Posted by Deniseuk190466 on December 13, 2007, at 14:48:09
I have been seriously thinking about trying to get on a Ketamine trial.
I was looking on clinicaltrials.gov and found two trials going on, one for Ketamine and rilozole and another for a NMDA Antagonist similiar to Ketamine but which treats a particular subset of NMDA (something like that anyway).
I wrote off expressing my interest and a lady from the United States very kindly rang me and spent an hour talking me through what would happen.
My only concerns about doing this trial, aside from the fact that I would be in another country on my own for at least five weeks is that I would have to come off all medication and I think it would kill me (so to speak). Thinking about it, I would have to stop Seroxat over a one or two week period, then I would have to be completely off medication for another 2 weeks and then it could be another 2 weeks (depending on whether or not I get the placebo first) before I would try the Ketamine. I just wish they'd let me take a small amount of Zyprexa just at least 8 days before the actual trial starts just to see me through the last 7 days (Zyprexa helps me for about 7 days.
Also, I can't understand why they don't want people who have not previously responded to Riluzole to be on the trial. I thought the idea of the trial was to see if the effects of the Riluzole prolongued the affects of the Ketamine. I could understand it if the trial was just to test whether Riluzole was successful for treating depression but it's not it's really to test Riluzole out using Ketamine as a jump start.
Anybody have any ideas? Also could Ketamine do any permanent damage (Depression wise) that's the last thing I need.
Kind regards.....Denise
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