Does anyone have any experience with Ketamine?

[sacvic50]

I was in the middle of a major surgery when they lost my IV and couldn't get another one started,  I woke up from surgery and was unable to speak, I thought that I'd had a stroke or something.  It was horrifying.  When the nurses calmed me down and I realized I really was speaking I wasn't just thinking.... they told me I had been given a very high dose of Ketamine to keep me from coming to on the operating table with my leg slashed open.  It was by far the most frightening drug I have ever taken. I made it through the 70s sharing the belief that the good folks from Dow Chemical proclaimed and that was "Better Living Through Chemistry".  not even the most scary window pane LSD comes anywhere close to being so terrifying.  I am just curious,  Does anyone have a clue as to whether it was just the circumstances, the high dosage or some combination of everything?  The reason I am asking is when I was last at Stanford they were beginning to use dosages of approx. 20 mgs of liquid Ketamine as an adjunct or possible replacement of traditional narcotics.  I am not even clear as to what class of drug Ketamine falls into?  I am really curious, does anyone else have any history with it?

[cattalina]

Ketamine is an animal tranq and in small doses produces a really mild state of hallucination that can be fun. In larger doses it can be really scary. I don't know how much would be used during surgery but I've seen people take too much trying to get high. I watched someone essentially lose their mind from taking way too much K - it was scary to watch someone stuck in an extreme hallucination like that. Luckily I never did enough to go over that edge, my experience with it was always fun but I never did too much as it does cause you to lose control of reality.

[Jacqui805]

It's a Schedule III Controlled Substance and a dissociative anesthetic.  One of it's possible adverse reactions is a kind of "near death" or out of body experience among many others.  I don't know much more about it than that.  Sounds wicked scary for sure.  

[goldenarm]

Someone also tolm me tha you were less likely to go nto shock or have a heart attack during surgery from the trauma of cutting into you. I dont know about all that but i sure wouldnt want to ever have to be on it again..

[beatingthis]

Ketamine is used in animal hopsitals. We used it for surgery. It not only put the animal to sleep but it paralyzes them so they don't move during surgery. Tuff stuff.

Terry

[goldenarm]

Well ive had my share of window pane, sunshine, microdot, u name it, also had ketamine as a burn ward patient.THey gave it to me for a Debreeding. Fun stuff. I thought i was in a car wash and that i had morphed into a car, wierd ****, couldnt do anything on it,when i snapped out of it i was on the stretcher with chains hooked to what looked like a minature crane device over stainless steel tubs where water and bleach and blood and skin and soot, remained, oh and all that hsit was from me. The Dr told me to just act like i was going on a LSD trip and to make sure to thnk good thoughts, Ok then.Will someone please pass the demerol and morphine.THat had to be one of the screwdest times of my life, i was 18 when it happened.The old OCMC burn ward, my deepest gratitude to the Nurses and Dr.s that worked in that hell hole...For all intent it was like acid and cenebanol combined...

[ChronicPain1]

I had been offered a bag of it by someone once, turned it down though.

[122 Tactical Fighter Group]

Not a decent history . . . . has been called "Special K" when found underground - which isnt that common.  Many Doc's (Anesthesiologist's usually...) Drug Of Choice. Not sure why. The stuff is a "disassociative" sorta similar to PCP...... And I agree  - - even though the old windowpane really lit you up - it didnt treat you like ketamine does. Never thought of it like that before......