Ketamine Infusion therapy in Reno, NV

Rapid Relief for Depression, Anxiety, and Chronic Pain

Depression is one of the leading causes of disability worldwide — and for many, traditional antidepressants simply don’t provide enough relief. At Renewed Vitality & Wellness in Reno, NV, we offer Ketamine Infusion Therapy, a groundbreaking treatment for those struggling with treatment-resistant depression, anxiety, PTSD, OCD, bipolar disorder, or chronic pain.

Unlike conventional antidepressants that take weeks to work, Ketamine infusions can begin to relieve symptoms within hours or days. Researchers believe ketamine not only improves mood but also helps repair damaged neural connections in the brain — offering both rapid and long-lasting effects.

How Ketamine Works

Chronic stress and elevated cortisol levels can damage brain pathways over time. Ketamine works differently than medications like Zoloft or Lexapro. It targets NMDA receptors, which increases the neurotransmitter glutamate and activates AMPA receptors. Together, these promote synaptogenesis — the growth of new neural connections that improve mood, cognition, and emotional regulation.

By helping the brain form new pathways, Ketamine Therapy “resets” neural communication, offering new hope to those who haven’t responded to traditional medications.

Safe. Effective. Backed by Research.

Ketamine has been FDA-approved as an anesthetic since the 1970s. In lower, carefully monitored doses, it’s been shown to be one of the most effective treatments for mood disorders and chronic pain. Treatments are administered intravenously in a calm, supportive setting, typically over a series of sessions customized to each patient’s needs.

Many patients report feeling relief from depression, reduced anxiety, improved focus, and renewed emotional clarity after treatment — often within the first few infusions.

Experience Hope and Healing

If you’ve struggled to find relief from depression or anxiety, Ketamine Infusion Therapy may offer the breakthrough you’ve been searching for.

Schedule your consultation at Renewed Vitality & Wellness in Reno, NV today and take the first step toward renewed balance, energy, and mental wellness.

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Ketamine Infusion Therapy

Ketamine Wellness Plan

Stabilization

Mental Health Treatment

Infusion Duration: 1 hour

Number of Treatments: 4 or 6 sessions (based on the results of your screening)

Length of Stabilization Period: Within 1-2 weeks

Chronic Pain Treatment

Our Ketamine treatment protocol for chronic and neuropathic pain syndromes such as Fibromyalgia and Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS). This treatment series consists of initial treatments, which are condensed into a single week.

Infusion Duration: Three hours & 45 minutes

Number of Treatments: 3 or 5 total (based on the results of your screening)

Length of Stabilization Period: Within one week

Maintenance

This period refers to all ongoing treatments after stabilization.

Mental Health Maintenance Treatment

Ketamine is unique for its long-lasting benefits from just a single treatment session. Unlike most antidepressants, ketamine therapy can be scheduled on an as-needed basis. After your initial stabilization treatments, you may find that you only need maintenance treatments every 8 weeks to a few times each year.

Chronic Pain Maintenance Treatment

The maintenance schedule after stabilization is two additional consecutive treatments (two weeks after stabilization), and then future treatments are based on remission and the patient’s need for additional treatments moving forward.

*Ask about in home treatments for your added convenience.

Ketamine Research

Study: Efficacy of ketamine therapy in the treatment of depression

Summary: “Ketamine has a robust and rapid effect on depression, which was seen immediately after the administration of ketamine and sustained at the end of 1 month.”

Study: Signaling pathways underlying the rapid antidepressant actions of ketamine

Summary: “Recent clinical studies have demonstrated that ketamine, an NMDA receptor antagonist produces a rapid antidepressant response (within hours) and is effective in treatment resistant depressed patients…Novel targets that influence glutamate transmission, BDNF-mTOR signaling, and synaptogenesis offer promise for the development of safer, rapid acting and efficacious antidepressant agents for the treatment of depression.”

Study: Real-world effectiveness of ketamine in treatment-resistant depression: A Systematic Review & Meta-analysis.

Summary: “These results demonstrate that even the most treatment-resistant patients may benefit from ketamine, and that mid-to-long term treatment is effective in many patients.”

Study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24740528/

Summary: "Researchers analyzed eight separate studies that investigated ketamine therapy for anxiety disorders. They concluded that current research supports ketamine’s ability to provide significant relief in patients suffering from social anxiety disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and other conditions on the anxiety spectrum. and depression."

Study: Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials of ketamine in the treatment of refractory anxiety spectrum disorders

Summary: Researchers analyzed eight separate studies that investigated ketamine therapy for anxiety disorders. They concluded that current research supports ketamine’s ability to provide significant relief in patients suffering from social anxiety disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and other conditions on the anxiety spectrum."

Study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3799067/

Summary: "In 2013, a study by the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology found that ketamine can have “rapid anti-obsessional effects”in adults suffering from OCD. In this trial, ketamine treatment was specifically effective against pervasive intrusive thoughts and obsessive symptoms. The study also noted that ketamine treatment could be an important development in OCD treatment because of its fast onset compared to other medications."

Ketamine infusion therapy is research-backed, evidence-based, and has a 30-year FDA-approved safety profile. Ketamine infusions are used to successfully treat a range of anxiety disorders, including generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), social anxiety disorder (SAD), panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and PTSD. Unlike traditional medications for anxiety, ketamine infusion therapy is typically effective within hours and symptoms can stay controlled for weeks or months between treatments.

If you are having suicidal thoughts, or you know someone who is, help is available. In the U.S., call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 or

dial 988.

Frequently Asked Questions

Please reach us at amber@renewedvitalityandwellness.com if you cannot find an answer to your question.

