What Happens When You Use Ketamine Every Day

Ketamine is a medicine that doctors use in hospitals, in a measured amount, for a short time, and with careful monitoring. Using it every day outside a hospital is a very different thing. When use becomes daily, there is no gap for the body to recover. The bladder is irritated again before it has healed from the day before. The brain is affected again before it has settled from the last time. Sleep is broken again before the tiredness from the night before has lifted. That lack of a break is what makes daily use so harmful, even when each single day feels manageable on its own.

This article explains, in plain words, what daily ketamine use does to the body and the mind. It covers why the body never gets a chance to rest, the strain on the bladder and kidneys, the changes in memory, mood, and sleep, the way tolerance grows and dependence takes hold, and the effects on work, study, money, and family life. It also explains what the first weeks after stopping can feel like. It is general information only, not individual medical advice. It gives no instructions for taking ketamine or for obtaining it. If you are worried about your own health, or about someone close to you, a qualified health professional is the right person to talk to.

The most important thing to understand about daily use is that the harm is not only about the amount used on any one day. It is about the fact that the harm never stops. A person who uses ketamine once a month gives their body weeks to recover between uses. A person who uses it every day gives their body no recovery time at all. The damage adds up day after day, and the person may not notice how far it has gone, because each day feels only a little worse than the day before. By the time the change is obvious, months of daily use may already have passed.

What Daily Use Means in Practice

Daily use does not always look dramatic from the outside. A person may still go to work, still eat meals with family, and still keep up appearances. The change is in the shape of the day. The day begins with thinking about ketamine, or with the effects of the night before still wearing off. The middle of the day is broken up by the need to use again, or by the tiredness and fog that follow use. The evening is spent recovering, or planning the next day around the same pattern. Over time, the day is no longer organised around work, family, or rest. It is organised around ketamine.

That shift happens gradually, and it is easy to miss while it is happening. A person may start by using ketamine at weekends, then on a weekday as well, then most days, then every day. Each step feels small, and each step can be justified at the time: a hard day at work, a stressful evening, a friend offering it, a bad night’s sleep. But the steps add up, and the point at which use becomes daily is often passed without a clear decision. It is not usually a choice made in one moment. It is a habit that grows until it fills the week, and then it is hard to remember what a week without ketamine felt like.

Daily use also changes how a person thinks about ketamine itself. At first, it may feel like a choice, something done for fun or for relief. When it becomes daily, it often stops feeling like a choice and starts feeling like a need. The person may feel restless or low if they do not use, and they may use simply to feel normal again. That is a sign that dependence is developing, and it is a sign that the daily pattern has become more than a habit. It has become something the brain expects, and the brain will protest when that expectation is not met.

Why the Body Never Gets a Break

The body is good at repairing itself, but it needs time to do that repair. After a single exposure to a harmful substance, the bladder lining can heal, the kidneys can clear the waste, and the brain can settle back to its normal state. Daily use takes that time away. Before the bladder has healed from yesterday, it is irritated again today. Before the kidneys have cleared one load, another arrives. Before the brain has recovered its normal balance, it is pushed out of balance again. The repair never catches up with the damage.

Sleep is a good example of how this works. The body repairs itself during sleep, especially during deep sleep, and the brain sorts and stores memories during sleep. Daily ketamine use can make sleep lighter and more broken, so the repair that should happen overnight does not happen properly. A person may sleep for hours and still wake up tired, because the sleep was not deep enough to do its work. The next day, they are more tired, more forgetful, and more likely to use ketamine again to get through the day. The tiredness and the use feed each other, and the body never gets the rest it needs to break the cycle.

The same pattern applies to eating and to general health. Daily use can reduce appetite, so meals are skipped or eaten in a hurry. Poor nutrition means the body has fewer resources to repair the bladder, the kidneys, and the brain. The person may lose weight, feel weak, and catch colds more easily. Each of these problems on its own may seem small, but together they leave the body weaker and less able to cope with the next day of use. The body is not being given a chance to recover, and over weeks and months, that lack of recovery becomes the main problem.

The Bladder and Kidneys Under Daily Strain

The bladder is the organ most clearly harmed by repeated ketamine use, and daily use puts it under the greatest strain. Ketamine and the substances it breaks down into pass through the bladder in urine, and they can irritate the bladder lining. When that irritation happens every day, the lining does not have time to heal between exposures. It becomes inflamed, sore, and less able to stretch and hold urine as it should. Health services call this ketamine bladder, and they warn about it because it is common among people who use ketamine heavily and often.

