Trauma and Ketamine Infusions
Revisiting trauma can be uncomfortable or scary. Here is some context and strategies for patients.
Sep 12th, 2023
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Helpful, Free Online Resources
Here are a selection of excellent resources online to supplement and support your treatments for mental health. These resources are helpful and free!
Apr 29th, 2021
Why Doesn't Insurance Cover Ketamine?
Insurance companies don't cover ketamine treatments for depression, anxiety, pain or other conditions. Exceptions prove the rule.
Feb 24th, 2021
Sustain Ketamine Treatments Through The Holidays
Holidays are great, except when they are not. Some things can help sustain the benefits of ketamine treatments during the holiday season.
Nov 24th, 2020
Will Ketamine Cure Me?
Ketamine infusions are an exceptional treatment for depression and anxiety, and they allow patients to work on substantially improving their lives. This additional work can be an important part of lasting improvement.
Nov 4th, 2020
Dealing with Anxiety: Strategies for Covid and Beyond
This has been a stressful time for most people. Some simple strategies may help.
Aug 5th, 2020
My View of Patients Before and After Ketamine Treatments
A blog post by Pam Barnes, Office Manager at Lone Star Infusion on seeing people get better with ketamine treatments.
Apr 29th, 2020
Nitrous Oxide for Depression
We offer nitrous oxide inhalation treatments as an alternative to ketamine infusions. Nitrous oxide has a long history of safe use and shows promise in treating depression.
Apr 6th, 2020
Mental Health Wellness for Quarantine
Helpful advice. Mental health wellness tips for quarantine.
Mar 31st, 2020
Sleep and Mental Health
The quality of sleep is an important part of your mental health. Getting the right amount of sleep and getting good sleep may help with mood disorders, including depression and anxiety. There are some easy (and not so easy) ways to improve your sleep.
Jan 15th, 2020
New Research: More Good News for Treatment-Resistant Depression
New Research on Lone Star Infusion Treatments: The Impact of Childhood Maltreatment on Intravenous Ketamine Outcomes for Adult Patients with Treatment-Resistant Depression
Oct 30th, 2019
Bipolar Disorder and Treatment Options
Bipolar disorder may be the least understood and the most stigmatized mood disorder. But there is hope. Treatments may help.
Sep 3rd, 2019
The Fight to Get Better: Recovering from Depression and Anxiety can be Difficult.
I frequently see this with my patients: Ketamine treatments are often effective for depression and anxiety, but getting better can still take work.
Aug 27th, 2019
Childhood Trauma and Ketamine
Patients with high levels of childhood trauma are more difficult to treat, however ketamine can still effectively treat them and does so better than typical antidepressants.
Jul 18th, 2019
Will my hormones affect my treatments?
The effects your hormones have on your treatments
Apr 25th, 2019
Comparing Depression Treatments
At lone star infusion, we are open and honest with our patients and happy to discuss all the alternatives to treatment and the risks and benefits of each so that they can choose what treatment works best for them.
Apr 8th, 2019
Post Partum Depression
Lone Star Infusion has been treating postpartum depression successfully and less expensively without a hospital stay for 4 years.
Mar 25th, 2019
Sustaining Results With Ketamine Treatments
The results of ketamine treatments for mood disorders – including depression, anxiety and PTSD – can be sustained over time through a combination of infusions in a series and maintenance treatments on a periodic basis.
Apr 16th, 2018
Ketamine for Depression - Our Results
For treating depression with ketamine infusions: This study reviewing our results shows an overall response rate above 70% for patients who receive an initial series of treatments either once a week or twice a week.
Apr 11th, 2018
Adjusting Doses with Ketamine Treatments
At Lone Star Infusion, we find that getting an appropriate, individualized dose appears to impact the quality of the results.
Feb 13th, 2018
The Psychedelic Experience With Ketamine Treatments
Psychedelics continue to show excellent results in treating depression, anxiety and PTSD.
Feb 6th, 2018
Benzodiazepines, Alcohol, and Ketamine Treatments
Ketamine is a tremendous and game-changing treatment option for mood disorders including depression, anxiety and PTSD.
Jan 22nd, 2018
Ketamine With Other Treatments for Depression
Some medications and procedures for depression can’t be combined easily.
Jan 19th, 2018
What to Do with Advice on How to be Happy
How are we supposed to think about an article, like this one below, that posits that depression and anxiety are primarily caused by structural imbalances in the way we live our lives, such as structural problems like being the janitor instead of the CEO:
Jan 12th, 2018
Ketamine versus New Derivative Drugs for Depression
Despite new drugs being developed based on the success of ketamine, it looks like conventional ketamine treatments may remain the best option.
Jan 6th, 2018
Ketamine, FDA Approval, And Off-Label Use of Drugs
I see a lot of confusion when it comes to this subject, and I think this is a good area to explore further.
Aug 2nd, 2017
What can you treat with Ketamine?
Beyond its conventional clinical use as an anesthetic agent, ketamine has increasingly shown good results in the treatment of other conditions.
Jul 29th, 2017
What is Ketamine: Medical Use
Ketamine has a long history of medical use and the research to date supports ketamine as a safe and effective medication when administered by appropriately-trained medical professionals, such as anesthesiologists.
Jul 22nd, 2017
Ketamine in the Body: Why Ketamine By IV Infusion
Ketamine may be delivered by multiple paths: IV, IM, PO, sublingual, subdermal, intranasal, and rectal.
Jul 15th, 2017
What is Ketamine Infusion Like?
What is it like to have an infusion of ketamine for the treatment of mood disorders?
May 15th, 2017
Ketamine Treatments in Louisiana
It is my opinion that ketamine infusions are a valuable treatment option for physicians in the practice of medicine.
Apr 25th, 2017
What is Ketamine: An Overview
Ketamine was created in 1962. It was the first dissociative anesthetic agent in modern medicine, meaning that at high doses it can create a strong feeling of disconnection from one’s self and reality.
Apr 5th, 2017
Magnesium for Depression and Pain: An Important Mineral That Improves the Action of Ketamine
Magnesium appears to be related to healthy neural activity and magnesium appears to improve the action of ketamine at the neuron synapses when the two are given together.
Sep 10th, 2016
Rapid Relief for Postpartum Depression
Ketamine offers the possibility of rapid reduction of depressive symptoms, and may be an excellent option for people struggling with postpartum depression.
Jul 22nd, 2016
Ketamine Infusion Therapies for End-of-Life Care
For a terminal illness ketamine may be a really great treatment option.
May 17th, 2016
Ketamine Treatments and Your Team of Doctors
Much of modern medicine relies on doctors and other health care professionals working together in coordinated teams of experts – each person doing what they do best to take the best care of the patient.
Apr 19th, 2016
Why I started Lone Star Infusion
I started Lone Star Infusion, PLLC to safely provide ketamine as a life-changing treatment option for patients in the Houston area.
Apr 5th, 2016