DOSE:

insufflated

Ketamine

(powder / crystals)

BODY WEIGHT:

154 lb

[Erowid Note: We've never heard this 'ketamine re-crystalising in the stomach' rumor before. This report is overall remarkable for its extended theorizing on ketamine-related pain.]

I have been a ketamine user for 7 years and a prolific user for the last three years. It is when I began taking the substance on a daily basis when I began to notice the, sometimes horrifically painful, side effects.

Like most other people I had heard rumours of ketamine re-crystalising in the stomach, so took it on board to determine if this was really the reason why, especialy towards the end of the third day of constant use, I began to experience traumatic pains in my abdoman.

Now to cut a long three year exsperiment story short, I came to the conclusion that the answer lies within the minor details, or dare I say one minor side effect. SNOT

Now don't get all excited and think that you have been right in spitting slimey mucus all over the place, in order to not let it hit our stomach and so called re-crystalise.

The first thing you should reailse is Ketamine only crystalises in the absene of liquid, therefore it is going to have a hard time crytalising in a creature that is, for the most part, made of water.

The second and most important of all detail to take note of is the rapid change in the consistencey of your snot. Insted of behaving like it normally would, by drying up as shortly after contact with air, hense the reason you actually have boogers to pick out of your nose, rather than the gluey substance that constantly oozes from your nose, in an attempt to extradite the crystaline white substance from its surfaces. Putting the quantaty of snot produced aside, because otherwise we would be getting stomach cramps every time we have a cold, you might want to notice that the constancy of your maucus is very sticky, durable and somtime stringy like, I imagine, a silk worms maucus would be. This is where the problem lies.

At this point it might be usfull to take a look at the informqation I found out about the production of mucas, and it's uses in the body. But again in short our body is full of the stuff, where ever we need to lubricate something mucas will appear from glands situated not to far away. And our mucas plays a seemingly vital role in the way that our body functions. For instance, and very relivantly, mucas is used in the digestive system to easy the passing of your bodily waste; change the constensy of the mucas and the efficiencey of passing this waist is savierly reduced. Now this alone is not the whole of the problem and sertanly not enough to cause the tremendose amunts of pain caused by those stomach cramps, but it is part of a nock on effect from flooding your system with Ketamine.

The next issue is still related to the consistencey of your mucas, but is more to do with why it causes so much hassel for our bodies. Dehidrated Ketamine 'Loves' water, it can't get enough of the stuff, therfore when ou introduce it to your system, it migrates to the areas where it is most likely able to swim, much like us and our need to live by the sea. This is why it heads straight for our mucas glands. Another peculiar trate Ketamine seems to have is its power to conteract the effects of our bodies natural Salt/Mineral levels. Believe it or not that the salt in your body also plays a huge part in gluing you togetter. Salt is the reason your snot goes hard when in contact with air; it doesn't just dry out, it contracts, pulling all thats around it into it's self. Hense the reason they use it to soak up ice on frosty nights.

When you Add Ketamine to your semi-salty mucas, it looses it will to attract. thus making it just slimey sticky snot. Also you lose a lot of salt by drinking lots of fluids (like you should on ketamin; moreso than you should when taking drugs like extacy or speed as these only make you sweat your fluids, where as ketamine collects all your mosture around itself.)

It is the lack of salts in your body that is the real clue to the stomach cramps. It is well known that low salt levels cause cramp (tho this alone is still not the whole issue)

Now if you deduce the overall outcome, from the fact that firstly you might not have been drinking enough fluids (which can lead most importantly to Consipation) and the fact that your mucas in your digestive trackt is likely to be hindering the flow of this constipated waist, and the fact that with a lack of salt your body naturally gets cramps, you might come to the same conclusion I did.

Drink a salty mineral based fluid (bovril or marmite) to rehidrate and counterbalance the affects of Ketamine on your snot. This yo will find has an amidiate effect of restoring your body to somwhat of a normal saline solution.

Also for more drastic messures, for those suffering with cronic pain, cuased by the wedged constipated fescess trying to move, you should promplty give yourself a warm saline enima. This has an almost magical effect of reliveing pain virtualy instantaniouly if you get it correct. This not being very hard as all you really have to do is add arount 1tbsp of salt to 1L of clean water, Get down on your hands and kness with a naked butt and a bottle with a teet shaped dispenser, insert the teet end as far into your rectum as posible without causing any pain, and squirt the warm saline solution into your ass, making sure you keep your head low to the ground, so the olution will travel up your bowels to the blockage. you may need a 1 - 1+1/2L of solution before you notice a diffence,

Personally I couldn't make it down stares to get the salt so only used warm water from the hot water tap in the teeted bottle. After to complete the job I finished up by rehidrating with a couple of cups of hot marmite, which has the effect of pulling ally your mucas together, giving you the more familliar mucas texture, which enables your body to regain push control over your bodaliy waist.