The early signs are usually simple. A person may need to pass urine much more often than before, including several times during the night. Passing urine may sting or burn. There may be a constant feeling of needing to go, even just after going. The lower stomach may ache, or feel tight and uncomfortable. Some people notice blood in their urine. These signs can have other causes, such as a bladder infection, so they do not prove that ketamine is the cause on their own. But in a person who uses ketamine every day, they are a serious warning, and they deserve a prompt check with a health professional rather than being ignored or explained away.

If daily use continues, the bladder can become smaller and stiffer, so it holds less urine and needs to empty more often. The pain can become constant, and it can make it hard to sleep, to work, or to travel. The inflammation can also affect the tubes that carry urine from the kidneys to the bladder, and that can put pressure on the kidneys. Kidney damage is serious, because the kidneys filter waste from the blood, and they do not repair themselves easily. Stopping daily use does not guarantee that the bladder will heal fully, but continuing makes the damage worse, and the sooner use stops, the better the chance that the bladder and kidneys can recover at least in part.

Thinking, Memory and Mood When Every Day Is the Same

Ketamine affects the brain, so daily use affects thinking and mood every day, not just on the days when the effect is strongest. The changes are often gradual. It becomes harder to hold a thought in mind while doing something else. It becomes harder to follow a long conversation, or to remember what was said at the start of it. It becomes harder to learn something new, or to remember a list of things to do. These are the kinds of problems that people often blame on stress or poor sleep, when daily use may be playing a large part.

Mood is affected in a similar way. Ketamine can give a short lift, a feeling of detachment or relief, but that lift is brief, and the low that follows can last much longer. When use is daily, the low becomes the normal state, and the lift becomes shorter and harder to reach. A person may feel flat, anxious, or low most of the time, and may use ketamine again simply to escape that feeling for a while, even though the use itself is helping to keep the low in place. That is one of the cruellest parts of daily use. The thing that is used to feel better is part of what is making the person feel worse.

The sameness of daily use also matters for the mind. When every day follows the same pattern, the brain has less chance to experience the ordinary things that lift mood and sharpen thinking: a good night’s sleep, a meal eaten slowly, a walk outside, a conversation that is not about ketamine. Those ordinary things are not luxuries. They are part of how the brain stays healthy. Daily use pushes them aside, and the mind becomes narrower, more focused on the next use and less able to enjoy anything else. Breaking that sameness is hard, but it is also part of why stopping, with support, can feel like getting a life back, rather than just losing a habit.

Tolerance: Needing More to Feel the Same

Tolerance means that the same amount of a substance has less effect than it used to, so a person needs more to get the same feeling. With daily ketamine use, tolerance can build up quickly, because the brain is exposed to the substance every day and adapts to it. A person who once felt a strong effect from a small amount may find, after weeks of daily use, that the same amount barely registers. The natural response is to take more, or to take it more often, and that raises the total load on the bladder, the kidneys, and the brain.

The problem with tolerance is that it has no clear stopping point. Each increase in amount brings a temporary return of the effect, but the brain adapts again, and more is needed next time. The person is not chasing a better feeling. They are chasing the feeling they used to get, and they are paying a higher price for it each time. The bladder is irritated more, the kidneys work harder, sleep is broken more, and memory and mood suffer more. The cost rises, but the benefit does not. It stays the same, or it falls, because the lift becomes shorter and the low afterwards becomes longer.

Tolerance also makes stopping harder. When a person who has used ketamine every day tries to stop, the brain, which has adapted to the daily presence of the substance, has to readjust. That readjustment can feel uncomfortable: cravings, restlessness, anxiety, low mood, and broken sleep are common in the first days and weeks. These feelings are not a sign that stopping is wrong. They are a sign that the brain is relearning how to work without ketamine, and they usually ease with time and with support. Knowing this in advance can help, because it means the discomfort can be expected and planned for, rather than being a surprise that pushes the person back to daily use.

Sleep, Appetite and Physical Health Day After Day

Sleep, appetite, and physical health are all affected by daily ketamine use, and they are all connected. Poor sleep makes appetite worse. Poor appetite makes the body weaker. A weaker body sleeps worse. The cycle turns day after day, and it is hard to break from inside it, because each part of the cycle makes the other parts worse. That is why health professionals look at the whole picture, not just at one symptom, when they talk to a person who uses ketamine every day.

