Travis's life with CRPS. I am his Mom and this is told from my point of view. When this started Travis was 17 years old and had gone from a active athlete to getting around on crutches and living with chronic pain. All because of this nasty disorder,CRPS. He has had 4 years in remission and now its back.
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Next Treatment
Trav's next treatment is set for July 11-15, 2011. It will be another week long stay in Salt Lake City and the U of U Pain Clinic. This time he will be receiving a IV treatment daily of ketamine. Ketamine is a drug used to put people under for surgery. in lower doeses it can help reset CRPS patients nerves and have pain controlling effects. We will be at the clinic for 5-6 hours daily while he is monitored with the treatment. Hope this is the one to do the trick and get him some relief. I have read a lot of good things about it and very little bad. The worst I have read is he can have hallucinations while on it. Also it has a 20 % chance of doing nothing to help. So I will keep everyone updated as it gets closer.
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