Recent content by tontoe

CBD oil [no THC] is now available in the UK, but it's difficult to know where to start to find a decent product. Any UK members got any experiences/recommendations?

Well. A year on and I thought I'd report back. For me, this treatment didn't work - in fact made me feel quite a lot worse. That's not to say it doesn't/won't work for everyone, but for me it was not good. I wish I'd heeded the wise words from forum members. The dissociative effect of the first...

Well here goes the first stage *gulp*. I feel that, for me, the depressive element of PTSD is pretty severe. I have a consultation/assessment next week with the Psychiatrist from Oxford University who is running this programme. Will be interesting to discuss with him hear his views...

Sounds great. Congratulations :)

Thank you @joeylittle and @lostforgottensoul for useful information and thoughts. Much food for thought.

somehow, the link disappeared - here it is if anyone is interested Johnson & Johnson Is Reinventing The Party Drug Ketamine To Treat Depression

this interests me [a lot :) ]. Ketamine Infusion Therapy [I'll call it KIT for short] seems to be targeted differently in the U.S. and the U.K.; a Google search on "ketamine infusion PTSD" brings up a lot of hits - of mainly U.S. sites. I only looked at the first two pages, but nearly all of...

Thanks @joeylittle. Wise thoughts, and very helpful :) Depression seems to be a major feature of my PTSD, and is sometimes more incapacitating [e.g. having to take time off work, cancel seeing others] than PTSD symptoms; the difficulty for me sometimes is differentiating/separating the two -...

A friend of mine had some success with low-dose amytryptyline. It's often prescribed "off-label" here in the UK for what docs call "neuropathic pain" [i.e. pain for which the medics can't seem to isolate a cause]

Here's a link to the BBC News item that describes the project Ketamine depression treatment 'should be rolled out' - BBC News ...here in the UK the treatment seems to be focussed on depression, but my personal experience is that the symptoms of Major Depressive Disorder [MDD] are a [quite...

I think everyone gets the same as they're trialling the infusion. My doc has referred me, but I understand there's quite a waiting list, even though the course and psychiatrist assessment costs around 1000 USD. I'll report back if I go ahead.