Sleep is often the first thing to suffer. Ketamine can make sleep lighter and more broken, and it can change the balance of deep sleep and dreaming sleep. A person may find it hard to fall asleep without ketamine, and hard to stay asleep through the night. They may wake up often to pass urine, because the bladder is irritated, and that breaks the sleep further. They may wake up tired, even after many hours in bed, because the sleep was not deep enough to restore them. Over weeks, that tiredness becomes the normal state, and the person may not remember what it felt like to wake up rested.

Appetite and eating are affected too. Some people find that daily use reduces their appetite, so they skip meals or eat less than they need. Others eat in a hurry, or eat poorly, because the day is organised around ketamine rather than around regular meals. Weight may fall, and the body may have fewer nutrients to repair itself. The stomach can also be affected, with cramps, nausea, and pain that come and go. These physical problems are not always linked to ketamine by the person experiencing them, because they can have many causes, but when they appear together in a person who uses ketamine every day, they are worth taking seriously as a sign that the body is under strain.

Work, Study and Family Life

Daily ketamine use does not stay inside the body. It reaches into work, study, and family life, and those effects can be as serious as the physical ones. At work, poor memory, poor sleep, and frequent trips to the toilet make it harder to concentrate and harder to keep up with the demands of the day. A person may start late, miss deadlines, or make mistakes they would not have made before. Over weeks, that can lead to warnings, lost shifts, or lost jobs. Losing a job then adds financial stress and low mood, which can make the use worse, and the cycle continues.

Study is affected in a similar way. Learning needs memory, concentration, and sleep, and daily use undermines all three. A student who uses ketamine every day may find it harder to follow a lesson, harder to remember what was studied the night before, and harder to stay awake and focused during the day. Exams and coursework suffer, not because the student is not trying, but because the brain is not getting the rest and the clarity it needs to learn. That can have long-term effects on education and on future work, and it is one of the reasons that daily use in young people is a particular concern for health services.

Family life suffers in a slower, quieter way. A person who is tired, in pain, low in mood, and preoccupied with ketamine has less to give to the people around them. They may cancel plans, forget promises, or become withdrawn. Family and friends may not understand what is happening, and may feel hurt or pushed away. Trust can wear thin, not because anyone has done something dramatic, but because small disappointments add up over months. The person using ketamine may feel lonely and misunderstood, and the people around them may feel helpless. That loneliness can make the use feel like the only comfort left, even though it is part of what is causing the loneliness. Money is part of this too, because daily use costs money every day, and that cost adds up over a year to a large amount that could have been spent on rent, food, children, or savings.

Stopping After Daily Use: What the First Weeks Can Feel Like

Stopping after daily use is hard, and it is honest to say so. The first days are often the hardest, because the brain has to adjust to the absence of a substance it has come to expect every day. Cravings are common, and they can be strong, especially in the places or situations where use usually happened. Restlessness, anxiety, and low mood are common too. Sleep may be broken for a while, and concentration may feel worse before it feels better. These are not signs that stopping is a mistake. They are signs that the brain is readjusting, and they usually ease over days and weeks, although the timeline is different for each person.

The bladder can also take time to settle. If the bladder has been irritated every day, it will not heal overnight. Pain and frequent urination may continue for a while after stopping, and that can be discouraging. It is important to get the bladder and kidneys checked by a health professional, because the check can show how much damage has been done and what care is needed. Stopping does not guarantee full recovery, but it stops the daily irritation, and that gives the bladder the best chance it has to heal. Continuing daily use, by contrast, guarantees that the damage will go on getting worse.

Support makes a real difference in the first weeks. Talking to a doctor, a drug support service, or a trusted health professional can help a person to plan for cravings, to get help with sleep and mood, and to find practical ways to fill the time that was once spent using ketamine. Family and friends can help too, by being steady, by listening without judgement, and by keeping plans and routines that do not involve ketamine. The first weeks are not easy, but they are survivable, and most people who get through them find that the fog begins to lift, sleep begins to improve, and the day begins to feel like their own again, rather than a day organised around a substance.

