Hi artman and welcome to the board!
I read your post with interest but I'm afraid I can't be of much help to you as far as knowledge of a doctor that will Rx Ketamine. I do understand your frustration as I also have a low-grade/refractory depression with bipolar features (I get recurrent severe depression but not mania; the low grade depression is probably related to the chronic pain and feeling lousy with little to no energy most of the time) as well as several chronic pain issues, mainly severe fibromyalgia (I say severe because of the level of pain meds I need to be on to just function). I have anxiety also...and have tried just about every antidepressant through the years. I'm now on a combo of meds that seems to help somewhat.
So if empathy helps you, you've got that at least
The people on this board are experienced and thoughtful, and live in various areas of the country, so I'm hoping someone here will be able to help you.
I've not read much about Ketamine but I plan to ask my psy-doc next month about it...I've almost been sent for ECT a few years back, so severity wise it might be something I would try, at the doses you mentioned, for the recurrent depression.
You mentioned UCLA has some use of it in infusions? I'm sure you've contacted them to see if there are any research programs they are running, or otherwise some way you could get the treatment there?
Keep us posted if you find any providers or research (maybe check the large teaching hospitals around the country?) I'm at least interested in finding out if this might be a helpful treatment. God bless and wish you all the best.
~~~LadyBassPlayer~~~trisha~~