Kidney & bladder problems

The kidneys, together with the liver and the intestines, are the great ‘cleaners’ of your body. The kidneys work hard to remove the (harmful) substances from drugs. Waste products go to the bladder via the kidneys. There, the bladder stores the urine for a while before you pee.

If you use a lot of ketamine, this can cause problems in the urinary tract. The urinary tract runs from the kidneys, via the bladder to the urethra. Ketamine causes the bladder to become inflamed. This inflammation makes the bladder less flexible and therefore smaller. For example, you have to urinate more often because the bladder can store less urine, with the result that the bladder overflows, as it were. The more and the longer you use, the worse this gets. The pain can be very intense.

If you numb the bladder by snorting ketamine, it seems as if the symptoms decrease. But that is because you numb the pain with the ketamine. The symptoms only come obvious when you have not used ketamine for a while. The problems in the bladder are there, but you don’t feel them or you feel them less.

Even with less than daily use there are already signals that there may be complaints.

Click here for a detailed explanation of ketamine and bladder problems.