The Cost That Adds Up Day After Day

Daily use has a cost that is easy to underestimate, because it is paid in small amounts every day rather than in one large payment. The financial cost is the simplest to count. A person who buys ketamine every day spends money every day, and over a month that spending becomes a large sum, and over a year it becomes larger still. That money comes from somewhere, and the somewhere is usually the rest of life: savings, money meant for rent or food, money that could have been spent on children, on a holiday, or on something that lasts. The financial cost is not only the money spent on the substance itself. It is also the money lost through missed work, through being too tired or too unwell to take a shift, and through hospital visits for bladder pain or other problems.

There is also a cost in time, and time is harder to count but just as real. A day organised around ketamine is a day in which hours are spent using, recovering, planning the next use, or coping with the tiredness and fog that follow. Those hours cannot be spent on work, on study, on family, on rest, or on anything else that matters. Over weeks and months, the hours add up to days and weeks of lost time, and that lost time cannot be recovered. A person may look back after a year of daily use and wonder where the year went, and the answer is that it went, hour by hour, into a pattern that left little room for anything else.

The third cost is the cost to health, and it is the one that is hardest to put a price on. Each day of use adds a little more irritation to the bladder, a little more strain to the kidneys, a little more fog to memory, and a little more weight to low mood. None of these changes on its own may feel dramatic, but together, over months, they change how a person feels, how they think, and how they live. The body keeps a record of every day, even when the person does not, and the record is written in pain, in tiredness, in forgotten things, and in missed chances. That is why daily use is not simply a more frequent version of occasional use. It is a different pattern, with a different total cost, and the cost is paid every single day.

My Take:

I will be honest with you about what strikes me most about daily ketamine use, and it is the lack of a break. A person who uses ketamine once in a while gives their body time to recover. A person who uses it every day gives their body no time at all, and that is the difference that matters most. The bladder is irritated again before it has healed. The brain is pushed again before it has settled. Sleep is broken again before the tiredness has lifted. Each day on its own may feel survivable, but the days add up, and the body keeps a record of every one of them. I think that is the part that is hardest to see from the inside, because each day feels only a little worse than the day before, and a little worse is easy to accept until the total change is already large.

I do not think people who use ketamine every day are foolish, and I do not think they are bad people. Most of them did not set out to use it daily. They started now and then, for reasons that made sense to them, and the use grew by small steps until it filled the week. A hard day at work, a stressful evening, a friend offering it, a bad night’s sleep: each step had a reason, and each step on its own seemed small. That is how daily use usually happens. It is not a single bad decision. It is a habit that grows until it is the shape of the day, and then it is hard to remember what a day without it felt like. I think understanding that matters, because it means the answer is not to blame the person for one decision, but to help them to see the pattern and to find a way out of it.

The bladder is the part I keep coming back to, because it is so concrete and so preventable, and yet so many people only learn about it when they are already in pain. Needing the toilet every hour, through the night, with burning pain, is not a small inconvenience. It changes how you sleep, how you work, how you travel, and how you live. A person who cannot sleep through the night because of bladder pain is tired the next day, and a tired person is more likely to use ketamine again to get through the day. That is a painful loop, and it is one that health services see again and again. If more people understood, before they started using daily, that this is a real and common outcome, I think fewer of them would let the use become daily in the first place.

Tolerance is the part I find hardest to explain to someone who is in the middle of it, because it feels so logical at the time. The same amount stops working, so you take a little more, and it works again. That seems sensible, but it is the brain saying that it has adapted, and that more will be needed next time too. Each increase raises the load on the bladder and the kidneys, and each increase makes the low afterwards a little longer and a little deeper. The person is not getting more pleasure for their money. They are paying more to feel the way they used to feel, and the price is paid in pain, in tiredness, and in a foggy memory. I think that is why outside help matters: a doctor or a support worker can see the climb from the outside, when the person on it can only see the next step.

I also think we need to be honest about how hard stopping is after daily use, and to stop pretending that willpower alone is enough. When a person has used ketamine every day for months, the brain has learned to expect it, the body has adapted to it, and the daily routine has been built around it. Stopping means facing cravings, low mood, broken sleep, and the discomfort of a bladder that may still be sore, and it means doing that while trying to work, to study, or to look after a family. That is a lot to face alone, and I would urge anyone in that position to talk to a health professional, not because they are weak, but because the help exists and it makes stopping far more likely to work. Support services, doctors, and drug services have seen this many times before, and they know how to help a person through the first hard weeks.

