How KETAMINE could combat stutters after ‘life-changing’ effect in 60-year-old woman

• A 60-year-old Hispanic woman from the United States suffered from stuttering her entire life.
• She experienced 'almost immediate resolution' after taking a low dose of it

A terminally ill woman's lifelong stutter disappeared after being given ketamine, doctors have revealed.

The 60-year-old American has suffered from a stutter since childhood. When he stutters, he may repeat sounds or syllables or have trouble getting words out.

While living in hospice care for stage 4 kidney disease, she was prescribed medication for depression.

The unexpected “substantial” effects began within a day of taking low concentrations of the medical-grade drug. Party drug dosage.

Medical professionals described her final months in hospice care as “life-changing” and revealed that she was “able to speak freely for the first time since childhood.”

The woman, whose identity has not been disclosed, had been receiving speech therapy on and off since her student days.

However, it only temporarily improved her speech. Doctors still don't know what causes stuttering, which can persist into adulthood.

However, in some cases, it may be thought to be hereditary.

Speech therapy is the primary approach to treating stuttering, which affects 1 in 12 children and 1 in 50 adults. Approximately 700,000 people in the UK and 3 million people in the US are expected to be affected.

The woman, who also had chronic lung disease, spent five months in hospice care before being diagnosed with depression and prescribed low doses of ketamine twice a day.

Doctors said her stuttering stopped within 24 hours of starting treatment. Medical case report journal.

Her family and friends, who only knew that she stuttered, quickly recognized the opportunity.

“The unexpected effects of the ketamine prescription were significant,” the doctors wrote.

“The patient was able to speak consistently and freely for the first time since childhood.

“This effect itself provided relief from depression as she was able to communicate easily. For this patient, the ketamine prescription was life-changing.”

Doctors said they do not know whether her depression was due to the ketamine treatment, her newfound fluency, or a combination of both.

Occasionally, the woman's stutter would recur and she would repeat words, but it was never severe enough to interfere with her speech.

The patient died one month later. Doctors did not reveal the cause of her death.

The team that treated the unidentified woman claimed that no case of ketamine curing stuttering had ever been reported in the medical literature.

The researchers added that it is unclear how the drug alleviated her stuttering, as the mechanism behind this symptom is not fully understood.

However, they suggested that it may be because the ketamine increased her dopamine levels. Some studies have found that pleasure hormones can reduce the severity of stuttering, the researchers noted.

Experts said further research was needed into how the drug affected stuttering, as “treatment with the same drug may benefit other people who stutter.”

Ketamine is only licensed as an anesthetic in the UK, but is sometimes prescribed off-label as a pain reliever. These versions are medical grade and proven safe.

It acts as an anesthetic by blocking the neurotransmitter N-methyl-D-aspartate (NDMA), which controls the actions of the nervous system. This rapidly reduces sensation, prevents pain, induces sleep, and inhibits memory.

This class B drug is being studied as a treatment for depression and PTSD.

Also known as Special K, Ket, or KitKat, it was a popular party drug in the late 1990s, often consumed at all-night raves.

However, its popularity waned in the 2000s when it became a Schedule III drug, and there were concerns about side effects such as hallucinations and, in rare cases, seizures.

The drug was dubbed Britain's “campus killer” after it was revealed earlier this year that it had killed 41 students since 1999, according to the National Program on Deaths Due to Drug Abuse.

Earlier this month, an autopsy on actor Matthew Perry revealed that he accidentally drowned on October 28 under the “acute effects of ketamine,” which caused him to become dazed and fall asleep in his Jacuzzi. It has become clear that this may have caused his death.