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Originally Posted by theMatrix777
Below in another reply you mentioned you had ketamine treatments. Did they work for you at all? How long ago was that? If I was you, that is the first place I would look at as at least part of the cause of your current problem. It is a strong and powerful medicine and the side effects are known to last for a very long time. Ketamine can cause hallucinations and other side effects long after the treatments.
Since they stopped when your doctor stopped one of your meds, apparently he knew what caused it. What did he say?
thematrix777
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Hi Matrix,
The ketamine treatments were for my RSD, they orginally helped a great deal and then my rsd came back full body unfortunately. i still receive booster infusion every two-three months to keep the pain level down- so they assist. However I require strong daily pain meds as well. I have a bad case of rsd- they are all bad- mine is particuarly stubborn -so my doctor tells me.
The nurse who was putting in the picc line felt it might be a medication mix that was causing my hallucinations. Not my doctor. speciafically zanaflex, mixed with the Opana er,which i had recently started taking instead of bacolfen. When I reported what the nurse said to my Pain management doctor he did nto agree- but I went back to the bacolfen anyway with his blessing and the hallucinations stopped. I am not having hallucinations now.. The seizures are seperate from them.
Regarding long term effects of ketamine i have never been able to find an article on that but would be very interested if you could direct me?
My rsd specialist said when I inquired about the seizures that it was over excited motor neurons in my spinal column and brain causing the problem. To me the feel like full blown seizures- however I say that haivng never had seizures before. Thank you for your help. Cz