Fibromyalgia Treatment
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Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain disorder, but its symptoms can be complex. In addition to muscular pain, patients experience memory and mood problems, sleep issues, and fatigue. Fibromyalgia affects about 4 million US adults, about 2% of the adult population. The cause of fibromyalgia is unknown, but it can be effectively treated and managed.
The pain that comes with fibromyalgia is often a throbbing and dull ache. Ketamine infusions can help ease fibromyalgia pain quickly .
What Are the Symptoms of Fibromyalgia?
People with fibromyalgia may be more sensitive to pain than people without fibromyalgia. common symptoms of fibromyalgia include:
- Widespread pain. The pain associated with this condition is a constant, dull ache that lasts for or exceeds three months.
- Fatigue. Due to the effects of chronic pain, many with fibromyalgia often wake up tired due to disrupted sleep by flare-ups of pain in parts of the body.
- Cognitive difficulties. Also known as “fibro fog,” a person with fibromyalgia has trouble focusing and concentrating on mental tasks.
Why Ketamine for Fibromyalgia?
Researchers have discovered that ketamine provides long-term remission of pain, or at least long-term and sustained relief, even in patients resistant to other forms of fibromyalgia treatment.
How much ketamine you receive is based on your body weight. Clinicians administer ketamine at a controlled, slow pace. There are no respiratory, hallucinogenic, or cardiovascular effects during or after your infusion.
How Does Ketamine Help Treat Fibromyalgia?
Fibromyalgia consists of psychological and physiological aspects. Long-term pain can bring about depression. Multiple infusions may be needed in more severe cases with mental health complications.
Those with chronic pain show an overactivity of the NMDA receptors activated by glutamate. As a non-competitive NMDA antagonist, ketamine prevents glutamate from activating the NMDA receptor.
The inhibition of the NMDA receptor may cause a build-up of free glutamate, which then activates the AMPA receptors. When surplus glutamate activates the AMPA receptor, it releases a brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF). BDNF, in interaction with the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), promotes new neural growth. This new growth may reroute the brain from hyperactive areas associated with chronic pain, thereby providing long-term relief.
Is Ketamine Right for You?
K Therapeutics and Wellness mental health service is revolutionizing how Central Indiana residents manage fibromyalgia symptoms and other treatment-resistant conditions. If you or someone you love suffers from fibromyalgia, contact us today to learn how ketamine therapy can help!
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