Anybody tried Ketamine or Effexor-Remeron

[Pilule]

Has anybody tried these?

I'm looking for ideas for my shrink for me to try because he seems to have ran out of them.

[Frame]

I haven't Pilule, but I feel like someone should respond; so all I have found is that Ketamine is not an antidepressant but a anesthetic used mainly on animals.

[Pilule]

Frame,

It's been found that Ketamine, in low dose, relieves depression, on some patients, in a matter of hours, and the effect can last up to a week. It is administered intravenously. It is also available in the form of a pill.
It's not available in a drugstore in Quebec but I found a pharmacist that makes some for palliative patients, so I sent my shrink investigating but he can't prescribe it to me because it's not approved for mental illness in Canada.
He also went to a seminar at Harvard, and they say that the results are not conclusive. There is a lot of trial going on, in the US, on relieving depression with Ketamine. There are some in Canada also, I gave my name for one of these trial, but I didn't meet the criteria. It seems that people suffering from depression have periods where they are not depressed. It never happened to me so that's why they didn't take me. What the hell do they know....

In palliative care, Ketamine is used to relieve pain, so I'm sure if I convinced my shrink that I'm in "terrible pain", he might find a way to prescribe some to me. We'll see what's next.

If you Google "Ketamine depression" you'll find tons or articles on the supject.

[Pilule]

Frame,

The combination of Effexor-Remeron seem to be promising also. They call it California rocket fuel.

My shrink is on vacation for 10 weeks so I'm trying to find as much as I can, on depression, to make him some suggestions for when he comes back.