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Originally Posted by nigel ep3 05
So did your wife do the 5 day treatment and did she do it through the Hickman line? If so, at what stage did she do it and was it successful?
If I remember Dr. Rohr did mention that I won't be doing the high dosage but I will be on the ketmaine for 10 days (5 days at my level and the other days increasing & decreasing). Maybe Mike can confirm whether this is the 5 day technique or slightly stronger? Will also look into this 10 day out patient method that Mike shown us it proves better results. Just puzzled how Dr. Rohr hasn't recommended it to me and has said this treatment is my best chance
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Nigel -
It's entirely possible that
no one is doing the out patient treatment in Europe right now. The only possible person who I could think of to contact would be another of Dr. Schwartman's collaborators, Ralph-Thomas Kiefer, MD, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Deutschland.
And as far as the numbers are concerned, my guess is that Dr. Rohr intends to give you pretty good ride, if it takes approximately 2.5 days to get up to cruising speed and another 2.5 to come down. Trust me, this is NOT the standard 5-day inpatient ketamine infusion that's largely offered to patients in the US. Put another way, it sounds like you are in good hands, especially for someone who may still be in the "intermediate" stage of the disease. I would take the deal.
One thing though, and this is applicable to any ketamine patient - and may not be too hard in your case - you should plan to spend the 3 - 4 weeks immediately after the procedure in as stress free environment as possible, so as to allow it to "set." It is not, for instance, the time to resume classes at university.
Mike