Ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic. It is one of the most physically damaging recreational drugs to have appeared on the scene. Whether pure or cut, it is highly toxic to the body and more and more Ketamine users are presenting themselves to Doctors or urologists with bladder, kidney and urinary tract problems.
In some users, symptoms appear as little as 4 months after first taking Ketamine, whereas other users who have been using regularly for anything between 2-6 years, are only just beginning to show the same symptoms. This is due to a number of factors; primarily, the biological make-up of each individual; the quality, quantity and regularity of ketamine taken and other factors such as general health, diet, flushing the body out with water, etc.
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KETAMINE CAUSES: (According to Recent Research) :
Bladder and Kidney failure (catheter, bladder rebuilt or removed, possible dialysis)
Loss of control; susceptibility to accidents
Impaired long-term memory & cognitive difficulties
Slurred speech
Muscle Wasting
Respiratory/ heart problems
Deficiency in motor coordination and impairment in executive function
Tolerance/ dependence
Acute disturbance in neural circuitry that leads to psychotic manifestations
Serotonin depletion
Depression
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parf handing out ketamine leaflets at waveform festival 2008
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PHYSICAL SIDE EFFECTS OF KETAMINE ABUSE
Many users are complaining of suffering with cystitis, pain and incontinence; some users are having catheters inserted to help with urinary problems; while others are having their bladders completely removed or rebuilt, from the damage caused by Ketamine.
HOW DOES KETAMINE CAUSE DAMAGE?
Ketamine is highly toxic to the body (whether pure or cut).
The toxic fluid passes from the kidneys to the bladder, where it strips away the cells of the bladder wall lining, causing bleeding (which you may see in your urine). As the bladder wall heals, the scar tissue hardens and restricts the bladder from stretching, causing further pain and an increased need to pee.
The function of the bladder is to stretch and expand as it fills with urine. Due to the hardened scar tissue, there is a loss of elasticity and tiny rips occur in the bladder wall as it tries to stretch. As these rips heal, further scar tissue makes the walls harder and thicker, the bladder becomes smaller and less able to stretch; causing frequent need to pee, a loss of sphincter control (leaking urine), cystitis and pain.
As the bladder shrinks, it can no longer hold as much urine as it should, so urine is backed up into the urinary tract, which also becomes hard, and damage is caused to the kidney as toxic fluid sits at the exit of the kidneys.
Eventually, a catheter may need to be inserted to hold the urine that the shrunken bladder can no longer hold. At this stage, some patients are having their bladders rebuilt and in extreme cases, completely removed. Catheters may be inserted at the bladder or the kidney, depending on where the damage is.
It is feared amongst urologists (bladder and kidney specialists) that prolonged ketamine abuse could lead to kidney failure – hypothetically, dialysis would be one way to manage this end stage. A dialysis machine is generally for life.
To date, urologists are unsure why the toxins in Ketamine have these effects. On stopping taking ketamine, some users are showing signs of improvement, some are staying the same and some continue to get worse. Again, urologists do not yet know why this is.
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GENERAL ADVICE
Some users recommend to drink a teaspoon of bi-carbonate of soda in a glass of water to ease ketamine cramps, which it is believed are caused by swallowing ketamine and the resulting acid rising up from the stomach.
If you want to STOP taking ketamine, visit your GP, who can prescribe painkillers and referral to a urologist if necessary. Drink LOTS of water, detox and cleanse the body, eat a healthy diet (see health pages), and sleep lots to restore the body. Once you have stopped taking Ketamine, drink a little apple cider vinegar in warm water (with honey to taste) to help flush out toxins. MSM may help to rejuvenate and soften the damaged cells.
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* If you are concerned about yours or anyone elses ketamine use, or you are suffering with bladder or other physical or psychological problems from Ketamine abuse, please visit your GP, ask to be referred to a urologist if necessary, and follow up any medical treatment with a visit to your local Drug Agency who may be able to issue you with prescribed painkillers, put you on a detox program and offer alternative therapies and help with other areas of your life.
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The British Medical Association have sent the latest Ketamine information out to all GPs in the country. If you, or someone you know is having bladder or urine problems, or suffering K cramps, please visit your GP immediately and tell them you have been using Ketamine. If the GP does not know about Ketamine, you MUST ask to be referred to a local urologist. The British Medical Journal should have the latest findings and research on the effects of ketamine.
