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Vicc · 04-30-2007, 06:05 AM

Hi AnnBon,

I don't debate personal posts by forum members. I simply accept that when their experience contradicts everything I have learned, the person is accurately reporting what happened and I wish it would happen for others.

I do, however, take umbrage when someone implies I am less that rigidly honest. When you wrote My insurance company did pay for almost all of it.... I don't know way people give miss information. were you suggesting that I was offering misinformation?

I don't claim to have studied the policies of every insurance company in the country, but I don't recall anyone else here reporting that insurance paid for their ketamine "therapy". I know that this protocol is still considered experimental; an off-label use of the drug to treat a condition for which it was not evaluated or approved by the FDA, and I know that most insurance companies will not pay for experimental drugs or therapies in the absence of overwhelming material in the literature that it is both safe and efficacious.

If your insurance company is the exception and willing to pay for an unproved experimental drug and procedure, you got lucky. You will not find many insurance companies that will do that. I stand by my statement. Bring cash.

If you have had success with Schwartzmann or anyone else using ketamine infusions, I encourage you to tell others. It will help balance against the experiences of other forum members who have not been as fortunate. Informed decisions require information, and yours is good as anyone else'.

Finally: Dr. Stanton-Hicks in CLeveland has an excellant reputation and very up on all the most rescent technics, but I do not know him??? I am sorry you are having a hard time with him. I would try and reevaluate and try and mend the relationship.

If there were any recent techniques that had been shown to be effective, and S-H provided them, I would be first in line at his door. There aren't any, that's why we're all sitting around talking about RSD instead of doing something. And how does one mend a relationship with a "rude old man"? Why would someone want to?

When I act like a rude old man to someone, and I sometimes do, I usually write-off the relationship. My victim is usually offended and would expect me to initiate any mending, not him or her. Sometimes I can be rude and then feel bad about it. When that happens I try to mend the relationship by saying "I'm sorry"

Maybe you could write a note to S-H suggesting he say "I'm sorry I was a rude old man" to Katie. He might pay attention to you since you say nice things about him. He never listens to me, so there's no point in my writing.

Again, I stand by my words. Katie, get the Hell out of there...Vic