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Has anyone tried this and gotten results? Like most of you, I am broke and have tried everything else but I was told this was the answer. Worth the money??
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sammy
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Hyperbaric oxygen treatments can be helpful but I don't believe that they alone will cure you. If you try HBOT you will still need to treat the coinfections with antibiotics and or herbs.
I tried HBOT last year (80+ dives). It seemed to help at first. I definitely herxed and started to notice improvements. Unfortunately my coinfection symptoms got worse during the second set of treatments. I was still very sick when I finished.
If you do a search here you will see that others have had mixed responses. Some people do well with HBOT, some get worse, some have no change. No one can predict how you will feel.
A former member WildCondor got well by using HBOT and antibiotics. She shares her experience and a wealth of information on her website. Be sure to check it out. When I was searching for information she helped answer most all of my questions.
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I just finished 40 treatments three weeks ago. I didn't use abx while I did the treatments. I'm not sure if there will be any lasting benefit. My exhaustion seemed to improve slightly towards the end of the treaments. I may give it another try even though it's so expensive and I am headed to brokesville. It just seems like it should work and I know it has worked for some people and not for others... I don't know why... wish I could give a definitive answer but I think it's kind of crapshoot. I wish I could give you a definitive answer but I'm still trying to figure out if there is any lasting benefit. I will try to update in another 4 weeks.
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I've heard mixed results. For some, great; for others, not the key.
Someone I know did 40 dives, and the improvement came after the 33rd one. Said their pain went from like a 10 to a 2.
Someone else I know did them, did so-so, then went to India for stem cell injections, which worked very well and restored her health for the time being. So, like everything, we're all different when it comes to what works.
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Twenty five dives. Minor benefits that did not last. Not worth the money and time for me.
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Isn't it awesome that they can't just tell us what to do to fix this???? We just have to keep spending time and money and just give everything a shot!! AHHHHH! Anyway, thank you for the input!
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You can do a search using my member number and HBOT. I did do 40+ dives. I did see improvements but they did not last once I stopped the dives.
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Thanks:}
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I did 44 dives in a monoplace chamber and it made me feel better while I was doing it but did not cure me in any way....I regressed back to my former state after the dives....I think it's natural to feel better while you're doing them as you are having oxygen pumped through your body and our bodies always feel so inflamed....If I had the choice again, I would not do it...
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When I waas younger I did two separate sessions of 40+ dives (while on antibiotics) and they were the only thing that worked for me- while I was herxing I even started showing symptoms that I hadn't shown in years, which I guess meant that the oxygen was digging in deep enough to kill off the older symptoms that were, for lack of a better word, dormant. I just found out there's a possibility that my Lyme resurfaced again and the first thing I did was see if there are HBOT centers in my area. Some people don't respond to it, which is really unfortunate, but everything with treating Lyme seems to be that way. I went through about 6 different antibiotcs before I found one that I didn't deveolop a tolerance against.
For me (and my parents since I was so young at the back then) it was, and will be if necessary. worth the money... my mother even got re-embursed from the insurance company for my second round of treatment because the first was so effective.
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