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Originally posted by Kaibyrd:
No, I don’t really dive much any more. Every time I try, I end up much worse fatigue wise and my sleep gets worse if I try to push through. I tried again last week but I have a vacation coming up next week that I need energy for so I stopped after 3 days at 20 minutes. I’ll try again after vacay but I think I’ll try every other day this time. I did a sauna session after the first dive last week but I think I need much more detox. My brain is so scrambled and so much of life is a struggle that I forget to do things like detox every day.

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Originally posted by Kaibyrd:
Phoiph,

I thought that sauna use would help transport released toxins from the body through sweating. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I’ll try to get some yoga in instead after vacation and recovery from vacation. 🤪

Thanks!

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Originally posted by LadyT:
Hi All, Does mHBOT heal histamine issues - so after diving for a certain period of time, you no longer need to watch histamines, eat low histamine diet, etc. Thank you!

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Originally posted by Miriama:
Hi guys,

When people refer to a certain amount of time in the chamber, does that mean total time or time at high pressure? I had to dial down to only 15 minutes at the top pressure on my Newtowne gauge (4.4?), but I'm in there for a half hour total.

I've been treating for over a year, since Feb. 2021 with a 2 month break, but honestly a lot of my sessions were very short, especially in the first 5 months. After that I was doing an hour without a concentrator. I was even up to 2 hours for a while. Then I got a concentrator in September. I was hitting the treatments hard for a while, at an hour, but I had to dial it down not to be insane. I mean, I think I have friends who don't write me back because I was too wound up. I really had my heart set on the idea that if I could treat for an hour a day for 2 to 2 1/2 years I'd be somewhere between 60 percent better and in a remission. But at this rate that will take the rest of my natural life.

On a positive note guys, when I took 2 months off after 13 months of treatment, I was the sanest I've been in 12 years maybe even 19 (that's how long I've had Lyme). I was like myself again psychologically speaking, well, sort of. I had fatigue and all kinds of symptoms for sure, and no way could I keep down a job, but I'd say that 90% of the anxiety and agoraphobia were gone. But as soon as I started treating again, I could feel the acid trippyness creep back in.

That's my experience so far, just to share. Kaibyrd and Keikko, I feel your pain, really. It's been hard. But it has helped a lot in the end too. I hope you can treat enough to get to that point eventually. Good luck to you all.

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Originally posted by keikko:
Thank you Miriama

What is final word on HBOT and parasites. Ive been looking through the thread for a couple of days and cant find it of course.

Im pretty sure I have an underlying parasite infection that doesn't help things. I think I remember reading that eventually the immune system gets back on line and these things are not a big issue anymore but I could be wrong.

Honesty, I have no idea anymore what the biggest issue is. I sort of dont care, but if HBOT doesn't help parasites I may have to treat. Im so thin with no appetite but eat no matter what.

Im still not up to full protocol but still diving at least every other day and sometimes two days in a row depending on the reaction and how bad my brain gets...about 40 minutes with O2. Ive pretty much given up on supplements at the moment except probiotics and CBD oil for anxiety.

I got covid this year so I think that was a set back for sure but I'm sure the chamber will help.

I do remember one day in the recent past getting out of the chamber feeling sort of clear headed and calm. It was nice. Short lived but nice.

I have not noticed a whole lot of forward improvement yet but as I said I got covid and seems like Im always catching something lately. Well one thing that has improved is my digestion is much more stable which is awesome. Brain is worse but gut is better. Fatigue worse. I am not discouraged though. Feel calm or maybe just really tired. I dont know. Thank you

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Originally posted by carbokitty:
I ended up doing a 30 min session and it went well. I felt better for a few hours. I will do 30 again today. Thank you for your words of support.
Carbokitty
PS My Sp02 has gone up so that's a good sign. Not sleeping any longer than 4 hours/night but I wasn't sleeping at all, so that's progress.

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Originally posted by bodhi:
Does anyone here have experience preventing or working through panic attacks during mHBOT?

Please let me know if you have any other suggestions or experiences to share.

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Does anyone here have experience preventing or working through panic attacks during mHBOT?

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Hi bodhi:

When I first started diving I did suffere a panic attack, here is the post I made on it.

