Hi Mark, As always Thank You so much for sharing this with us. Actually Good Morning America showed something similar to this last year. Mt Dr immediately told me about this procedure and he had also heard about this treatment at a seminar he attended. I do think for those that it works on, and the ones that can afford it, it's great, but of course like everything else, it doesn't help everyone. Like this article stated only 15 of the 30 patients that had undergone the coma induced treatment was relly relieved of their pain. Of course there is always hope that eventualy they will come up with something to benefit us all.

Thank You so much for all of your helpful topics..

Love ya,
Janet

Just some info on what I've been able to find out about long term or longer term success with Ketamine.

My doctor has been looking into this but is extremely concerned about the fact that the doctors he has talked to tell him him that the long term success they are finding is among the age groups younger than 25 who are still (luckily for them) in the acute stages of RSD. Now I'm not saying that those of us older won't have or don't have success... I'm just relaying what my doctor has found out. I don't understand why these results aren't readily available or why we mainly only hear of the successes and not the failure or lack of success of this treatment.

My thought along with my doctor's is... this is a lot of money to spend for what he calls a less than 50-50 shot at it working for someone who's over 25... I know there are no guarantee's in medicine but ideally, I'd like a little more research and a little more success with this treatment before I can think of shelling out the 27 to 50 thousand plus on this. (By no means to I have this kind of money.... but if this were my last hope and there were greater numbers of success... I'd beg and borrow to have this done....those are the $$ amounts my doctor has been quoted by the doctors here and in Germany.)

I have to add that I am extremely happy that this treatment does have success for some!!! I wouldn't wish this monster on my worst enemy!!!

Abasaki, thank you for posting this.. I didn't know what the price amount was, but am glad to see that your Dr told you an approximate.. There is no way I could ever afford that. and even if I did have insurance I guarantee they wouldn't cover it. I do hope and pray every day that they come up with something to help all of us, and like you, I would not wish this on my worst enemy either. I have to say there are a few people who don't think there is such a thing as RSD that I would like to experience it for at least 3 hours.. I know that sounds cruel, but you know that unless you have been cursed with this disease you cannot fathom the pain.

I am so glad to be here with all of you great folks.. You really do make my days brighter.

Love to all,
Janet