Ducky,

In response to your question about taking meds. I am currently taking no medications. In the past I have tried wellbutrin, prozac, gabapentin, to name a few. At the current time I am on a regular dose of green tea, and have cut out as much dairy out of my meals as I can. I tried cutting out the bread but it was a difficult task along with dairy. The green tea does have caffeine but i steep it three time's and supposedly reduced the caffeine 80 percent. This last mth i've gotten away from the green tea and do not feel as well. Since ets my body retains alot of fluid. The Green tea helps me as a diuretic as well with fatigue.

I was not an avid reader but could quite easily speed read prior to ets. Being able to write on the drop of a hat, freestyling was a talent I guess you could say as well.

And I will leave off with the ketamine issue again, no i'm not making any money on it lol. Did some more reading on it earlier today and it has many different facets to it. It is helping with depression, pain, thermoregulatory issue's. I just do not see why none of us can seem to get our hands on it other than sorebluearm. Perhaps some clinical trials to be setup for ets patients.

Just a lill blurby from the wikipedia article on ketamine

There are two treatment modalities, the first consist of a low dose ketamine infusion of between 25-90 mg per day, over five days either in hospital or as an outpatient. This is called the awake technique. Open label, prospective, pain journal evaluation of a 10-day infusion of intravenous ketamine (awake technique) in the CRPS patient concluded that "A four-hour ketamine infusion escalated from 40-80 mg over a 10-day period can result in a significant reduction of pain with increased mobility and a tendency to decreased autonomic dysregulation".[37]

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Edited 2 times by Archangel31 Feb 14 08 2:51 PM.