Money is a part of daily use that I think about a lot, because it is concrete and it adds up fast. Daily use means daily spending, and over a year that spending becomes a large amount of money. That money is not just spent. It is money that cannot be spent on rent, on food, on children, on a holiday, or on savings for the future. When I think about a person who has used ketamine every day for a year, I think about what that money could have done, and I think about the stress that comes from knowing it is gone. That stress then feeds back into the low mood and the urge to use again. It is a cycle, and the only way out of it is to break the cycle at some point, even if that point feels hard. The money will not come back, but the spending can stop, and that is a real and practical step towards a steadier life.

Relationships are the part that saddens me most, because they break slowly and they are hard to repair. A person who uses ketamine every day does not usually have one big argument that ends a relationship. They miss a few plans, they forget a few promises, they become a little more withdrawn each week, and the people around them slowly learn not to rely on them. That is painful on both sides. The family feels hurt and helpless. The person feels lonely and judged. I think it is worth saying, clearly, that the people around a person who uses ketamine are not the enemy, even when their worry comes out as criticism. They are often the first to see the damage, and their concern is a sign that they care, not that they have given up. If you are that person, listening to them, even when it is hard, may be the most useful thing you do.

Sleep is another part I would ask you to take seriously, because it is so easy to dismiss as a small thing. Broken sleep is not a small thing. It affects memory, mood, patience, and the ability to work. A person who has slept badly for months is not the same person they would be after a month of good sleep. They are more tired, more irritable, less able to think clearly, and less able to cope with stress. Daily ketamine use can disrupt sleep for a long time, and poor sleep then makes the urge to use stronger, because a tired person reaches for anything that promises relief. Getting sleep back is not a luxury. It is part of getting the brain back to a place where it can think clearly and make good decisions, and it is one of the reasons that stopping, with support, can feel so different after a few weeks.

I am also honest about the fact that stopping does not fix everything at once, and I do not want to promise that it does. The bladder may take a long time to heal, and in some cases it may not heal fully. Memory may improve slowly, over months, rather than in days. Mood may lift gradually, with good days and bad days mixed together. That is not a reason to keep using daily. It is a reason to stop sooner, so that the damage does not get worse, and so that the healing, however slow, can begin. Every day without ketamine is a day in which the bladder is not being irritated again, the kidneys are not under the same strain, and the brain is learning to work without the substance. That is real progress, even when it does not feel like it yet, and it is progress that is worth protecting.

If you have used ketamine every day and you are reading this, I would ask you to notice the signals your body is already sending, rather than waiting for a crisis. If passing urine hurts, if you need the toilet far more often than you used to, if your lower stomach aches, if your memory feels weaker, if you feel low most days, if you need more ketamine to feel the same effect, those are not separate problems. They are parts of one pattern, and that pattern has a name and a cause. You do not need to be certain before you ask for help. You only need to be worried enough to talk to a doctor, and a doctor can check the things that matter, such as the bladder and the kidneys, and can talk through the support that is available where you live.

For parents and partners, I would say this: the most helpful thing you can do is to stay steady and to keep the conversation open, even when it is frustrating. Shouting and blame rarely help a person to stop, and they often push the person further away. What helps is clear, honest talk about what you have noticed, and about what you are worried about, without turning it into a judgement of the person. It also helps to look after yourself, because living with someone who uses ketamine every day is tiring and stressful, and you deserve support too. There are services for families as well as for the person using the substance, and using them is not a sign of failure. It is a sign that you are taking the situation seriously, and that you want help for everyone it affects.

Finally, I would say this to anyone who has never used ketamine, or who has only used it once or twice: do not let the daily story start. The short effect may feel interesting or exciting, but the daily effects described in this article are not rare or far-fetched. Bladder damage, kidney strain, memory problems, low mood, tolerance, and dependence are the documented outcomes of heavy, repeated use, and they are the outcomes that health services see again and again. The easiest way to avoid them is not to build a daily habit in the first place. If someone offers you ketamine, or if you are tempted to use it every day because it seems to help with stress or low mood, remember what you have read here. There are better ways to cope with stress, and they do not leave you with a sore bladder, a foggy memory, and a habit that is hard to break. Walk away from daily use, and you will never have to find out how long the recovery takes.

