When Should I Get a Ketamine Booster?
We often get asked this question: "How long is the time frame between ketamine booster infusions?" The real answer and it’s no surprise is... it depends.
As you already may know we recommend an initial six treatments over a period of two to three weeks. This is based upon the evidence from the clinical studies. Then depending on your response and how you feel, you may need a booster anywhere from every two weeks to every four weeks, sometimes even out to two or three months after the initiation series.
We typically check in with our patients 4 weeks to assess how their symptoms are doing. We use an online form, which the patient can fill out easily (depression, anxiety, PTSD, pain, OCD, etc.) to give us a quantitative measurement.
Click here to learn why six infusions are recommended as part of the starting treatment series.
How To Support Your Healing After The Ketamine Infusions
One of the other things to highlight, is the importance of making changes and taking actions that will help support you in relieving and reducing depression, anxiety, and pain symptoms. These changes includes things like:
Eating healthier
Daily exercise
Ending relationships that may no longer serve you
Nurture relationships that will support you
Journaling
Creating art (painting, drawing) and playing music
Practicing mindfulness and breath awareness
Decreasing news and social media use
Going to therapy and/or life coaching
Having a meditative and/or spiritual practice
Learn more here on how to maximize your progress after a ketamine infusion.
Ketamine To Catalyze Healthy Change In Your Life
The key to transforming your life is taking actions that will continue to support you in your life. These lifestyle and mindset changes will then also help support you build resilience. Ketamine is a powerful and effective medicine. However, ideally the infusions would help you get to a point where you would need less and less treatments and even one day not requiring any ketamine at all! We like to think of ketamine as a catalyst for transformative change in your life!
Bottom line: boosters can be done every two to eight weeks depending on the patient and their symptoms. Each patient's results and response may vary of course!
We often get asked this question: "How long is the time frame between ketamine booster infusions?" The real answer and it’s no surprise is... it depends.
As you already may know we recommend an initial six treatments over a period of two to three weeks. This is based upon the evidence from the clinical studies. Then depending on your response and how you feel, you may need a booster anywhere from every two weeks to every four weeks, sometimes even out to two or three months after the initiation series.