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    Ketamine Service Assessment

    I met with Dr Rupert McShane and a colleague from the Oxford Interventional Psychiatry Service this week for an assessment for their self pay ketamine treatment service. As I wrote about in my previous post, this was the second part of a two stage assessment process. The first part was a ‘desk based’ review base […]

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    Oxford Ketamine Service

    Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust’s Interventional Psychiatry team operate a self pay Ketamine treatment service for people with treatment resistant depression. Led by Dr (Associate Professor) Rupert McShane, the Oxford team have been involved in research into Ketamine as a treatment for treatment resistant depression for a number of years now.I have an assessment with […]

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    Vortioxetine 10mg

    I started Vortioxetine 10 mg about a month ago. When I started seeing DrG I have Vortioxetine in mind as a newer antidepressant that I wanted to try. I had researched the newer or more novel medications as well as looking back to Tricyclics and MAOIs as potential options. Vortioxetine is apparently a serotonin modulator […]

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    My Medications

    When I started with DrG he asked for a history of the depression and anxiety medications I have been prescribed over my life. Once I had pieced these together I was surprised to see just how many meds I have tried and how many of them I had forgotten about. Here’s the list with doses […]