Life is best when you and your loved ones all feel great. Nothing drives this point home more than when one member falls ill. And this subject is always easier to discuss when the former is your reality. Sometimes it’s easier to prepare ahead of time for what may lie ahead, for like it or not, life is ever-changing. It can be so much easier to deal with whatever situation that may arise, if it has been given at least some advance thought. Not dwelling on the icky stuff in life certainly, but giving it periodic, updated consideration. Kind of like having an emergency home evacuation plan just in case of an emergency. The time to plan is not when you’re faced with needing that very plan.
So as everything happily runs along, and we celebrate the feeling good moments, I would like to share my experiences with pet anesthetics. This may see like a strange leap or transition of thought, but after some recent health concerns with a four-footed loved one, that gloriously seem to have abated, I’m in that feel good space now. Something to truly be savoured, enjoyed, and appreciated. When I know more certainly how the natural treatments are working, I will share those thoughts and discoveries as well. So far they are really exciting, beyond my wildest dreams.
But for now, I’d like to share a previous medical discovery. I’m no scientist, I didn’t discover anything new, but it was a new discovery for me. We’re becoming more involved in our own healthcare, asking more questions and doing our own reading and research when faced with medical decisions. Hopefully gone are the days of just blindly doing whatever the doctor told us to do. Instead, it’s second or third opinions, looking at holistic alternatives, having an actual two-way dialogue with our doctors or veterinarians.
Years ago I never questioned, never even thought to question what type of anesthetic a vet might use. But it seems the more you deal with a loved one’s health concerns, the more you look for alternatives or answers to what no one seems to know, the more other thoughts begin to occur to you. Anesthesia was one such thought. This led me to research the different chemicals available and their respective side-effects. Sadly it often seems the choice of drug comes down to cost. The crazy thing is the cost differential is pretty darn small. Now I like a bargain as much as anyone, but this seems an absolutely ridiculous time to scrimp. Especially when I learned about some of the side effects of one of the cheaper, and often standard anesthetic choices, ketamine.
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I am not a medical expert and make no assertions to the contrary, but I can read the research. There are a number of benefits in my opinion to other anesthetic drugs like propofol (Michael Jackson’s overdose not withstanding as it was an abuse of the drug). It’s easier to control the dose as it’s needed, one comes out of the anesthetic almost as soon as it stops being administered, it tends to be less damaging to the kidneys and other organs, and avoids the long dopey ill aftereffects of drugs like ketamine.
They used to use ketamine as an anesthetic for people, but too many reported very disturbing and scary experiences as they were coming out of it. No wonder. Guess what the other modern use is for ketamine? As a psychedelic used by drug users seeking a high similar to LSD! That was the clincher for me. As if our dogs and cats aren’t scared enough being in the hospital or clinic. They need to be given a hallucinogenic too?
I just find it rather disturbing, that we don’t use this anymore as an anesthetic for humans because it’s freaky to wake up from, but oh sure, it’s just fine for animals who can’t speak our language. And to do this, when alternatives like propofol exist… I know of vets who never use ketamine, and others for whom it’s their standard anesthetic. Maybe they have other reasons I’m unaware of. No drug is perfect after all. I just know what I have chosen for Bailey since I became aware of all this. And he has not had a psychedelic trip since.
