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From the outside, ketamine looks mild, a party drug young people experiment with at festivals. From the inside, watching a daily user, it doesn’t look mild at all. The bathroom trips multiply, the cramps get rebranded as kidney infections, the dose keeps climbing, and they slip out of conversations and don’t come back.
The medical system doesn’t help much either. Urology treats the bladder pain without ever naming the cause, and mental health services and substance services don’t speak to each other, so a lot of people fall down the gap between them. The trap is cruel: the bladder hurts, so they take more ketamine to numb it.
The posts below are written by people supporting a loved one through ketamine addiction, including the physical complications it brings, the mental fog, and the difficulty of getting healthcare professionals to take it seriously. Some are early in this, some have been living with it for years. Some are looking for advice, some are simply trying to be heard by someone who already knows what they’re talking about.
This is a space for honesty, not advice from strangers.
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…
Our sone … 29 went out , came home . I woke to hear my husband raising in voice …. He was woken after hearing crashing around in our son’s room . He opened the door to find him rolling around , shaking and foaming at the mouth . He had…
My son after bing taken into hospital against his will ( lack of capacity) in December is now on a weaning off program for benzos . He’s ok but struggles each time it’s reduced . Threating to end his life and so on . I feed him twice a day…
My beautiful son, Adam, 28 has been in active ketamine addiction for 7 years. We have always managed and supported him and kept it private of course! Sadly, in the last few months, due to changes in behaviour I have had to call the…
I’ve posted before … my son , an addict to the devil of katamine . The other day while we were working he had a friend round , first time in over 10 years I’d say .. surely this guy would not pull up on the drive in full face view of the…
My first post and lengthy at that … My eldest son is addicted to kettamin , one of the many drugs that is the devil in our eyes . I found this forum off another site …. We have watched him go from a beautiful young man who had so much to…
I just want to say a big thank you for this app. Some time ago you posted a link, I followed that link and it took me to a website where I was able to find out what support there is with substance misuse/addiction in our area. Yesterday,…
Hi guys, it has been reassuring to read about how ketamine abuse has been so daming to others. I thought my family were the only one going through this. My brother has ADHD for which he refuses to get help. He has been a ketamine addict…
My son has been using ketamine for about 2.5 years now. He’s recently met a girl and seems very happy, he has still been using this horrid drug and it’s causing problems in their relationship. He promised us both a week ago that he would…
Hi everyone im so at a loss on what to do my AS is addicted to ket he did really well went 10 weeks not using now he's started again he won't even ring us anymore he won't listen as anyone got any advice please much love to you all thanks
My son is ketamine and clonazapam dependant. He is 45kg, 6ft and a dangerously high heart rate and pulse. The paramedics were called and said he should go with them to A&E but he refused. I read that to love a drug addict is to run out of…
This is my first post . My 26 year old son is addicted to ketamine . We are completely at our wits end . It started while he was at university and has carried on ever since . He has lost jobs , been arrested for theft , he stole and pawned…
I'm really struggling today. I have been trying so hard to support my daughter but she has changed so much, she is selfish, rude, hurtful and tries to gaslight me. She won't allow me to ever broach the subject of ketamine. She seems to…
Hi My daughter is currently in rehab & doing really well , she has 2 weeks left until she comes home , she has her own home and I’m worried I will be constantly checking up on her and how to give her the space she probably needs anyone…
Hi my daughter is 25 and on ketamine. She's been using for about 3 years now is what she has told me. It started as a weekend thing shes now taking it every day. She had her first appointment last week with drug team. They have said she…
On line support group for families and friends By Poppy, supporting their Son in early recovery Hi all You may or may not have heard of a group based in Liverpool, called Lifeboat. They support mental health and also ketamine addiction,…
Can I ask if anyone else has a situation where their loved one wants to stop (ketamine)? My son is 22, lives with us and was using heavily, writhing in pain with k cramps etc He doesn’t seem in pain lately but clear evidence that he was…