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Ketamine Treatment near Guilford, CT
If you’re lucky enough to live in Guilford, CT you’re lucky enough. From Lake Quonnipaug to Chaffinch Island, or Jacobs Beach to the Town Green, there are unlimited places to have a good time. That is … unless you suffer with a psychiatric disorder that hasn’t improved with medicines or treatments. If that’s the case, you may need extraordinary ketamine treatment near Guilford, CT to relieve those crippling symptoms so you can live and enjoy your life. The best possible outcomes from ketamine treatment happen with Lori Calabrese, M.D.
When you never know how you’ll wake up or what frame of mind you’ll be in, it’s tough to maintain a stable and productive life. One day you wake up angry and everything makes you want to throw something… or maybe you just go ahead and throw it.
Another day, you wake up heartbroken, deeply sad, with overwhelming sorrow, and nothing seems to help you feel better. Then another day, you may wake up full of energy and plans, enthusiasm that turns into poor judgment and not-so-great decisions.
The person who acts on all those erratic feelings sort of mellows out and disappears, then you’re left with all the fallout of all that happened. It’s hard. Really hard.
It’s also tough to struggle with PTSD. Year in and year out, it’s awful when someone slaps you on the back in welcome and you want to put them in a headlock and take them out on the spot.
Or the person you’re dating makes a romantic move…and instead of surrendering into it, you want to scream and run.
Then, your fiancee glares because you went over the budget, but that glare takes you back to the days when the ex would glare then slap you hard. So you duck. And tremble. And you never know when these extreme reactions are going to happen.
Lots of people envy you that you live in such a beautiful place as Guilford, CT, but your own symptoms make it impossible to enjoy all your hometown has to offer.
The Suffering of Psychiatric Disorders Affects Every Aspect of Life
No matter what disorder you bear, you need relief. And when years of taking antidepressants has resulted in no improvement, you grow weary of the fight…the misery…and you may just want it all to end.
Then, you hear about ketamine treatment.
Dr. Calabrese was educated at Hopkins and trained at Harvard and Mass General in the top psychiatry residency program in the country. In all the years since, she has developed her practice to treat the most severely ill psychiatry patients who had never been relieved before by other medicines or treatments.
Her resourcefulness in combining key nutrients with medicines, strengthening the microbiome, and other approaches, resulted in better and better outcomes for her patients. She always searched for more and more effective treatments.
Ketamine Treatment for Depression Changes Everything
Then, along came ketamine treatment for depression. And not just depression, but ketamine for social anxiety, ketamine for bipolar disorder, ketamine for PTSD, OCD, and suicidal thinking. The more ketamine is given the opportunity, the more it shows off its power to bring torment into remission.
But, there are reports of some doctors having far better results than others.
One reason is that some doctors are offering ketamine without the benefit of latest findings. They may give this medicine by IM injection…or even by intranasal spray or oral troches. Those routes are less effective because of the obstacles that interfere with ketamine’s reaching the brain systems that need it.
But another reason may be that many people setting up ketamine clinics to treat psychiatric disorders aren’t actually psychiatrists. So they offer a procedure only — for conditions they are not trained to treat — an infusion from a bag hung on a hook. Sometimes they let the medicine just flow to gravity, rather than in precisely measured tiny fractions that can help ensure optimal results.
For your best outcome, you need personalized ketamine treatment that’s based on your brain and your needs. Only a psychiatrist who understands the ketamine infusion experience and how to titrate the dose and rate to enhance your benefits from the medicine can accomplish this.
When a doctor allows ketamine to flow through an IV at a haphazard rate, it can be too slow and fail to create the effect that’s needed for response and remission. Or the medicine can flow too fast and overwhelm the patient’s brain.
For the most part, anesthesiologists who provide ketamine treatment for psychiatric disorders are working outside of their scope of practice. They’re simply not trained to diagnose or treat psychiatric disorders.
Some doctors provide single IM injections every few weeks — not well studied, and complicated by uncontrolled absorption. And perhaps doomed to not last due to the long intervals between injections.
When given as individual injections there is uncertainty about how much will reach the brain, and studies have shown individual doses of ketamine standing alone tend to not last much more than a week.
Why Pop-Up Ketamine Clinics Report Mediocre to Good Outcomes, But Not Outstanding
However, by using intravenous infusion (IV) and stacking at least 6 infusions 2 or 3 days apart, ketamine’s benefits last much longer.
And that’s where it gets tricky.
Anesthesiologists operate many of the ketamine pop-up clinics. So, they’re adept at placing IVs, and monitoring the patient’s blood pressure, heart rate, and respirations. These aspects fit well into the expertise of anesthesiologists and are within their scope of practice.
What Those Clinics Miss
Treating suicide, depression, bipolar disorder, PTSD, and severe anxiety disorders — because they are not within their scope of practice.
When a psychiatrist with deep expertise in this treatment modality provides your ketamine treatment, you have the benefit of someone who knows your symptoms inside and out, has worked with your kind of suffering for decades, and knows what to do with psychiatric disorders.
INNOVATIVE PSYCHIATRY can Restore You to Your Best Self
At Innovative Psychiatry, we evaluate your psychological response to the infusion treatments, understand what those responses mean, and titrate the dose and rate of your medication to ensure the best possible outcome for you.
Certainly, not ALL patients achieve remission and enjoy it long-term. But many do, when all aspects of the infusion skill are practiced by experienced psychiatrists with the right deep expertise.
Others require boosters, but those booster infusions may not be necessary for 6 months or a year or more.
Still others show no response initially, and go home disappointed. Then to their surprise, they find that ketamine’s benefits bloom within them a few months later. Who knew? And they too enjoy renewed and rejuvenated life. Ketamine treatment is full of wonderful surprises.
When you need ketamine treatment near Guildford, CT for your psychiatric disorders, choose the most skilled, conscientious, and talented psychiatrist you can find for outstanding outcomes.
Lori Calabrese, M.D. at Innovative Psychiatry in South Windsor, CT provides ketamine treatment near Guilford, CT with the excellence and expertise that’s necessary for a whole and fulfilling life.
For more information about Dr. Calabrese and outstanding outcomes with ketamine treatment, call 860.648.9755 or send an email.