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WARNING:
CERTAIN SYMPTOMS OF KETAMINE ABUSE CAN BE MISTAKEN FOR OTHER SIMILAR URINARY OR BLADDER PROBLEMS, SUCH AS CYSTITIS. KETAMINE SYMPTOMS NEED TO BE DIAGNOSED ACCURATELY AND TREATED ACCORDINGLY. IF YOU ARE A USER, IT IS IN YOUR INTEREST TO BE HONEST WITH YOUR GP ABOUT YOUR KETAMINE USE, AS A WRONG DIAGNOSIS COULD RESULT IN THE PROBLEM GOING UNTREATED, CAUSING FURTHER DAMAGE AND MORE SERIOUS LONG TERM PROBLEMS. YOUR GP IS NOT THERE TO JUDGE OR REPORT YOU – THEY ARE THERE TO HELP YOU. BE HONEST WITH THEM ABOUT YOUR KETAMINE USE !!
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KETAMINE ARTICLES …
TO DOWNLOAD AND PRINT THE INFORMATION ON THIS PAGE AS A LEAFLET:
The following articles contain further information and can be downloaded and distributed:
A harrowing real life story from a user: k story
Medical Articles :
http://www.hkmj.org/article_pdfs/hkm0708p311.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketamine
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SUPPLEMENTS TO ASSIST DETOX
MSM
MSM, MethylSulfonylMethane, is a sulphur bearing molecule found in all living organisms. Sulphur is needed to form crucial blood proteins and amino acids. When our diet lacks MSM the cells become rigid and lose the ability to flex back. These are the cells that are associated with aging.
A side effect of ketamine is premature aging.
Sulphur maintains the integrity and elasticity of connective and other tissue.
“Every twelve hours your body is designed to flush each cell of any unwanted debris. When your diet is deficient in MSM, the cell walls become hard and stiff and this hinders fluid and nutrient flow through the cell walls. MSM softens the cell walls, allowing foreign proteins and free radicals to be washed out of your system. If enough MSM is taken, all of the foreign particles can be flushed from your system.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methylsulfonylmethane
TESTIMONIAL FOR MSM
“Been taking MSM (Methylsulfonylmethane) for the last 3 weeks now and have noticed a considerable difference with the amount of fluid my bladder can hold. A large tub of these can be picked up for about £7 and i would highly recommend them to anyone who is finding they are having problems.
Take 3 tablets in the morning and 3 in the evening. They’re not a painkiller of any kind, they just make the bladder wall and surrounding tube networks a bit softer and allow things to start to stretch properly increasing time needed between bathroom trips and overall comfort levels.”
MSM can also be bought in powder form to be taken in water with a squeeze of lemon juice…… from good health food stores or Holland and Barrett.
For more Testimonials
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CIDER VINEGAR
One of the oldest herbal folk remedies, cider vinegar is said to flush toxins from the body and keep the cells rejuvenated. “Its use as a remedy for arthritis is based on the notion that acid crystals harden in the joints and tissues which cause the joints to become stiff and the tissues to harden. These acid crystals apparently cause the body to age prematurely, and according to some, Apple cider vinegar puts these acid crystals in solution so they can be flushed from the body.”
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0GCU/is_n6_v14/ai_20152545
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SPIRITUAL IMPLICATIONS OF KETAMINE (AB)USE
Ketamine stimulates the central nervous system – the receptors that stop feeling – and takes you out of your body. The kidney and spleen become intoxicated from the drug so the soul cant get back in. The body becomes a cess pit and the soul finds it hard to re-enter the body in this dilapidated state.
The heaviness of Ketamine crushes the delicate physical organism, shutting down the endocrine system, which is connected to the light body. Ketamine causes the light centres to close and lock down, making it harder to come back into the body.
When you perform deep meditation, energy points come into sensitive alignment allowing light to pour into the body. Ketamine shuts down these energy points, preventing light from coming into the body. The purpose of meditation is to align delicate systems, to open up the body, to enable the living spirit to come right inside the body – perfect peace of perfect living. When spirit origin comes into perfect alignment within us, there is no more separation and pain stops. Ketamine stands in the way of this process – perpetuating further “pain”.
Users experience not feeling and they cannot communicate. As the soul drifts from the body, dark entities from the astral plain start to lurk near the body because of the vacancy. Energy leeches out, negative energy surrounds the user and financial depletion occurs, as well as intensive physical and emotional damage.
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THE I CHINGS RESPONSE TO KETAMINE
“A person is using an unsuitable image to describe his true nature and the nature of the cosmos (the inner truth that nourishes and supports a person in times of trouble). The Person has lost connection with his inner truth by regarding his study as a spiritual path and seeing himself as the superior man. THE ABILITY TO RECEIVE COSMIC NOURISHMENT has been inhibited by beliefs that are exhausting chi energy.
