has it been a problem with sex after the ketamine procedure.asking because its tough enough with all the meds now,finally have a grasp on it now with this procedure coming up wondered if it would set me back even further.

Nice to know I'm not alone as having that as one of my chief concerns.

I may be coming from a different approach as i'm unsure if you are male or female but the meds do wreak havoc on sex and I'm praying that's something that will improve after the ketamine. 3 more weeks to go for me but I guess you'll be first. Let us know!
Dawn

Assuming I get clearance from a glaucoma specialist at USC, I'm probably going to do the ten day, out-patient infusions of 200 mg. over a four hour period.

Just exactly what side effects - for men and women - are you guys talking about? And how long do they last?

Thanks,
Mike

I have done 3 - 5 day inpatient ketamine infusions and honestly never had any issues on that level after. You do need a certain amount of time to recover from the procedure but we never experienced any problems.

Hope this helps.

Gabbycakes

thanks,LOL

mike, thats why i asked because im not sure have'nt had the procedure yet, but i know with a lot of the meds doctors prescribes, having so much can be tough on sex assuming you are even in the mood from your condition

I guess the thing with ketamine is that once its left your system, and the quoted figure is 72 hours, it's gone. Compare that to most meds, where when you're on them, you're generally trying to keep a relatively constant level of the drug in your system at all times.

Then again, thinking back at least 30 years, it was never all that easy to get it on when I was directly under the influence of any substance intended to put me in a "dissociative state." Perhaps other other folks had more luck in that department. Dunno.

Mike

Hi All,

I just wanted to make a comment about the long lasting side effects after having a ketamine infusion. We all have heard about the hallucinations, I refer to them as heavy, heavy deep, deep dreaming I really never felt hallucinations. Prior to this nightmare I was a normal sleeper remembered a slight dream here and there, except when I was a child I used to sleep walk which makes my next point interesting I think. Since all the ketamine and after the first 2 weeks and then you start your boosters you are basically back to normal and with less pain, headaches, sleeping better, the burning has stopped blal.blah. The one thing that did get worse and not in a bad way is that as my husband puts it, you have a whole live of you own at night when you sleep, I talk, full conversations, I dream extremely heavy and they are not nightmares or scary but it's a whole episode not every night but a lot. As I mentioned above I used to sleep walk as a child so I always must have had some kind of sleep issue but I grew out of that by 10-11 and never experienced this type of dreaming until the ketamine, it prompted my memory of my sleep walking immediately. I just thought that was interesting. Please don't read to much into it.

gabbycakes

Since going up to 200 mg ketamine boosters a month or so ago, (still considered an a pretty low dose), I've started having intense dreams. Like I have never had before. Most of them are medically related and really scary and bloody. I hate it. They seem to be related to the ketamine. I don't get them every night, just once in a while.

Really intersting Sandy. Sorry to here yours are bloody and scary.

How are you feeling?

Gabbycakes