The harder you work the luckier you get! Posts: 965 | From Nebraska Cornhuskers fan in Massachusetts | Registered: Dec 2007
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Tracy9
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Don't know if this will help, but we have a Babesia group on www.lymefriends.com. You can sign up and join the group and see if anyone can offer any input.
13 years Lyme & Co.; Small Fiber Neuropathy; Myasthenia Gravis, Adrenal Insufficiency. On chemo for 2 1/2 years as experimental treatment for MG. Posts: 4480 | From Northeastern Connecticut | Registered: Jun 2005
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feelfit
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This is what I have heard, most babesia do not like oxygen.
My experience with HBOT tells me different though. I only had one HBOT session, did not think that I had Babesia.
However, after this one session I now have air hunger.....at least that is what my LLMD said that it was today.
So in my experience, HBOT and babesia are not a good mix.
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As a general guideline, most Babesia and Bartonella that humans get are AEROBIC, which means that they like oxygen.
You will surely not damage an aerobic pathogen by using an oxygen therapy, but you could possibly strengthen it....opinions are mixed on what it will do exactly under pressure.
I personally would not take a chance that it might make things worse for me in the long run, and I surely would not want to waste big money on HBOT until I got rid of Babs.
You might want to give it try if you have money to burn, but this is a luxury I don't have...I have to get the most bang for my buck
Now if you can identify which strain of Babs you have, and then verify that it is anaerobic, then HBOT would be just fine.
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My daughter is dealing w/ severe babesia, however, at this point we've tried almost everything and she is incapacitated. Our LLMD said "usually" he does not prescribe HBOT for people w/ active Babesia, but he is not ruling it out four my daughter...he said at some point, when a patient is so ill and has tried almost everything else- "nothing is contraindicated anymore."
I guess it depends on your LLMD and their particular beliefs.
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WildCondor
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I did it 200 times and it only helped me!!
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200 times is a ton! I'm glad it helped. That's the price of a cheap BMW. Posts: 7545 | From The 5th Dimension - The Twilight Zone | Registered: Mar 2008
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