Hi EvaSoholm,
I've been a patient of Dr. S. and I can tell you he does not do ketamine comas. I believe the FDA in the United States has not approved the comas here...only infusions. He does either 5 day inpatient at Hahnemann Hospital (not a great hospital as I had a bad time with their icu) or he does the 10 day outpatient infusions too (He also does Lidocaine IVs as well and is doing the IVIG program as well). As far as comas...he sends you to Germany or Mexico which I heard Germany has not been doing for a long time(I believe a patient died there and it was stopped asap) and someone here just said Mexico is not doing it either so I don't know of anywhere doing it now. It seems like alot of the "major" diseases get lots of press and many different treatments but for us folks with rsd it seems we are always left behind. Hope this helps. Keep praying and try to stay positive.
kathy d
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Originally Posted by EvaSoholm
I will try to contact Dr. Schwartzman's office, but unfortunately I don't think he can do anything about the coma, because he previously send his patient to Dr. Cantú in Mexico, and its Dr. Cantú that I have talked to.
I have doubts about whether Dr. Schwartzman's 5 day inpatient higher dose treatment will work. In Germany with Dr. Rohr I got a ketamine infusion treatment 24 hour a day for 18 days, but the pain returned after 3 weeks, and I have also had several 4 day/4 hours ketamine infusions here in Denmark, but they didn't work a very long time. I'm afraid that my last options is the coma.
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