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Here are a selection of excellent resources online to supplement and support your treatments for mental health. These resources are helpful and free!

Insurance companies don't cover ketamine treatments for depression, anxiety, pain or other conditions. Exceptions prove the rule.

Holidays are great, except when they are not. Some things can help sustain the benefits of ketamine treatments during the holiday season.

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.

This has been a stressful time for most people. Some simple strategies may help.

A blog post by Pam Barnes, Office Manager at Lone Star Infusion on seeing people get better with ketamine treatments.

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.

Helpful advice. Mental health wellness tips for quarantine.

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.

New Research on Lone Star Infusion Treatments: The Impact of Childhood Maltreatment on Intravenous Ketamine Outcomes for Adult Patients with Treatment-Resistant Depression

Bipolar disorder may be the least understood and the most stigmatized mood disorder. But there is hope. Treatments may help.

I frequently see this with my patients: Ketamine treatments are often effective for depression and anxiety, but getting better can still take work.

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.

The effects your hormones have on your 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.

Lone Star Infusion has been treating postpartum depression successfully and less expensively without a hospital stay for 4 years.

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.

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.

How does ketamine work in the body?

At Lone Star Infusion, we find that getting an appropriate, individualized dose appears to impact the quality of the results.

Psychedelics continue to show excellent results in treating depression, anxiety and PTSD.

Ketamine is a tremendous and game-changing treatment option for mood disorders including depression, anxiety and PTSD.

Some medications and procedures for depression can’t be combined easily.

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:

Despite new drugs being developed based on the success of ketamine, it looks like conventional ketamine treatments may remain the best option.

Intense, chronic pain can be debilitating.

I see a lot of confusion when it comes to this subject, and I think this is a good area to explore further.

Beyond its conventional clinical use as an anesthetic agent, ketamine has increasingly shown good results in the treatment of other conditions.

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.

Ketamine may be delivered by multiple paths: IV, IM, PO, sublingual, subdermal, intranasal, and rectal.

What is it like to have an infusion of ketamine for the treatment of mood disorders?

It is my opinion that ketamine infusions are a valuable treatment option for physicians in the practice of medicine.

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.

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.

Ketamine offers the possibility of rapid reduction of depressive symptoms, and may be an excellent option for people struggling with postpartum depression.

For a terminal illness ketamine may be a really great treatment option.

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.

I started Lone Star Infusion, PLLC to safely provide ketamine as a life-changing treatment option for patients in the Houston area.