470+ Patient Reviews

Chronic pain from a spinal injury for 4 years. The ibogaine addressed both the addiction and the pain perception. My brain's relationship to pain signals changed fundamentally. Average daily pain from 9/10 to 2/10. Managing without opioids for the first time in 4 years.

Military sexual trauma is the thing nobody wants to talk about. The VA wasn't equipped to help me. The MindScape team was. The ibogaine session was 18 hours of confronting not just the assault but the institutional failure. My PCL-5 went from 57 to 15. I finally feel like the assault doesn't define me.

First responder PTSD is real and compounding. After 6 years on the job I was drinking to sleep, jumping at car horns. The MindScape protocol included pre-session therapy to identify specific incidents. The ibogaine brought them up in sequence. The nightmares stopped within a week. My PCL-5 went from 68 to 17. I'm still on the job, but I'm different now.

I came on fentanyl and the stabilization process alone took 2 days. The ibogaine session was physically overwhelming. When it passed, I felt better but not well. The withdrawal lasted in a diminished form for about ten days. I relapsed once, three weeks after, and am now 16 months clean after starting intensive outpatient therapy. The ibogaine helped break the acute physical dependency but my recovery required much more.

The ibogaine session was eye-opening psychologically. I understood things about my drinking that 9 years of therapy hadn't surfaced. But understanding why you drink doesn't automatically stop you from drinking. I relapsed three weeks after coming home. I went back to meetings and I'm now 14 months sober using a combination of AA and what I learned. The ibogaine was valuable but not sufficient on its own.

I came for generalized anxiety and the session triggered what felt like a prolonged panic attack. The medical team monitored my vitals and reassured me. After it passed, my baseline anxiety was lower — like my nervous system had been pushed to maximum and then reset. My GAD-7 dropped but the experience itself was traumatic.

Coming from a medical background, I was deeply skeptical. But after 6 years of failed conventional treatments and watching my practice dissolve, I had nothing to lose. The clinical setup at MindScape surprised me — proper EKG monitoring, liver panels, electrolyte management. The ibogaine session was 32 hours of the most intense self-reflection I've ever experienced. What struck me was the complete absence of withdrawal symptoms the following morning. I'd been taking 120mg of oxycodone daily and expected agony. Instead, I felt clear. 14 months later, I remain clean.

Three concussions from football left me with chronic cognitive impairment. The ibogaine was the first intervention that produced measurable improvement after 15 years. Processing speed improved by 52 percent. I can read for more than 20 minutes without my head pounding.

The ibogaine session was eye-opening psychologically. I understood things about my drinking that 5 years of therapy hadn't surfaced. But understanding why you drink doesn't automatically stop you from drinking. I relapsed three weeks after coming home. I went back to meetings and I'm now 4 months sober using a combination of AA and what I learned. The ibogaine was valuable but not sufficient on its own.

Getting off methadone with ibogaine was not the clean break I was hoping for. The bridging protocol took 3 days, and the ibogaine addressed maybe 60 percent of the withdrawal. The remaining was still significant. I spent ten days at MindScape and another three weeks at home feeling genuinely unwell. I'm 3 months methadone-free now, but the post-acute withdrawal was substantially longer than expected.

Military blast exposure resulted in TBI with persistent symptoms for 12 years. The session was about 29 hours. Improvement in cognitive clarity was gradual but unmistakable. Neuropsych testing confirmed improvement across 3 cognitive domains.

Three overdoses. Two rounds of Narcan. One flatline. That was my last year on fentanyl before I came to Cozumel. The cardiac screening was incredibly thorough — they found a prolonged QTc interval that needed to be addressed before we could proceed. That actually increased my confidence in the program. The session was a full-body experience lasting 29 hours. The cravings began lifting before the session was even over. 10 months later, my toxicology screens are clean.

Everyone told me ibogaine was dangerous quackery. I'd also been through five rehab programs, spent $180,000 on treatment, and was still using within weeks of each discharge. The MindScape medical protocol was more rigorous than any rehab I'd attended. 25 hours into the session, I relived the moment my father died — the event I'd been numbing for 3 years. The emotional release was indescribable. When the ibogaine cleared my system, the cravings had cleared with it. I'm 5 months clean.

First responder PTSD is real and compounding. After 8 years on the job I was drinking to sleep, jumping at car horns. The MindScape protocol included pre-session therapy to identify specific incidents. The ibogaine brought them up in sequence. The nightmares stopped within a week. My PCL-5 went from 64 to 20. I'm still on the job, but I'm different now.

The ibogaine addressed my depression in a way I didn't expect. Instead of a temporary neurochemical reset, it surfaced the specific experiences and beliefs feeding my depression for decades. I saw the moment I decided I wasn't worthy of happiness. Seeing it allowed me to question it. My PHQ-9 went from 22 to 5 at my 30-day follow-up.

Military sexual trauma is the thing nobody wants to talk about. The VA wasn't equipped to help me. The MindScape team was. The ibogaine session was 32 hours of confronting not just the assault but the institutional failure. My PCL-5 went from 66 to 20. I finally feel like the assault doesn't define me.

Alcohol and I had a 2-year relationship. The ibogaine session revealed the anxiety disorder underneath my alcoholism. When that underlying driver was addressed, the compulsion evaporated. I'm 24 months sober.

The session was harder than expected for a substance most people haven't heard of. My kratom use was 24 grams daily and the withdrawal had always been severe. The ibogaine helped with the physical aspects but the 36 hours of intense visions were more than I bargained for. I'm clean at 2 months but it was grueling, not the gentle reset some portray.

MindScape's combined protocol delivered beyond my expectations. The ibogaine provided 23 hours of deeply personal processing. The 5-MeO-DMT provided 24 minutes of transpersonal experience. I came for depression. I left with a permanent change in how I relate to suffering. 12 months later, no regression.

My doctor told me I had about two years before my liver failed. The ibogaine session was 27 hours of understanding why I was slowly killing myself. Since treatment, 1 months ago, I haven't had a drink. My latest labs show my liver function improving.

I stopped feeling anything in 2008. Not sad exactly — just flat. My psychiatrist called it anhedonia and we tried 4 medications. The ibogaine session was the first time in 9 years I felt genuine emotion. I cried from relief that I could still feel. My PHQ-9 dropped from 26 to 7. I went home and listened to an album I used to love and it sounded beautiful again.

I've had Parkinson's for 9 years and was on the medication treadmill. I researched ibogaine's effects on GDNF and neuroplasticity. My UPDRS motor score went from 46 to 16 at my two-month follow-up. My handwriting improved to the point where I can take notes again. My neurologist is cautiously intrigued.

Binge drinking pattern. I wouldn't drink for days, then I'd consume an entire bottle in a night. The session was 29 hours of understanding the anxiety that drove my binges. 12 months without a single binge.

I was using heroin, methamphetamine, and alcohol simultaneously. No treatment program wanted the complexity. MindScape designed a protocol addressing opioid dependence first, then integration work and 5-MeO-DMT for stimulant and alcohol components. 22 months clean from all three. First time in 10 years completely sober.