happygeek :unverified: + :verified: = $0<p>Ever feel like the world is conspiring against you?<br>Phone call from the (very good) NHS pain clinic secretary to let me know that I can't have any more ketamine infusions until the issue with my heart is sorted out as it's a contraindication. I was due the next in three weeks as I have them every month.</p><p>OK. But.</p><p>The echocardiogram I was meant to have privately was cancelled by the referring anaesthetist because my arm surgery is in the process of being transferred to the NHS - under the same surgical team. If the pre-surgery assessment ECG shows up anything amiss they will do the echo then.</p><p>I have no date for the surgery, hence no date for a pore-surgical assessment, hence no Ketamine infusions for, quite possibly, many months.</p><p>Oh well, it's only excruciating chronic pain - nothing to see here. When it's decided if/if not my heart really is an issue and my pain consultant (if not) can do the infusions again, it will take at least 4-6 weeks to arrange, pushing it even further into the foggy future.</p><p>Is it too early to start drinking?</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/CRPS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CRPS</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/chronicillness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chronicillness</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/pain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pain</span></a></p>