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 kidney, bladder 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, rebuilt bladder, in the case of kidney failure, dialysis)
Loss of control, therefore 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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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 the cells that line the bladder wall away, causing bleeding (which you may see in your pee). As the bladder wall heals, the scar tissue hardens and stops the bladder from stretching, causing pain and an increased need to pee.
The function of the bladder is to stretch and expand as it fills with urine. Due to this 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 the 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 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
STOP taking ketamine, ask your GP for alternative painkillers, drink LOTS of water and apple cider vinegar in warm water (with honey to taste) to flush out toxins, eat a healthy diet, sleep lots to restore the body. MSM may help to rejuvenate and soften the damaged cells.
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.
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The British Medical Association have sent 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.
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WARNING:
CERTAIN SYMPTOMS OF KETAMINE ABUSE CAN BE MISTAKEN FOR OTHER, SIMILAR URINARY OR BLADDER PROBLEMS. 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 REAL PROBLEM GOING UNTREATED, CAUSING FURTHER DAMAGE AND MORE SERIOUS LONG TERM PROBLEMS. YOUR GP IS NOT THERE TO JUDGE OR REPORT YOU - IT IS THEIR JOB TO HELP YOU. BE HONEST WITH THEM !!
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KETAMINE ARTICLES …
TO DOWNLOAD AND PRINT THE INFORMATION ON THIS PAGE:
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.drinkanddrugs.net/features/july2808/ketamine.pdf
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 one of the five elements and 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://darrendixon.supanet.com/msm.htm
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…… get on it !!!
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 said that getting ketamine to leave the body is 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 rite of passage in which no-one can hide from themselves. Iboga is Truth - So why does the ketamine hide (blind and deaf) from her ? 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
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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Drug Problems Amongst Travellers
end_of_the_road for travellers?
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If you are concerned about yours or anyone elses ketamine use, please visit your GP 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 help with other areas of your life.
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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, 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 or other guidance, and do not advise to use cider vinegar if still using 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.