Advice please
Somebody supporting another with ketamine addiction
My son is currently in hospital. They say he has capacity but I think not .
He is currently 41kg, 5ft11, weaning off of diazepam and on ketamine. He is so severely malnurished from not eating for the past 4 days and last three days not drinking. I’m searching for help and have googled, asked AI every under the sun to try to save his life but still he refuses help , tests. I will loose him in the next week if I can’t do something. He doesn’t think he’s going to die but passes their tests every time . Any advice gladly taken .
From a desperate mum
He is currently 41kg, 5ft11, weaning off of diazepam and on ketamine. He is so severely malnurished from not eating for the past 4 days and last three days not drinking. I’m searching for help and have googled, asked AI every under the sun to try to save his life but still he refuses help , tests. I will loose him in the next week if I can’t do something. He doesn’t think he’s going to die but passes their tests every time . Any advice gladly taken .
From a desperate mum
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Somebody supporting another with alcohol and cocaine addictions
So sorry you are going through this.
I don’t know if helps but Im actually with a friend at the moment who is a nurse but also has gone through ketamine addiction with her adult son.
She said - she needs to say she wants to implement Martha's rule and they must give a second opinion. It’s in place at all hospitals and is widely used. She's his mum and knows him best. He needs urgent care. Hopefully the mental health team are involved . If she's not getting anywhere then she needs to go high up in the Trust to exec level and not just deal with the ward doctors.
https://www.england.nhs.uk/patient-safety/marthas-rule/
Hope this helps. Praying for you x
I don’t know if helps but Im actually with a friend at the moment who is a nurse but also has gone through ketamine addiction with her adult son.
She said - she needs to say she wants to implement Martha's rule and they must give a second opinion. It’s in place at all hospitals and is widely used. She's his mum and knows him best. He needs urgent care. Hopefully the mental health team are involved . If she's not getting anywhere then she needs to go high up in the Trust to exec level and not just deal with the ward doctors.
https://www.england.nhs.uk/patient-safety/marthas-rule/
Hope this helps. Praying for you x
Somebody supporting another with ketamine addiction
Thank you so much xx
Somebody supporting another with ketamine addiction
I have been here and I'm so sorry you're going through it.
If you have a good MP, email them and ask for urgent help. Mine did help.
How is he now and how are you doing?
If you have a good MP, email them and ask for urgent help. Mine did help.
How is he now and how are you doing?
Somebody supporting another with ketamine addiction
He’s not great . Managed to get him into hospital and then he discharged himself. He has kidney and liver damage from dehydration. Also the build up of toxins from the drugs .
Again yesterday evening I got him into hosiwith lack of capacity. They treated him and i agreed to stay with him for as long as if he would stop asking me to take him home .
Back Home now and not drinking enough water so might end up there again . He is so very intelligent but with all these drugs he’s stupid . He’s been told he needs to drink water not juice but just says I’m drinking juice . Grrrr.
He will end up with failing kidneys at this rate .
We were due to go on holiday on Saturday, tomorrow but I can’t go with him like this . So now we plan to go on Wednesday and I will do everything in my power to get him eating and in a better place. I’ve called the crisis team, told them I can’t cope and I need to go away . I’m trying to step back although now isn’t the right time . But when Is.
You cannot help a person who doesn’t want your help. But he is my son so I just don’t know how to step away from him . I’m lost and broken but still we carry on xxx
Again yesterday evening I got him into hosiwith lack of capacity. They treated him and i agreed to stay with him for as long as if he would stop asking me to take him home .
Back Home now and not drinking enough water so might end up there again . He is so very intelligent but with all these drugs he’s stupid . He’s been told he needs to drink water not juice but just says I’m drinking juice . Grrrr.
He will end up with failing kidneys at this rate .
We were due to go on holiday on Saturday, tomorrow but I can’t go with him like this . So now we plan to go on Wednesday and I will do everything in my power to get him eating and in a better place. I’ve called the crisis team, told them I can’t cope and I need to go away . I’m trying to step back although now isn’t the right time . But when Is.
You cannot help a person who doesn’t want your help. But he is my son so I just don’t know how to step away from him . I’m lost and broken but still we carry on xxx
Somebody supporting another with ketamine, MDMA, and alcohol addictions
I feel for you so much. My son is a ket addict and I am amazed that his body is not failing him more. He has checks every now and then when he will go to the drs and they want to do another ECG but he hasn’t gone. We don’t have him at home as my partner won’t let him be there and it would not be good for our daughter - but I feel so guilty that he isn’t at home. He says he feels he doesn’t belong anywhere but he keeps making these awful choices. Says he won’t stop because he doesn’t have anything else and would just be rattling in an empty room.