Now accepting new patients
Now accepting new patients
When two or more antidepressants have not worked, depression can start to feel permanent. It is not. Spravato (esketamine) is the only FDA approved nasal spray for adults with treatment resistant depression, and it works in a completely different way than the pills you have already tried. At Best Life Psychiatry, Spravato is given in our Benton office under careful medical supervision.
FDA approved
for treatment resistant depression in adults, and for depressive symptoms in adults with major depressive disorder who have acute suicidal thoughts or behavior
Given in office
as a nasal spray, alongside an oral antidepressant
Supervised
with about 2 hours of monitoring after each dose for your safety
Covered
by most insurance plans, including Medicare and Tricare
Most antidepressants work on serotonin and can take weeks to build up. Spravato works on a different brain system, the glutamate system, which is involved in how brain cells connect and adapt. For people with treatment resistant depression, that different pathway can mean relief when the usual options have fallen short. Spravato is always used together with an oral antidepressant, never entirely on its own.
Because every Spravato dose includes a period of in office monitoring, scheduling matters. Best Life Psychiatry now offers weekend appointments for Spravato, making it easier to fit treatment around work and family.
