There are numerous pharmaceutical drugs that are marketed to treat depression. Unfortunately, these pills (antidepressants) can take weeks or months to take effect and nearly half of patients don’t find relief at all. If you are feeling down or have a history of major depressive disorder and you are not satisfied or tolerating traditional pharmaceutical therapy, we invite you to consider ketamine.
Creating Happiness
If you are like most people, you consider happiness as a mood or emotion. However, happiness is associated with a natural biological reaction. There are chemicals in your brain that can foster sadness or happiness. How do you get the “happy chemicals” to ramp up?
Did you know that you can trigger your own brain to produce more happy chemicals such as serotonin, dopamine and endorphins. Activities like spending time outdoors, exercising, listening to music and getting a massage foster happy feelings and thoughts and help outweigh your feelings of sadness. Unfortunately, not everyone is able to beat depression on their own.
Ketamine for Depression
If you continue to struggle with feelings of depression despite your changes in lifestyle or other traditional therapies, ketamine infusion may be right for you. Ketamine treats depression by blocking NMDA brain receptors to induce rapid antidepressant effects within the brain. The NMDA receptor has been connected to several neurological and neuropsychiatric diseases including Alzheimer’s, epilepsy, chronic pain syndrome, schizophrenia, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease and major depression.
Ketamine is an anesthetic medication that is administered intravenously in a controlled setting. At Wellness Infusion Specialists, we have a team of board certified anesthesiologists that perform IV infusions in a way that protects your safety and comfort at every step. Since Ketamine can be delivered straight to your bloodstream, you can achieve much faster results compared to oral anti-depressant medications. Finally, side effects are minimal with Ketamine infusion, which is a valued advantage for patients who have been unable to tolerate antidepressant drugs due to nausea, fatigue, weight gain or other side effects. With Ketamine, you don’t have to trade in your sadness for other disruptive symptoms to get relief.
Whether you are having suicidal thoughts or simply feeling down on a regular basis, Ketamine infusion therapy may be your answer to a more positive outlook on life. Want to learn more about how Ketamine therapy works for depression? Please call our Pearland clinic today.
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