How the ketamine infusion feels like?
During the treatment patient may experience feeling similar to receiving a short acting anesthetic agent for endoscopy procedure, or the effect of receiving gas at the dental office. Many patients reported feeling relaxed and had a pleasant sensation. Typically, ketamine infusion is used for its analgesic and anesthetic properties, but it has also been found to have antidepressant effects at lower doses.
The Ketamine infusion will be administered by a trained staff at the ketamine clinic. Your vital signs will be closely monitored during and shortly after the treatment. Since ketamine is a very safe drug, side effect usually limited to nausea, and mild sedation.
Your psychiatrist can adjust the dose of the treatment based on your response, and side effects from the infusion. Your psychiatrist also will meet with the patient before each infusion to evaluate the response, and discuss with the patient future treatments.
