ketamine and concussions

[tropical]

is there any known link between the two?

a friend of mine has had 2-3 concussions, and after insufflating a medium sized key bump of very clean ketamine, blacked out, and came to about 3-4 minutes later. he reported flashback feelings to the aforementioned concussions, and while blacked out, believed he was dying/ had experienced death, with intense visuals to match. when he came to he was drenched in sweat, confused, but coherent. he then experience no further effects. a handfull of other people with little to no tolerance also did bumps of equal size and experienced the normal effects. he had a large finger dip (sublingual) of ketamine a week or so earlier (first time) while on a high dose of mdma (>750mg) and experienced acid like visuals, a la slightly "darker" in nature.

as far as i can tell the only key difference between him and everyone else, who has had the same batch and was fine, is the concussions.

 

[amapola]

I'll send this over to PD for you.

AP >>> PD.

 

[sekio]

That sounds like a K-hole. Perhaps he's just sensitive to ketamine.

If you mean to ask if ketamine can induce a 'chemical concussion', no it cannot. But it's well known for producing out-of-body experiences, loss of conciousness, mystical trips, visual distortions, and a very strange headspace - that all sounds normal. A 'medium size bump' means nothing to us - it could have been 10mg, or 100mg - nobody knows.