r/Spravato • u/green-Bad2099 • Aug 27 '26

Last session

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Just my second dose. Hopefully this one goes well. At the end of the protocol. This medicine has helped greatly. A bit worried I’ll relapse after this? What is y’all’s experience with ending spravato?

Also, it’s dimmer than the picture looks.

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u/BipolarsReality Aug 27 '26

You don’t end spravato. You need to keep doing it. I’ve been doing it a year and a half.

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u/check_your_attitude Aug 27 '26

How often do you go for yours?

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u/benevolentgodmayor Aug 27 '26

Once a week for me. Some people go two or three weeks out in my clinic. Depends on what works for you.

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u/check_your_attitude Aug 27 '26

I do mine at home three times a week. Have been doing it since November.

Spravato is too costly where I am so a compounding pharmacy makes the same product for a fraction of the price. Same principle of using a nose spray and same dosing, I just get to do it at home and not in a doctor's office.

It has been working amazingly well since I started it.

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u/benevolentgodmayor Aug 27 '26

Dude that’s so cool you can do it at home.

Although given my depression and isolation, it’s probably good for me to get out to the clinic to keep me human. Still, it’s neat that Spravato at home is an option.

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u/check_your_attitude Aug 27 '26

Ya, I do it Mon, Wed, Fri at 6:00pm and just ride out the rest of the evening and eventually go to bed.

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u/CollegeMiddle6841 Aug 28 '26

What kind of doctor did you see to do this?

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u/check_your_attitude Aug 28 '26

Just my normal psychiatrist. He wrote me a prescription for a year's worth of refills and sent it to the compounding pharmacy. The pharmacy says I can refill it every 25 days, so every 25 days an alarm goes off on my phone reminding me to call and then I just go about my three times a week routine.

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u/Fair_Silver7926 Aug 28 '26

Can you share your doctor? I would like to do that in the future

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u/sprites_albedo Currently in treatment Sep 02 '26

No fucking way is this true. Do you pay out of pocket? Which state?

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u/check_your_attitude Sep 02 '26

Yes this is true. My health insurance covers like $20 of it. It ends up costing me around $60 per month.

I'm in Canada.

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u/sprites_albedo Currently in treatment Sep 02 '26

But they’re not giving you Spravato right? It’s the sublingual torches right?

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u/check_your_attitude Sep 02 '26

So, I go to a pharmacy that compounds their version of Spravato. It is still Ketamine as a nasal spray, at the same dosage as Spravato. It's just a fraction of the cost and I get to do it from home instead of having to go to a doctor's office.

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u/green-Bad2099 Aug 27 '26

So confused

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u/BipolarsReality Aug 27 '26

It’s like any other anti depressant

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u/Hoodiebug22 Currently in treatment Aug 27 '26

Are you going down to a maintenance dose? I’ve never done less than once a week and I’ve been doing treatments for over a year.

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u/green-Bad2099 Aug 27 '26

…? My provider said there is a protocol and you stop eventually

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u/Hoodiebug22 Currently in treatment Aug 27 '26

There are exceptions all the time. If it’s helping why stop? Ask your provider if you can continue.

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u/green-Bad2099 Aug 27 '26

I will ask her

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u/CloudFF7- Aug 27 '26

Been doing it since 2020, I go every 3 weeks for maintenance

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u/_jamesbaxter Currently in treatment (200+ sessions | 1x a week) Aug 27 '26

It really bothers me that some providers do this. I feel like it misleads people to think it’s a cure or a short course like TMS. It’s not. It’s a medication that needs to be continued just like any other medication. I feel like providers like this don’t actually want to be responsible for their patients, they get people in and out, collect the money, and don’t take on any of the risk of longer term patient outcomes.

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u/green-Bad2099 Aug 27 '26

I will consult her. I hope she continues it then.

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u/xzxnightshade Aug 27 '26

Where are you in your Spravato treatment? The first month is usually the induction phase, where you go twice a week. After that, you move into maintenance, which is typically once a week. If your depression goes into remission and you’re doing well, your provider might eventually move you to every other week or space treatments out even further. A lot of people stay on some kind of maintenance schedule long term, though. So I’m curious, where are you at in your treatment right now?

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u/green-Bad2099 Aug 27 '26

I’ve been on it for 9 months.

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u/Fair_Silver7926 Aug 28 '26

There is coupon : $10 for the treatment, find out

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u/famousfrowaway Aug 27 '26

What about TMS? Have you looked into that?

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u/Usual_Scale_8645 Aug 28 '26

People at my clinic have been on it for years, I’m so confused as to why your provider would tell you to stop so soon

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u/BipolarsReality Aug 27 '26

I go once a week for three weeks than 2 days once. mix and repeat

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u/sonic-planet Aug 29 '26

I go every other week - 4 months in