Any experience with hyperbaric oxygen treatment?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33242276

by Jeff2Serve • 4 years ago

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Looking into hyperbaric oxygen treatment for spouse with frequent headaches and recovering from radiation treatment. Seems to have fair amount of official acceptance, but a fair amount of "cure everything" claims to. Also seems to be something HNers would be intrigued with. Would appreciate anyone's "take" for this long-time HN reader. Thank you.

rolph• 4 years ago

not to be taken lightly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_toxicity

taxicabjesus• 4 years ago

As @rolph links below, oxygen is toxic at higher partial pressures.

I have an acquaintance who went to the hospital within 24 hours of her first hyperbaric treatment. She was coughing up blood, iirc: "I warned you about this, don't do that again."

The antidote for oxygen toxicity is somewhat therapeutic, beyond neutralizing the toxic effects of O2.

https://www.taxiwars.org/2021/06/folly-medical-hyperventilat...

richliss• 4 years ago

Before you go for something like HBOT, try these for frequent headaches:

1. Cutting out coffee for a few weeks completely - it's not necessarily the caffeine but can be hormones or other in the coffee. 2. Try and get a prescription for amitriptyline - I had severe migraines for months and was prescribed it as it can "turn them off". It did, and as a side effect made me way less grumpy and anxious. In the meantime, I stopped drinking coffee, I then came off amitriptyline and then about 6 months later started drinking coffee again and the migraines came back.

I've also done HBOT as I had Bell's Palsy and it worked amazingly well in helping me recover from that. For anything else, do your research on NIH, not here.

Good luck.

Any experience with hyperbaric oxygen treatment?

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