Ketamine Therapy for Fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain condition that causes pain all over the body, sleep problems, fatigue, and often emotional and mental distress. Researchers believe that fibromyalgia amplifies painful sensations by affecting the way your brain and spinal cord process painful and non-painful signals. This is called abnormal pain perception processing and people with fibromyalgia may be more sensitive to the same pain than people without it. While there are many unknows with fibromyalgia, it can be effectively treated and managed.
- Widespread pain, stiffness, and unwanted sensations all over the body
- Extreme fatigue that doesn’t improve with sleep
- Sensitivity to lights, noises, and temperature
- Problems with thinking, memory, and concentration
- Headaches, including migraines
- Depression
- Anxiety
The exact cause of fibromyalgia is still unknown, but one aspect that contributes to the condition has been identified. Chronic pain changes your brain and central nervous system, making them hypersensitive to pain. This hypersensitivity is called central sensitization which causes the body then sends pain signals from things that shouldn’t be painful. Ketamine infusions can help relieve pain and cause a reset in the brain helping overcome this problem.
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How Ketamine Can Help
- Rapidly relieve widespread body pain and headaches enabling you to think clearer and feel better.
- It is believed that ketamine can reset the receptors in the brain responsible for pain signals and reduce the central nervous systems sensitization associated with pain. This is effectively resetting how your body perceives pain.
- Ketamine helps foster a “rewiring” of new connections between newer, stronger synapses and restores damaged nerve connections allowing the nervous system to find better routes of communication.
- Imagine how a reset of your pain pathways and stronger nerve connections can reduce long-term pain.
- You can experience rapid relief on other fronts as many parts of the brain are targeted by ketamine. Ketamine causes an influx in the mood regulation and decision-making chemicals in the brain effectively treating depression and anxiety.
- Ketamine is also shown to increase neuroplasticity which allows the breaking of negative patterns in the nervous system as well as in our mindset and actions.
- Improves sleeping, helps with insomnia
- Alleviates your pain by prompting your brain to create new neural pathways, helping combat anxiety.
How Ketamine Works
Increases Neuroplasticity
Boosts neuroplasticity, which promotes the brain’s ability to adapt, heal, and learn new behaviors and patterns.
Stimulates Neural Pathways
Stimulates growth of neural pathways and disrupts thought loops that may contribute to anxiety and depression.
Regulates Emotions
Helps control emotions and creates an anti-anxiety effect helping to alleviate the need to continue to use.
Rapid Antidepressant Effect
Regulates glutamate, a vital neurotransmitter that helps us process thoughts and emotions.
A New You
Ketamine offers new hope for lasting life change for those suffering from mental health conditions.
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Determining the number of ketamine infusions required for chronic pain is not a one-size-fits-all answer; it varies significantly among individuals, influenced by diverse factors like the nature and severity of the pain, individual metabolism, and overall health. Some might find substantial relief after a single session, while others may require a series of infusions to experience a notable reduction in pain levels. Personalized treatment plans are crucial, calibrated meticulously to individual needs, pain thresholds, and responses to ensure optimal, enduring alleviation from chronic pain. The variability in response underscores the importance of a tailored approach to ketamine therapy, aiming for the most effective and lasting relief possible.
Ketamine has traditionally been used as an anesthetic and produces a strong analgesic effect in the body, particularly if your condition involves a neuropathic component. With low doses, it can provide substantial pain relief, but with several sessions, our patients report pain relief that lasts for weeks or even months.
Yes! Ketamine is considered a World Health Organization (WHO) essential medicine and is one of the most commonly used anesthetics in the world because of its safety profile. Ketamine is used world-wide because it easily administered without advanced equipment. Ketamine does not inhibit the respiratory or cardiac functions of a patient like most anesthetics.
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We started NeuConnections because we wanted to help people and we are committed to keeping our pricing as low as possible to make this life changing therapy accessible. Ketamine treatment is an investment in mental health. Allow this self-care to become an investment in your wellbeing; an investment that grows and pays dividends that last a lifetime.
The first step is an initial consultation with our patient care coordinator to answer any questions and discuss if treatment is right for you.
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