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Has anyone with Lyme and Babesia taken HBOT treatments? If so what were your results?
I have read Babesia likes oxygen but Lyme does not...so not sure if I should try to push back lyme with this treatment.
Any experience or thoughts about this?
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Sammi
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I have heard that HBO is not good if you have Babs. I suggest talking with your doctor about this.
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Yes, I've done HBOT with Lyme and Babesia.
I see a great LLMD, he recommended that I try the treatments with IV antibiotics, antimalarials, and support supplements. I was very very sick at that time.
The HBOT helped to significantly reduce my Lyme symptoms. It helped with my cognitive symptoms and my neuro symptoms. I did 2 sets of 40 treatments with 4 weeks break in between.
Afterwards my Lyme symptoms were reduced but I still struggled greatly with the coinfections. The HBOT treatments did not make my coinfections worse. The HBOT simply was not effective in treating the coinfections so they needed more focused, individual treatments. Make sense?
Sadly for me it seems like whatever treatment I have tried I get some progress and knock the most troublesome infection down for awhile and then another infection will come back up to the forefront. I knock that one down and another comes up again. The cycle repeats. It is like a horrible game of "whack-a-mole".
If you are thinking about HBOT, talk with your doctor, see if it is right for you. It can be helpful for Lyme. Some people have better luck getting rid of co's once they knock down Lyme.
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Thanks so much for your responses. Sammi I have read this too that it is not good for babs. Sammy I have read of others with babs who also were helped by HBOT. Unfortunately my doctor does not really believe in anything but ABX.
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