When you’re struggling with a mental health issue, you can feel awfully alone, even though you’re anything but alone. Consider this — 1 in 4 adults in the United States has a diagnosable mental health condition in any given year.
For decades, treatment options for the more common mental health conditions, such as depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), have largely been limited to psychotherapy and antidepressants, with mixed results.
Today, we have a new approach with ketamine and, even better, more ways of delivering this novel treatment, including via lozenges you can take from the comfort of your own home.
As our name implies, Dr. Neal Taub and the team here at Charlotte Ketamine Center offer ketamine therapy, providing much-needed hope for people who suffer from mental health issues and who’ve been unsuccessful using traditional treatments.
Not only do we focus on this new treatment method, but we’re also constantly working to make it more accessible to our patients. That’s where the at-home ketamine lozenges come in. Let’s take a look.
More people are turning to ketamine for many reasons, starting with the fact that the drug works quickly in your brain. When introduced, ketamine immediately stimulates glutamate production, encouraging healthier communication networks between your brain cells.
The creation of new neural pathways steers you toward more positive thoughts, which can help greatly with issues like depression and anxiety, in which doom and hopelessness can reign.
Furthermore, ketamine also shows great promise in helping people with trauma and PTSD. For example, in one study, patients with PTSD who took ketamine alongside psychotherapy experienced less reactivation of traumatic memories.
While we’re still studying how ketamine affects the brain, we know the drug provides new hope for scores of patients as it helps to reset the brain with healthier neural networks.
There are several delivery methods when it comes to ketamine, and we’re pleased to offer one you can manage on your own — low-dose ketamine lozenges.
If you’re a good candidate for ketamine lozenges, which we can figure out during a telemedicine appointment, we can provide you with a prescription that any compounding pharmacy can fill.
You can then pick up your ketamine lozenges or have the pharmacy deliver them directly, eliminating the need to come to our practice.
These low-dose ketamine lozenges allow you to continue improving your mental health at home without the need for in-person ketamine IV infusions.
Note that you might need to start with higher-dose infusions to stop a downward spiral in your mental health. But you can then maintain great results with at-home lozenges taken according to our instructions.
To learn more about whether low-dose ketamine lozenges are a good approach for addressing your depression, anxiety, or PTSD, call our office in Charlotte, North Carolina, at 704-519-6918 to schedule a ketamine consultation.