I think the question of who is to blame also needs an honest answer, because blame is the thing that stops many people from asking for help. A person who has used ketamine every day may already blame themselves, and the people around them may blame them too, and that blame becomes another reason to hide the problem and to keep using. I do not think blame helps anyone here. Ketamine is a powerful substance, dependence is a known effect of daily use, and the people who sell it outside a hospital do not warn buyers about bladder damage or kidney strain. A person can take responsibility for stopping, and for getting help, without accepting that they are a bad person for having started. Those are two different things, and keeping them separate matters, because the first one leads to action and the second one only leads to shame.

There is also a practical point that I think is worth making plainly, and it is about time. Every day of continued use adds to the total load on the bladder and the kidneys, and every day of stopping takes that load away. That does not mean that a person who has used ketamine every day for a long time is beyond help, and it does not mean that the damage is fixed the day they stop. It means that time works in both directions, and that the decision to stop, whenever it is made, is still worth making. The person who stops early recovers more fully, and the person who stops late still recovers more than the person who never stops. If you are reading this and you have been putting off that decision, I would ask you to think about it not as a judgement on your past, but as a practical choice about your future, and to make it sooner rather than later, with help from someone who knows how to support you through it.

One more thing worth remembering is that recovery, when it happens, is not only about the body. It is also about getting a day back. A person who stops using ketamine every day often finds, over months, that they have more money, more energy, more time, and more patience for the people around them. They sleep better. They remember more. They feel less flat. Those changes do not arrive all at once, and they do not arrive without effort, but they do arrive, and they are worth working for. If you are in the middle of that effort, or if you are thinking about starting it, I would say: keep going, get help, and give your body the time it needs to heal. It has carried a heavy load every day for a long time, and it deserves a break, and so do you.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why does daily Ketamine use build tolerance?

Daily use builds tolerance because the brain is exposed to ketamine every day and adapts to it. The same amount that once had a strong effect begins to have less effect, so a person needs more to feel the same way. That increase raises the total load on the bladder, the kidneys, and the brain, and it makes the low mood and tiredness afterwards worse. Tolerance is a sign that the brain has adapted to regular use, and it is one of the reasons that daily use is hard to stop without support.

What happens when you use Ketamine every day?

When you use ketamine every day, the body never gets a break to recover. The bladder is irritated again before it has healed, the brain is affected again before it has settled, and sleep is broken again before the tiredness has lifted. Over weeks and months, that daily strain can lead to bladder pain and frequent urination, kidney strain, weaker memory and concentration, low mood, tolerance, and dependence, as well as knock-on effects on work, study, money, and family life.

Can daily Ketamine use damage your health?

Yes. Daily ketamine use can damage the bladder, causing frequent and painful passing of urine and lower stomach pain, and it can strain the kidneys and the liver. It can also weaken memory and concentration, lower mood, disrupt sleep, reduce appetite, and lead to tolerance and dependence. These harms build up because there is no gap between uses for the body to recover. Any of these signs deserves a prompt check with a qualified health professional.

Is daily Ketamine use addictive?

Yes, daily use can lead to dependence, which is often what people mean by addiction. The brain adapts to the daily presence of ketamine, and stopping can bring cravings, restlessness, anxiety, low mood, and broken sleep. A person may feel that they need ketamine simply to feel normal, and may use it even when they know it is harming them. That is not a failure of character. It is how dependence develops, and it is why help from a health professional makes stopping far more likely to work.

How does daily Ketamine use affect work?

Daily use can affect work through poor memory, poor sleep, and frequent trips to the toilet, which make it harder to concentrate and harder to keep up with the demands of the day. A person may start late, miss deadlines, or make mistakes they would not have made before. Over weeks, that can lead to warnings, lost shifts, or lost jobs. The financial stress of lost work can then make the low mood and the urge to use worse, so the effects on work and on health feed each other.

What happens if you stop daily Ketamine use?

Stopping after daily use can be hard at first. Cravings, restlessness, anxiety, low mood, and broken sleep are common in the first days and weeks, as the brain readjusts to working without ketamine. Bladder pain and frequent urination may also continue for a while. These feelings usually ease with time and with support, and sleep, memory, and mood often improve gradually over weeks and months. Talking to a doctor or a drug support service before stopping can help a person to plan for the first weeks and to get the bladder and kidneys checked.

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This article is general information only. It is not individual medical advice. If you are worried about your health, talk to a qualified health professional.