Published CT Psychiatrist Offers Ketamine Treatment to Stop Suicidal Thoughts and Bring Severe Depression to Remission
Charm, character, and prosperity define this lovely town that sits along the Long Island Sound next to Bridgeport. Fairfield CT enjoys the best of all worlds: small town atmosphere, recreation and beauty of the beach, a thriving economy, excellent schools…and deep historic roots.You have to ask what’s NOT to love…? Then, you might want to stop and consider those who suffer from severe affective disorders without effective treatment. And…it turns out the best solution to treatment resistant disorders like these is ketamine treatment near Fairfield CT. And it’s offered with exceptional care and expertise by Lori Calabrese, M.D. in South Windsor CT.
Now you’ve likely heard of ketamine treatment since 2015 or more recently, if you suffer from unrelieved depression, PTSD, social anxiety, and the like. But, while it has dramatically helped 65-70% of people who’ve received it and suffer from treatment resistant disorders, what about the rest?
It became clearer and clearer there must have been something overlooked in the administration of ketamine, that the outcomes weren’t more widespread.
Better, more targeted and personalized methods needed to be found in the administration of this medicine that was outshining every other medication on the market for these disorders. And one Connecticut doctor has contributed to a solution. There is more to this story, but first some details about ketamine treatment.
Ketamine Treatment near Fairfield CT
A dissociative anesthesia medicine FDA approved for sedation in 1970, ketamine began being studied for depression and other affective disorders at the dawn of the 21st century. By 2015, psychiatrists offered it to those severely depressed patients who suffered in spite of other treatment.
Most, but not all, of these patients experienced a rapid and robust response to the 6 infusions. Neuroscience researchers discovered that ketamine worked in the brain in several ways.
To restore and rebuild synapses (brain cell connections), tamp down the cell bursting in the lateral habenula so you can experience reward, and restore cell connections in the amygdala, the hippocampus, and other brain structures, ketamine spreads wide to help patients feel joy again.
While researchers and psychiatrists continue to look for clue to helping more people respond to ketamine.
With that said, no other medicine for depression has ever helped as many people with severe depression. It’s nothing short of extraordinary.
A Better Way to Offer Ketamine Treatment near Fairfield CT
Still, a CT psychiatrist developed and uses a method of administering ketamine treatment to her patients in her private practice that has increased the effectiveness of this treatment with a growing percentage.
Originally, a protocol was established for ketamine treatment that included 6 infusions over 2-3 weeks. The dosage used was 0.5mg/kg over 40 minutes.
A doctor who had built her large practice over the years as a place to get help when nothing else worked… she had years of experience tweaking and titrating and combining and comparing medicines, nutrients, timing, and schedules to find ways to better help her patients.
When ketamine emerged, she applied a similar gauntlet to the administration of this medicine to help more of her patients. Since every brain is unique, it stands to reason that dosages, rates, and frequency of these infusions should be personalized to each individual brain. Just makes good sense.
So if someone doesn’t improve with 0.5mg/kg, she titrates their dose until they show a dissociative response. So you might receive .0.7mg/kg, or 0.9mg/kg…and she might decide your response is fast, or that it’s delayed until the 4th or 5th infusion. She may determine you need more than 6 infusions, or she might not.
Expertise in Gauging Response to Ketamine Treatment near Fairfield CT
The difference in her approach has been life changing for most of those she treats.
Because of her efforts, she saw higher and higher percentages of severely ill patients experiencing not just relief, but remission. And with gusto!
This psychiatrist is Lori Calabrese, M.D., at Innovative Psychiatry in South Windsor CT.
Educated at Wellesley and Harvard, and trained at Massachusetts General, Dr. Calabrese rose as a leader among her peers then, and remains so today.
She also published a paper in a peer reviewed journal detailing the outcomes of a sizable cohort from her practice. These were given serial IV ketamine infusions to stop suicidal thoughts, avoid hospitalization, or a trip to the Emergency Department.
Her work has been enthusiastically received at a variety of medical conferences across the US and the UK.
For your own treatment and that of your family, you don’t want to play Russian Roulette. Dr. Calabrese’s expertise with ketamine treatment near Fairfield CT is little more than an hour’s drive away in South Windsor CT.
It’s a no brainer!
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For more information about Lori Calabrese, M.D., or about ketamine treatment, call (860) 648-9755 or email info@loricalabresemd.com.