SEPARATION: True consciousness aids all aspects of the cosmos. But false consciousness eats away at the integrity of things. In separation the body is regarded as only a worthless vehicle which the soul as “superior” inhabits. The true self can only find expression through the body because the body is COMPRESSED COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS and the entire psyche is inextricably connected with body consciousness.
Susceptibility to illness is created by ideas that divide the personality such as those that cause him to look down on his body and demonize its needs. Those ideas create the fate of wasting the joys and opportunities connected with living in a body.
Division of a persons nature in this way suggests the need to cultivate your higher nature.”
“We are compressed cosmic consciousness. We have everything we need within us. Anything that separates us from the experience of that oneness is therefore a lie.”
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“Psychotropic plants tune you into their DNA and the DNA of the planet, enhancing the experience of oneness, inspiring you to honour and look after yourself AND the planet. Ketamine is a manufactured chemical substance. There is NOTHING of nature in it.
A shaman who does iboga ceremonies for heroin and ketamine addicts stated that getting ketamine to leave the body is much harder than getting heroin to leave, because the “spirit” of Ketamine is blind and deaf (no surprise there!!).
Iboga is a sacred plant medicine – a very powerful and intense rite of passage in which no-one can hide from himself. Iboga has been known to cure heroin addicts in a very short period of time. Iboga is Truth. So why does the ketamine hide (act as blind and deaf) from the Iboga ? Could it be the Ketamine experience is just an illusion ? A trick of the mind? Separating us from our essence – detached from the one source – our Divine nature ? “
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“Ketamine is a completely man made creation and as such deserves its name of the frankenstein molecule. By this i mean that nothing like it exists in nature at all. The tryptamines and phenethylamines all seem to have personalities or spirits that appear to be trying to teach us something. It seems that Ketamine can only have anthropos in it and therefore cannot teach us anything that we don’t already know.
I worry that it deceives the mind into thinking it has achieved enlightenment, but in reality is akin to masturbating on your own, rather than making love with the cosmos.” Anon
FROM AN EX USER :
so many people i really love, are lost and in darkness, and they know that they are using k to keep themselves there. one of my best mates has just stopped sniffing k, and the change in him is actually overwhelmingly, astoundingly, amazing, and it has happened so quickly, as soon as he made that choice. he is so bright and so happy and so full of life, he has reclaimed his soul, he talks positively about himself and his life for the first time in years, and he no longer looks like he is knocking on deaths door.
choose life, not k!
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SAFE COLLECTIVE have been spearheading a campaign since 2006 to help raise awareness of this highly toxic and potentially dangerous drug, and its debilitating, often irreversible side effects. To date, our leaflets have spanned across England, from Bristol, Bath, Somerset, London, Brighton, Weymouth, Totnes, Manchester, Reading, Scotland, and to Spain and Germany, where they have been translated.
Working with urologists, Drug Agencies and various Youth Organisations, we aim to highlight up-to-date research and the latest medical information on the damaging effects of ketamine.
For help elsewhere:
Bristol Drugs Project hold regular Ketamine Workshops and run detox programs and support for users in Bristol.
You can find SAFE Collective on Facebook and Facebook Anti Ketamine Groups may also have useful information and discussions. An informative website is Ketamine Bladder Syndrome
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SAFE COLLECTIVE work with Drug agencies, Youth organisations, qualified Social Workers, Counsellors, Youth Workers and alternative therapists to provide a complete service. We are not a treatment service but we offer referral into alternative treatments, and advice and support for making positive life changes. We promote self awareness, ideas for healthy, conscious living, and we provide access to an array of creative activities, workshops and training opportunities for taking steps towards making positive life changes.
With ex-users at the forefront of many or our activities, clients receive firsthand knowledge and advice from people who know best how to turn their life around!
FOR MORE INFORMATION please contact:
JEN WILSON: 07875 053574
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Disclaimer: SAFE Collective are not responsible for content on any of the above websites and do not necessarily agree with everything written on them. The supplements advised above are harmless and have no known side effects unless taken excessively, or without medical advice, which SAFE Collective strongly advise against doing. SAFE Collective do not claim to cure symptoms from prolonged ketamine abuse, nor recommend taking excessive amounts of supplements without medical guidance, and DO NOT advise using cider vinegar if still using ketamine, as the acidity of cider vinegar has been known to cause cramps and pain when mixed with Ketamine. Before taking any purported remedy, it is important to discuss with your GP any side-effects or possible harmful interaction with prescription medicine. Never risk your own health by not visiting your GP in an emergency situation.