Affordable Ketamine Therapy In Chicago - Balance Ketamine Clinic / Treatment Center
Depression affects more than 16 million Americans every year. While this condition is a challenge for everyone who must cope with it, there are many who cannot find relief in traditional treatments.
At Balance Ketamine Clinics Chicago, we take pride in offering the latest advances in mental health treatment and the highest levels of quality and patient safety. That’s why we are now offering ketamine infusions for treatment resistant depression.
The goal of the Balance Ketamine Wellness Center is to provide customized, high-quality care and counseling for people suffering from afflictions where ketamine infusions for depression have proved to be a successful treatment choice. While actively investigating the efficacy of Ketamine in treating additional conditions, ketamine infusion therapy has been shown to repair the neural pathways in your brain at low dose levels that have been weakened by deteriorating mental health.
What is IV ketamine therapy?
Ketamine is an anesthetic medication that blocks the NMDA receptor that has also been used as a recreational drug due to its dissociative properties. It is on the World Health Organization’s List of Essential Medicines because of its safety and efficacy for anesthesia. More recently, ketamine has been discovered as a safe and effective treatment for depression, and randomized controlled trials have shown rapid improvement in mood as well as reduction in suicidality compared to people who receive a placebo or another drug.
Is ketamine right for me?
Adults age 18 and over who suffer from severe depression and have not had success with traditional treatments for depression are eligible for ketamine treatment. Our comprehensive evaluation will include a medical history and basic lab results to ensure ketamine therapy is safe for you.
How does IV ketamine therapy work?
Several randomized controlled trials demonstrate that ketamine has made a significant improvement in depressive symptoms and suicidality over the course of the first 2 weeks. In fact, if ketamine does not work for you after 2 sessions, the data suggest it is unlikely to work at all. Several studies have looked at how long the effects of Ketamine last. This graph shows just one such study’s results.
Are there any risks associated with ketamine therapy?
For depression, the doses of ketamine used are much lower than the dose for anesthesia, making it relatively safe. That said, ketamine does carry the risk of changing your blood pressure and heart rate, which we will monitor throughout the ketamine infusion therapy. Longer term risks include urinary symptoms, cognitive impairment (with prolonged use), and substance use disorders. We will monitor for these symptoms throughout the treatment.
When considering ketamine treatment, patients want to know how much ketamine depression treatments cost. Ketamine therapy can be very effective in relieving the symptoms of treatment-resistant depression.
Ketamine for Other Psychological Conditions
Ketamine may also be useful as an adjunct in other severe and treatment-resistant conditions where first-line treatment has not been successful. These include anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) which is characterized by constant intrusive thoughts and accompanying repetitive behavior and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) with or without depressive symptoms.
What is the process?
Schedule.
Enjoy easy and hassle-free scheduling online or by simply clicking calling our office. Our customer service oriented staff are here to assist you and further explain any questions or address concerns you may have.
Consult.
We begin with a thorough medical evaluation and basic laboratory testing (for example, a low folate, low thyroid hormone levels may attenuate the effects of Ketamine).
Develop.
After documenting your height, weight, age, and medical treatment, our medical staff can prepare a personalized treatment plan to best serve you.
Administer.
Next, we’ll administer the medication through an IV infusion in your arm, wrist, or hand, which takes about 40-50 minutes. We’ll monitor you and make adjustments if necessary while keeping you comfortable and relaxed. IV’s are administered Tuesdays, Thursdays, & Saturdays; subject to changes.
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