{"id":277444,"date":"2025-11-22T15:32:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T15:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/277444\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T15:32:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T15:32:14","slug":"ketamine-left-me-incontinent-says-gwynedd-man-who-became-addicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/277444\/","title":{"rendered":"Ketamine left me incontinent, says Gwynedd man who became addicted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The steep rise shown in the Betsi Cadwaladr area is because the drug is  becoming &#8220;commonplace&#8221;, according to Dr James Sutherland, the clinical lead for urology, at Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;One patient told me he can go to the end of his road and score a high,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s cheap as well, so people are spending maybe only \u00a35 on what is a high for an evening or a party, and I think it has become more socially acceptable to use ketamine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Sutherland said the main issues he sees in patients is bladder pain caused by blockages, with some needing stents inserted to drain the kidneys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Many users manage that pain by using even more ketamine, said Dr Sutherland, and some patients end up having their bladders removed entirely, living with a stoma for the rest of their lives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The symptoms tend to start as kind of urinary urgency and frequency so people become unable to hold on to their urine,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;From there people then develop blood in their urine, and [they] may become incontinent, and end up becoming dependent on adult nappies, which for young adults is really challenging.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The steep rise shown in the Betsi Cadwaladr area is because the drug is becoming &#8220;commonplace&#8221;, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-277444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}