Hi!

I'm coming in late to the conversation, but I wanted to let you know that the inpatient hospital stays are actually much better than the outpatient infusion clinics in that while you are receiving the ketamine over a 24h period it's allowing it to "stack" in your system and not allowing your body to take a break from it, like you would if you did the outpatient infusions (your body would take an 18h break in between each infusion). My 12-year-old does the ketamine outpatient infusions 4 days a week (for 4 hours) every 4 weeks and has done the hospital inpatient infusions 5 times now (every 4 months). She also takes ketamine orally twice a day in the form of a lozenge that was specially compounded for her at one of the pharmacies here. Perhaps that's something that the doctor could think of for you as well? Oh - we are in San Antonio, TX. Our doctor is Donald Bacon. He's a pain management specialist/anesthesiologist and works with RSD/CRPS patients all the time. He has a ketamine infusion room in his office - the only one in the city.

I hope this helps you!!! :grouphug

Catherine