4 Ways Psychedelics Can Positively Transform Women’s Mental Health
Research
Jessika Lagarde, the co-founder of Women on Psychedelics, explores how various psychoactive substances can treat mental health issues including depression, eating disorders, PTSD, and addiction.
Thank you for sharing your experience. From everything I’ve read, it seems that dosing and administration are key. I’ve found some articles that say that the shot or IV of ketamine is the best method for ketamine-assisted therapy.
I am having a different experience, with a different provider. I started not quite 4 weeks ago and I’m taking daily low dose ketamine and it is making a great difference for me when nothing else has for decades!
I do IV-route infusion ketamine for severe (chronic, suicidal) depression and I am getting ready to take lozenges to extend my dose on the maintenance phase. My understanding is that ketamine efficacy relies on establishing and then maintaining a therapeutic level which metabolizes out of your system gradually. Maybe it wasn’t effective because an initial level wasn’t established. I usually feel a significant improvement for 4 weeks and then two at a reduced level with effort and lifestyle changes. But I’m interested in using low dose more frequent doses as a possible way to sustain the length of the treatment.