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Yet another drug headline with ketamine in the news lately, after a recent study in Bristol (Mason, et al, 2010) found that some users are suffering long-term bladder damage - a few even needing their bladders replaced at the tender age of twenty.
A Class C drug in the UK (or Schedule III in the US), ketamine is not generally seen to be one of the more harmful illegal drugs. The evidence to date seemed to show ketamine to be a relatively safe drug when coming from pure, pharmaceutical grade vials. Originating as a liquid, ketamine is usually 'cooked' into a crystalline powder which can be snorted like cocaine, although heavier users prefer to use the liquid form for intramuscular injections, as would be given in a medical setting.
Ketamine is widely stereotyped as a 'horse tranquilizer'. Actually ketamine is an anesthetic that has been used in both human and veterinary medicine since the 1960s (although less so in humans today due to some patients' negative reactions to hallucinations or 'emergence reactions' as the medical community calls them).
In much smaller (recreational) doses, ketamine can have paradoxical stimulatory and dissociative effects. Some users take small 'bumps' up the nose when out clubbing - others take a larger dose to find themselves in the famed 'k-hole', a dissociated state where one can have out-of-body and near-death experiences, or seemingly travel to other mystical and magical places.
While ketamine is generally associated with the dance and rave scene, at these higher doses ketamine is safest taken at home, in a familiar environment to offset the possible dangers of being in a dissociative state in public surroundings. Many taking ketamine fall into the 'psychonaut' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychonautics) category, like this user in a UK study on ketamine use (Muetzelfeldt, et al, 2008), who stated that ketamine allowed "new ways of thinking and an understanding of the mind/body question which 3 years of a philosophy degree could not reach."
There is some interesting potential for ketamine use in exploring consciousness and success has been documented using ketamine to treat alcoholism (http://www.eleusis.us/resource-center/references/kpt10yrs.php) and depression (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7953967/Ketamine-is-magic-drug-for-depression.html). What doesn't seem to be properly investigated is the extent to which ketamine is harmful to the body, and in what quantities it becomes so.
Reading through frequent ketamine users' discussions and reports online, aside from the common bladder complaints, there is recurring talk of what have been mysteriously termed 'k-cramps' - a kind of severe gastric pain. As the 2008 UK study cited above states:
"The classification of ketamine-associated ulcerative cystitis has recently been established, however the etiology and treatments of 'K-cramps' are still unknown. Nevertheless, it seems to be a prevalent symptom which may represent a broader public health concern if the use of ketamine continues to increase."
Unaddressed by the medical community at large, here's one user's description of his 'k-cramps':
"Ketamine causes ulcers in high habitual dosing. There is little information on this on the internet but if you search just hard enough you will hear rumors of it. Well why isn't this a known fact? Well one would have to take ketamine daily or semi daily at least to get this nasty side effect.
I was unfortunate enough to have this happen on 3 separate occasions. The first time on a cruise ship, resulting in collapsing on the deck screaming for my life, which resulted in a diagnosis of 'gastritis' and a double shot of morphine. The second time at home which kept me pent in bed in the fetal position a few days. The third time in the snow in the midst of a rock scramble/ice climb, which made for a difficult, cold, and dire crawl two miles to safety.
From communication with 3 other habitual ketamine abusers this phenomena was familiar with all 3 and equally as gruesome. For the record all 3 consumed a minimum of 3-5 grams a week often more.
Now the physiology of it seems to be a disruption in the pH of the gall bladder causing an ungodly acid reflux. (literally feels like the acids going to eat clear through to your skin)
The way to end the agony is stop using ketamine till it subsides. It can take up to 3 days for it to go away with abstinence. Pink Bismuth (pepto bismol) was found to alleviate some of the pain, as did pain killers. Thought I would share as it took me nearly a year to figure it out, and found next to no information on the net about it."
(http://www.drugs-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=142771#ixzz1FSsYuaxe)
This is but one of dozens of reports of excruciating pain by ketamine users, accounts that can be found by googling 'k-cramps' and 'ketamine'........
Read the rest at:
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