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Antidepressant injections
What are antidepressant injection and salines, my psychiatrist told me if my depression didn't improve, I can opt for these solutions, he said he'll administrate me in his hospital for about 7 days
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Well without knowing your health problems in detail can’t advise you perfectly.. but yes ketamine can be used as antidepressants and many psychiatrist administer it in saline to improve resistant depression.. it is FDA approved treatment for depression.. ask to your psychiatrist about it in detail that what medicine he is taking about..
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Generally v shall start oral medication and change the drugs slowly.If in case of inadequate response to oral drug therapy, v start on injectables. One of those is ketamine infusion through saline under admission.
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