Ketamine counteracts the level of salts and minerals in your body.

There is a second stage to the cramping which, to my own dicomfort, I had forgotten about. It is like a physical withdrawl symptom when coming off of ketamine. You might have dealt with the constipation and the salt levels in your system but when upon waking, your gulet starts to spasm.

The main cause of this is hypertension. This is rather complicated because there isn't any real provention or cure, its a strange cyclical reaction to still being dehidrated. By this I mean when you wake (can be brought on by high stress situations, waking up is the most stressfull thing your body does of a day) your gulit goes into spasm. This is for three reasons, the first being the stress of waking up and having to jump back into action, on doing so it has to contend with the second and third reason, the second is the pressure buit up by trapped wind in your stomach and the third is the fact you are still dehidrated.

To combat all of this, you first need to deal with the spasm in your gulit, otherwise you will not be able to deal with both the other causes.

So first you need to do the one thing you have to do to cramp, and that is to force it to strech in the oposit direction to which it is trying to pull. Unfortunately this is going to hurt alot. I have found to places that you need to apply pressure in order to force the cramps to relaxe (oh and that is a major key, you need to stay calm and mentaly try to relax the whole of your body) The fisrt, your solar plexus, is the most obviouse place to apply pressure. Right in the center of you abdoman, just below the centre of yor ribs. the Best way to do this is to be on your knees, sitting on your legs with your back as straight as you can manage (which you will be able to straighten more as you begin to relax the cramp) Make sure you are not focusing on the pain and only focusing on keeping your breathing slow short and regular, whilst you start to apply pressure to the soloar plexus.

Again I stress this is going to hurt, but the you will have ot push quite hard with your fingers. You should be able to feel the gulit spasming with your fingers, so each time it does push that little bitt harder to stop it contracting just as far as it would like. Keep this up for a few minutes untill you feel the pain ease off a little. at this pont you may or may not notice that the pain has shifted closer to the back of you body. This is due to the displacement of air in your stomach, and it causes your lower back muscles to beging cramping. You then need to apply the same method of trying to relax those muscles. I found the bes way is to force your thumbs into the two muscles eitherside of your spine (you know the sexy ones on your lower back)

You will know if you haqve been successful if you have been able to burp, which ultimately is the goal of this exercise. With doing so the pain caused by the pressure from trapped wind will beging to subside.

You should now find you can stand up slowly and long enough to drink a hot fluid (none salt based; Hot water would be fine, or even a cup of black tea not coffee, would be perfect) The heat will help to relaxe the cramps and the water will help shift around some of the trapped wind in your stomach, making it easier to belch. You should begin to feel loads better after this. So what you need to do now is drink lots of room temperature water (as cold water will make the cramps worse) and try to eat a little of something hot, as this is what activates our stomach into producing its own heat once more.

Really in reflection it's all to do with your stomach going into hibernation and having to wake up to fast and dehidrated.

This whole procces will probably take it all out of you and you may want to sleep again. My advice for you here is to take a few analgesics (Ibuprofane) as this takes away the pain from the cramps wich in turn helps the muscals to relax, and make sure you drink alot of fluids before you sleep.

After completing all the steps in both previous parts of this report, I found there still to be some minor aftershock effects caused by the amount of ketamine still in my system. Although I was able to inhibit the return of cramps like they were in the beginning by maintaining my fluid intake and applying pressure to the muscles that were causing discomfort, I realized that I would have to endure this until my body was able to significantly reduce the levels of Ketemine in my system.

Myself and I was not going to stand by and just wait, so I started to look for a method to help your body evacuate the substance more rapidly. I already knew that drinking fluids was the only real way of washing the chemical out of your system so I looked for a way of making water more effective. The answer I found online in a detox recipes 'Apple Cider Vinegar Tea'

Roughly 2 tablespoons of Apple Cider Vinegar mixed with either Honey or Maple Syrup (to taste) in a mug of hot water.

Apple Cider Vinegar is meant to contain lots of minerals that help your liver flush out all those free radicals. I also remembered reading in my research that ketamine up stets the pH balance in your body, which the vinegar is able to re-align.

After drinking almost a full cup I almost felt as if there was no ketamine left in my body. This was quickly followed by my realization that I felt tired, I mean actually tired (as I had just finished a long nightshift at work and instead of going to bed I decided to take more ketamine, just like the addict I am) I stopped feeling so wired, just like if somebody had cut my whole K-trip abruptly short. To my relief I was able to sleep and awakened with morning glory and a sexual appetite for the first time in a week.

It is my belief that this detox recipes could be the key ingredient to eliminating those ketamine cramps, only I discovered it to late to to try out on the initial severe cramps.

Good luck and hopefully a less painful future.

Exp Year: 2008	ExpID: 72650
Gender: Male
Age at time of experience: Not Given
Published: Jul 29, 2008	Views: 9,599
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