Ketamine Infusion Therapy
Alpha Infusions is the Verde Valley area’s only ketamine infusion therapy center.
If you’ve ever suffered from any type of debilitating or chronic condition in your life that seems resistant to typical treatments, you may feel like you’ve run out of possible answers or that there is no relief for you.
KETAMINE SCIENCE
Ketamine is one of the biggest breakthroughs to come along in decades, treating a number of mood and chronic pain conditions. Think of your brain’s neural pathways as a series of streets. Certain disorders and recurring pain make it difficult for the brain to repair roadblocks or potholes that may develop without the side effects that traditional medications can cause. At low doses, ketamine has been proven to redevelop the neural pathways in the brain without those side effects.
Ketamine works by binding to those NMDA receptors, allowing glutamine to increase and stimulate the AMPA receptor. Together, this leads the brain to create new pathways and synapses that support the healing of past injuries or illnesses. This process is believed to affect mood, thought patterns, and cognition positively.
One of the major benefits of Ketamine is that it works very quickly and continues to work even after it’s been metabolized by the body. Typical antidepressants need weeks to build up in your body to start working, while Ketamine can work in a matter of hours.
Where other typical treatments of addiction, and mental or mood disorders have failed to produce adequate results, Ketamine Infusion Therapy has proven to offer true and lasting relief as an effective treatment option.
Proven Effective Treatment
If you battle chronic depression, addiction, anxiety, fibromyalgia, PTSD, obsessive compulsive disorder, bipolar disorder, Ketamine Infusions are proving to be a very successful and effective treatment option that can provide lasting relief.
Ketamine works by blocking a group of receptors in your brain known as NMDA receptors. In normal conditions, these receptors interact with neurotransmitters such a glutamine (which is important for memory and emotions), to rev up your neurons.
This is how the brain, and these receptors, are intended to function. However, if these neurons stay in this state for too long, they begin to die off, leading to a chain of events that can result in these persistently debilitating conditions.
Ketamine Infusion Therapy Benefits & Treatments
- Improves Chronic Anxiety
- Bipolar Disorder
- Depression
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- PTSD
- Postpartum Depression
- Drug & Alcohol Addictions
- Suicidal Or Negative Thoughts Patterns
KETAMINE FAQ
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT KETAMINE THERAPY
WHAT IS KETAMINE?
Ketamine was FDA approved for use as a dissociative anesthetic and analgesic medication in the 1970s. In the 1990s, researchers discovered that ketamine had impressive antidepressant effects. When used as an antidepressant, ketamine works on the brain’s glutamate system to repair damaged neural connections and encourage the brain to create new, healthy neural pathways.
WHAT CONDITIONS CAN BE TREATED WITH KETAMINE?
Ketamine is effective for the treatment of such psychiatric conditions as severe depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), bipolar disorder, and postpartum depression.
IS KETAMINE ADDICTIVE?
Ketamine is not a physically addictive substance. When abused recreationally, ketamine can result in psychological addiction. For the treatment of depression and certain pain conditions, ketamine is administered in a clinical setting by a medical professional—and at much lower doses than what would be used in a recreational setting. Furthermore, patients are not provided with a take-home prescription for ketamine, which dramatically reduces the chance of abuse or misuse.
HOW DOES ALPHA INFUSIONS KETAMINE TREATMENT WORK?
WHAT DOES KETAMINE FEEL LIKE?
Every patient will experience ketamine infusions differently. Many patients feel pleasantly relaxed during their infusions. Some experience mild, non-threatening hallucinations, while other feel drowsy. Generally, the side effects of ketamine wear off within 2-hours of an infusion. We don’t recommend that patients drive or operate heavy machinery on the day of their infusion.
DOES KETAMINE HAVE ANY SIDE EFFECTS?
The most common side effects of ketamine include: hallucinations, nausea and vomiting, increased saliva production, dizziness, blurred vision, increased heart rate and blood pressure during the infusion, out-of-body experience during the infusion, and changes in motor skills. Uncommon side effects include: rash; double vision; pain and redness in the injection site -Increased pressure in the eye; and jerky arm movements resembling a seizure. For a complete list of side effects, please ask a member of our clinical team.