Hi Everyone,

After weeks of reading I have finally completed this entire thread. I wanted to say thank you to all who have posted their stories and also say a hello to the lurkers, as I was until now, who follow this thread. I confess, towards the last few pages, I started to feel a bit of anxiety, as the stories I have read have offered me hope that I may one day get better. As I went from page to page, and saw your updates and histories, each new page offered hope and encouragement, and a bit selfishly, I did not want the pages to end. I see myself reflected in so many stories here. My story is I have come to believe I been sick since I was in my teens.

I went un/misdiagnosed for many years, until, like many, I narrowed my issues down to Lyme (have vague memories of a bad insect bite as a teen camping). Managed to get my blood sent to a US lab (I live in Canada) and it came back positive for Lyme and co-infections. I am in the club of 10s of thousands of dollars spent, over the years trying to get well, or better at least. A few years ago I thought I was on my way out, looking positively skeletal, GI issues (antibiotics were hard on me), and no appetite, super fatigued and mush for a brain.

I decided to look into oxygen therapies as a kind of last hope of stopping my decline. I looked at ozone (MAH) and hyperbaric. At the time I decided to go with ozone and I feel like it saved my life. Even from the first treatment I could feel the fog and fatigue lift from my body and at the end of 6 months I was having people tell me how great I looked. I did feel better, not great, still lots of joint/muscle pain, but my weight is back on, GI issues cleared and I could read and think again at a level that was tolerable. That was 4 years ago and although I am maintaining, I am not advancing, after the initial progress, in any meaningful way I can discern. I came across Phoenix Rising and that lead me to here. After reading the first page I knew I was going to go diving. I purchased a chamber, Airsoak model “Nova” and have been diving for 43 days. Made the decision to purchase the Nova, as living in Canada, 1.5 ATA is permissible and the Nova is built for higher pressures and ships with both 1.3 and 1.5 ATA valves. One on the earlier links posted in this thread showed a graph where it showed 1.5 ATA at the top of the bell curve for oxygen saturation, and if I figured it couldn’t hurt to have that option.

Thanks to you guys, and especially Phoiph, I had clear path to follow on just how to correctly do this. I was even more conservative than the recommendations, I started my first dive at 1.15 ATA (the Nova has both internal, and external, pressure gauges, and I used the internal relief valve to control things manually) for 15 minutes. I did this for 3 days, and then went to 1.3 ATA for 4 days at 15 minutes. Then added 5 minutes every 3 days until I hit 30 minutes, this was done with oxygen flowing into the chamber, but not directly breathing it

At thirty minutes, I decided that I would start to slowly add oxygen to my dive sessions; I would start with 5 minutes and increase every 3-4 dives. However, after my first oxygen session I had an attack of vertigo. Now this was not my first time experiencing vertigo, but not for many years. It unsettled me a bit, so I went back to diving without oxygen with the idea of working my way up until 1 hour, then adding back the oxygen when I reached there.

Things went smoothly for me, uneventfully working my way up until an hour and then when I added back the oxygen once again, an event, I suffered a panic attack later that night, first in over 2 decades. As an aside, I would add that my dreams had become more vivid, not nightmares in any way, just colourful and “bright”. As a note, I have zero issues with claustrophobia or small spaces.

The panic attack did not unsettle me too badly, not as much as the vertigo did, as I had them for many years, about 20 years ago, so I knew what I was experiencing (after being diagnosed I learned panic attacks/vertigo were not uncommon in Lyme patients). So once again I returned to diving without oxygen, trying to settle in once more. After a few days, I decided to try to add back in the oxygen, but this time I changed things up. Instead of starting it at the beginning of the dive, at full pressure, I am now doing it at the end. I have been adding 1 minute each day and today did 5 minutes with no issues, feeling good so far. I figured if I started at the end, the oxygen I am breathing will not be under pressure the same way starting it at the begging would have it, giving my body more time to becoming more acclimatized to getting saturated with oxygen.

I will be adding a minute a day over the coming weeks until my oxygen matches my diving time. My thoughts are that this is a very powerful therapy, to be treated with a lot of respect. I started out with what I thought was a conservative program, but those critters in me let me know they did not like me poking at them with oxygen under pressure. I say under pressure because I have breathed pure oxygen before for long periods of time, over the years, and never had any aberrant reactions at any time before,

I figured I will give this at least a year before I make any real pronouncements on its effectiveness for me, I have been ill with this disease a long time and I am prepared to give mHBOT the time it needs to hopefully help me become well/better again. Plus, I kind of enjoy the quite time alone inside the chamber.

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