linda kyle

I have been in ketamine therapy two years. It provides longer relief for CRPS. once a quarter the first year and then they tried monthly boosters. Now I don't have private insurance and can't afford the "cash" price and will go to some other clinic regardless of where it is as long as they are certified anesthesiologists. It isn't the best treatment but sure beats some doctor putting in a neuro-modulator(basically wire your spine to electrodes) and you have a small remote control to turn it on, off or up if it actually works. More people have had them removed than have kept them. Watch The Bleeding Edge and look up Dollars for Docs to see how much your doc makes off these wonder medical equipment supplies that are surgically implanted by a vendor technician, not a doctor. Do your research but ketamine infusions is a very low dosage, they just run up the prices here in the US because they can. So basically insurance didn't pay for ketamine but the clinic got around that and billed for other things and now I have only Medicare( why pay for secondary pay or when they don't pay for the treatment I need) so my only choice is to leave the USA for treatment. You go to a so called specialist who gives you samples of drugs used "off label" the difference is that drug is $1000.00 for 30 days. Ketamine in a clinical environment is cheap so US doctors want the money and aren't going to give affordable treatment.