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Treating a coma with psychedelics

caseface99

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Today i was thinking about a recent mushroom trip, and randomly got a thought. Psychedelics stimulate strong mental reactions and brain activity, right? What better way to stimulate brain activity in a comatose patient than administering psychedelics?

I did a search and all i found was a 2 year old thread on another website, which didn't have any useful information. Has anybody heard of this being done before or know of any studies being conducted? This is definitely something worth looking in to.
 
interesting proposition, however we don't know just a whole lot about comas, and there is a substantial problem in differentiating between that & locked-in syndrome, which i imagine is already hellish enough without being administered a psychedelic.

In patients that are definitely in a coma & not conscious, and have been so for a while, i doubt it could hurt, but i just don't know if there's enough evidence to suggest it may be of some help. Could make for an interesting sequel to Awakenings though, ha.
 
I was in a coma when I was 17 and find it a bit insulting that anyone would even consider using psychedelics to a comatose patient and I have used a variety of psychedelics.
 
me netiher. if anything has a chance of helping someone get better or come out of a coma state,
why not try it?
shit, if i was comatose id want my family and medical professionals working round the clock trying anything that might work to save me
from being a vegetable for the rest of my life.

even if the cure was shooting me up with a fat dose of heroin i wouldnt give a fuck.
do you think if some coma patient was brought back to consciousness and out of their coma they would
even think about giving two shits if they were administered say, 5000ug of LSD-25 as the drug that brought them back?

hell no, of course they wont.
even if they were an ignorant anti drug twit, they'd probably seriously reconsider their stance and views on illicit drugs afterwards.
 
There's been research, I believe, on zopiclone or another of those Z-drugs bringing people out of comas for a short while. Maybe there's something to this.
 
Waking from a coma is not a sudden event; patients regain control of their body slowly, and usually have to undergo weeks of physical therapy to achieve the necessary leg strength to walk. A psychedelic may promote activity in the forebrain but almost surely won't eliminate all symptoms of coma.
 
wiggi said:
I was in a coma when I was 17 and find it a bit insulting that anyone would even consider using psychedelics to a comatose patient and I have used a variety of psychedelics.
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All he did was ask if anyone has ever heard of anything related to the matter. Perhaps you should explain what exactly is insulting about this ? Seems to me the questions was in good faith concerning helping those who are comatose.
 
perhaps he did not mean insulting so much as unethical, as in giving a psychotropic drug non essential for medical reasons without consent.

yea, I would worry about risking sending a loved one on some nightmare trip thru hell that they could not escape nor awaken from. sounds possibly horribly gruesome and even mentally/emotionally damaging... causing derangement, ptsd, or triggering schizophrenia.

dont even think about it... the torturous dangers far far outweigh the extremely iffy speculative benefits. in fact I would guess a horror trip the most likely result in that condition. scary.
 
I give full consent to try to wake me up out of a coma with psychedelics. If it doesn't wake me up I'm sure whatever state my mind is in will be a trip couldn't be much more bazaar then what I am already seeing in my dream state, if anything make it much more colorful, vivid and enjoyable. You worry about this "hell" they cant escape or awaken from, but if you were going to have a bad trip awake its pretty much the same situation, you can't just walk away from a bad trip because you are "conscious."
 
^ Yeah same. Maybe even if i do just have "locked in syndrome".. And i don't even lik e psychedelics that much.
 
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