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The following report is from a hospital setting in the Republic of Panama. The patient is a physician who had become dependent on 600mg of Demerol a day and had attempted to stop his drug use a number of times without success. The hospital has a particular interest in this subject because he is a doctor and he could provide us with a more professional insight about the result of his treatment and journey. The doctor had received four different doses. The first day he received 100mg (test doses #1) when he had taken his ibogaine dose, he went to bed and stay laying down. “He felt nothing, until the medical staff arrived to do the 1- hour tests. He was surprised, because in his mental measurements, He taught he had taken ibogaine about 20 minutes earlier” He was feeling photophobia and every little noise seem to be much louder than, that in reality. It was very disturbing and uncomfortable for him.
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The next 2 hours the symptoms got worse. He said “He felt very tired, and the only thing he wanted was to rest in bed. Each head movement seemed to make things worse”. “After the 3-hour test, the symptoms were disappearing”. He reported that he was very hungry and he wanted to eat. After he hate he felt nauseated. For the following hours “he felt nothing except for a sensation that his mind images were richer in details than before, like a 3-D movie”. He began to start feeling normal he hate with no nausea, slept very well, and awaken in very good condition.

Second day: 25mg (test doses #2) everything was the same he felt no different from his normal state.

Third Day: 10mg/kg (experimental dose). The doctor said he felt different, like he had smoke marijuana. “He was very calm and relaxed and all the tension of the beginning of the procedure was gone”. ** “The room seemed to be a little different and the colors around me sharper than normal”. Everything thing seem out of place the light and sound were disturbing him. When he closed his eye he began to see images that appeared in screens, exactly like TV or cinema screens. They appear in difference sizes and then they would get bigger as “I focused my attention on them. Sometime they appears small and would then begin to grow, like I was walking in their direction, and sometimes they were going from left to right” **
 * Fifth day: (20mm/kg). After the Doctor had the fifth dose he began to have images of his childhood he saw himself playing in his father’s farm, riding a motorcycle and playing with his cousin. He understood that he had a happy childhood and there is no one to blame for his addition but himself. He also saw the mistakes he had made in his life. Seeing his childhood and the mistake he had made he decided very strongly that he will never use Demerol again. “Now I can see very clearly that I don’t need Demerol to live my life. And I feel better if I don’t use it. During the first 8 hours after taking the ibogaine I vomited four or five times, always when I tried to move. I was able to sleep about 4:00 a.m. and to eat only about 9:00 the following day. I wakened feeling better and in the morning of the following day I was normal” **