How Long Will The Effects of Ketamine Treatments Last?

COMMITMENT TO LIFE CHANGE: By the time people are seeking ketamine treatments, they have already made many accommodations in their lives for their depression, their pain, their anxiety, OCD, PTSD, etc. Some of these accommodations made can actually support their depressive symptoms. It is important to eliminate these to minimize the return of the depression and all of its symptoms. Therefore, success in maintaining the therapeutic gains can depend on changing other things in your life as well. Ketamine is not magic, very few chronic illnesses can be cured in one treatment. Commitment to the process is crucial to seeing long term results. Trying Ketamine once or twice is not going to solve all of your difficulties, make a commitment to the full series of treatments and make the lifestyle changes as well. A series of 4-6 stabilization treatments is recommended with a maintenance program of every 4-6 weeks is typically what works for most people.

Is Ketamine A Psychedelic Drug?

Not really, it is called a dissociative drug. Dissociation can be described as transient amnesias, a twilight state, automatisms, and depersonalization. It is a distortion of perceptions of sight and sound that can produce feelings of detachment or dissociation from the environment or self. Many people feel light and like they are floating. These side effects will dissipate as soon as the infusion is complete or if the infusion is stopped for any reason. This may sound scary but most people have called this experience very pleasant and enjoyable.

What Will I Do During The Treatment?

It is completely up to you, this is your time. However, consider that your brain is being remodeled with new neuropathways and old neuropathways are being repaired. So essentially, what you put into your brain should be considered. During, before and after your treatments try to be positive, set intensions and continue postive affirmations. Listening to instrumental or ketamine playlists can be very positive for the mind. Blocking out all negative input is essential. You will have the option of using our noise canceling headphones and eye covers. You may listen to music that we provide or you may bring your own playlists. It is recommended that you spend some time finding what you like. There are many "ketamine therapy playlists" out there to explore. We also have access to movies, TV shows and moving art.

How Does Ketamine Compare to Alternatives?

Typical anti-depressants take weeks to months to work. There are many of these drugs to choose from and no reliable way at this time to know which one will be effective and well-tolerated. Unfortunately, one may wait weeks and find out that they cannot tolerate it or that it doesn't work for them. These medications have many common side effects such as weight gain, sexual dysfunction, gastrointestinal disturbances, sleep disturbance, fatigue, and emotional blunting. Some newer medications that are add on antidepressants also have an increased risk for causing diabetes. You may have experienced these in the past and if you have, you probably don't want to go down that road again. Unfortunately, not everyone will respond to Ketamine, but you will know after a short time if you don't and you won't continue to waste time or go through any unpleasant side effects. Outside of the infusion time and a couple hours after, you are not "medicated".

How Do I Maximize the Benefits?

It is very common to seek treatment for mental health that makes sense intellectually but it is impossible to follow through on because of the depressive symptoms. You may have heard "eat well, exercise, engage in talk therapy, find social support, stay busy" and so on. Ketamine rapidly enables you to be able to act on these important activities and those that have the best results support the medicine's effect in these ways. In addition, ketamine is thought to "prime" the brain for learning and making new connections. Talk therapy can be an ideal way to "lock in" therapeutic learning and capitalize on this unique window of time.

What is Ketamine and How Does It Work?

Ketamine is a medication that has been around for many decades. It can lead to the dramatic improvement in symptoms of depression, even in patients who have severe, chronic, treatment resistant mood disorders. Ketamine is FDA approved as an anesthetic agent, you may have had it before if you have had a surgery. To use it outside of this application, it is considered "off label" at this time. At sub-anesthetic doses (much lower doses than when used as an anesthetic) Ketamine may be useful in the treatment of bipolar and unipolar depression, anxiety disorders, post-traumatic stress disorders, chronic migraine, fibromyalgia, addiction and pain. Ketamine infusions work by providing medication directly into the bloodstream where it immediately begins to repair the stress-induced damage in the brain's communication system. Ketamine works on the glutamate pathways in your brain, these pathways work to communicate between neurons. When people are stressed, under pressure and have symptoms such as depression, the pathways are interrupted and functioning poorly. When Ketamine is given at low doses, these neural pathways seem to reverse and new pathways are regenerated making new neuronal connections.

Do I Continue With My Current Mental health Provider or My Primary Care Provider?

Yes, our provider is serving you in a consulting capacity to provide this procedure. It is recommended that you have a mental health provider such as a psychiatrist, psychologist, therapist or counselor. It is also recommended that you have a primary care provider to get regular lab work and get regular maintenance for any health disorders. If you need help finding a mental health or primary care provider, please let us know. We would be happy to make a referral.

What Conditions Make Ketamine Dangerous or Ineffective? What Are The Risks?

Uncontrolled high blood pressure, unstable heart disease, increased intracranial or intra-ocular pressure, interstitial cystitis, active substance abuse, current manic phase of bipolar disorder, and active psychotic symptoms are conditions that can be dangerous to treat with Ketamine. However, risks are minimal when these conditions are not treated. For people who do not have these conditions the dose used for the treatment of mood and anxiety disorders is very low and safe. For a short time during the infusion, blood pressure and heart rate may increase. This is monitored closely to ensure safety and medications are administered if necessary to manage problematic increases in blood pressure or episodes of nausea or anxiety.

What Are the Success Rates?

Approximately 70-80% of patients respond to ketamine infusions. Certain genetic factors and patient characteristics may increase the likelihood of success. Factors that are associated with successful treatment include: exposure to chronic stress, family history of alcoholism, suicidal ideation, increased BMI, anxious depression, cognitive dysfunction, and a Val/Val BDNF gene.