These snowflakes just piss me off. A few years ago one of them had the nerve to say to me "get out of my way old man, you're in my way" at work.
He thinks he's smart enough to do what I do and know as much as I do about the bank's systems. I'm not in his way anymore, he got fired shortly before his probationary hire period was up. Apparently he pissed everyone off. :-)
Help is on the way re ketamine. Treating neuropathy is still currently an off-label use, but, the synthetic ketamine, Esketamine is moving down the track.
Ketamine has been around so long (1960s) that the patent expired long ago. There is no incentive to bring it to market now.
The Esketamine nasal spray was slammed through on the fast track through the FDA last year as an “Emergency Drug” due to its efficacy in suicide prevention. (God bless the Trump administration). Antidepressants can take as long as 4-6 weeks to work, *if* they’re going to work at all. Sometimes you have to do a trial and error thing.
Nobody has that luxury with actively suicidal patients. Ketamine works in *hours*, not weeks.
The IV version will follow and insurance won’t be able to get out of paying.
Ketamine saved me about five more years of trauma therapy, but, I’m told my case is unusual. Most people don’t get super chatty like I do, nor do they have clear, sharp recall decades old events. I chose to have a therapist sit with me for two hour sessions which jacked the price by an extra $200. But, I was able to pull maximum benefit out of the sessions.
Funny thing, I initially decided to try it for neuropathic itching. I would actually swap that for pain, I think.
There was a veteran treating at the clinic who had lost an arm. He was being treated for pain from phantom limb syndrome. How fascinating is that?