OK we had to be at the clinic by 8:30am. Didn't get started with the injection until 9:30. Had to do an exam and get the IV started. They dosed him with 10 mg and a IV drip of the same amount per hour. Within a few minutes the Ketamine started to work. He got the giggles and then would be tired then giggles again. After 45 minutes he was back to normal so they upped his dose to 15 mg per hour. Still was feeling normal and we did a few exercises. That flared his pain. So again upped his dose to 20 per hour. By 12 noon the dose was up to 25 per hour. This is when he started to see the ceiling move like he was playing "frogger". Seeing double of everything. Had a vivid dream of mini kitties pushing root beer cans up his belly. Yes he was very stoned. Not sure I liked seeing it but at the same time it was funny. He would flip his head from side to side and think he was flipping it super fast. Just glad he didn't see any scary things.
The treatment didn't do anything for his pain today and that was expected. It can take a couple doses to help reset his brain. So we should know if its going to help by Wed. He reacted just like they had hoped and no bad hallucinations. They are working on dose and how it effects him today. Tomorrow he will start at the 25 per hour dose and go from there.
He has crashed hard now and I'm just letting him sleep its rare he sleeps this hard. He had 3 doses of Atavan also to help relax him so that isn't hurting the sleeping either.
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