Good news medically

[crowdog66]

With thanks to 7_league_boots who emailed it to me:

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=49084

People with treatment-resistant depression experienced symptom relief in as little as two hours with a single intravenous dose of ketamine, a medication usually used in higher doses as an anesthetic in humans and animals, in a preliminary study. Current antidepressants routinely take eight weeks or more to exert their effect in treatment-resistant patients and four to six weeks in more responsive patients - a major drawback of these medications. Some participants in this study, who previously had tried an average of six medications without relief, continued to show benefits over the next seven days after just a single dose of the experimental treatment, according to researchers conducting the study at the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Mental Health.

If this pans out, how wonderful it would be.

Comments

[elaryn.livejournal.com]

Here's to hope! :-) As always, you are in my thoughts and prayers, and I hope this new treatment works out - not only for you, of course, but for everyone else who suffers from treatment resistant depression.