{"id":47839,"date":"2026-10-01T18:19:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T22:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=47839"},"modified":"2026-10-01T18:19:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T22:19:04","slug":"many-people-with-nerve-pain-describe-it-as-worse-than-death-can-ketamine-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=47839","title":{"rendered":"Many people with nerve pain describe it as &#8216;worse than death.&#8217; Can ketamine help?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/she-was-taking-52-pills-a-day-and-her-pain-was-a-10-out-of-10-every-minute-then-came-ketamine\/article_202e7f5a-dec7-4f30-9c83-3361f8a28d93.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6aa47533a3643.image_.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:180px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Toronto studies see some success in treating pain, depression. But ketamine\u2019s potential is still poorly understood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/she-was-taking-52-pills-a-day-and-her-pain-was-a-10-out-of-10-every-minute-then-came-ketamine\/article_202e7f5a-dec7-4f30-9c83-3361f8a28d93.html\">Many people with nerve pain describe it as &#8216;worse than death.&#8217; Can ketamine help?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto studies see some success in treating pain, depression. But ketamine\u2019s potential&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[485,635],"class_list":["post-47839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-ketamine","tag-pain","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47839"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47842,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47839\/revisions\/47842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}