Re: Re: Hyperbaric Chambers for us?

[Guest guest]

Sumchyk was found muttering these words:

I may be willing to try anything... I am getting ready for another MRI --

they are checking for 4th tethering in as many years.

We are doing the flip/flop style MRI to see if the cord moves forward when

I am pictured on my stomach and then on my back. If the cord doesn't move,

it is once again tethered.

Then, of course, I need to decide if I should be operated on again. There

is some law of diminishing returns here after a certain number of

untetherings I think. The last operation was in March, so I haven't even

made it a year!

Anyway.. haven't had the MRI yet so I could just be imagining things,

right? And, if the Hyperbaric Chambers helps, it would be great to find

out.

M

> Interesting, Kathy. You would almost think it would help in some

> way. Have you found out anything for sure, yet?

>

> Me

> Nebraska, USA

> mymocha@...

>

[Guest guest]

Where did this hyperbaric chamber thread get started? I dont find the

message below. I have a friend from school that had a stroke, he is

saving up all his $ for a 8 week treatment next June. He has done a lot

of research and really thinks it will help him. He is going to have it

done in Sante Fe New Mexico, seems like he said $15k for 8 weeks

including room & board.

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE !

Rick

Brande said the following on 12/29/2006 11:51 AM:

> Interesting, Kathy. You would almost think it would help in some

> way. Have you found out anything for sure, yet?

>

> Me

> Nebraska, USA

> mymocha@...

>

>

> .

>

> But, this got me thinking as I was just laying there. The one

> constant that my nsg would say after each surgery was that my spinal

> cord immediately starting pulsating and grew a beautiful color after

> he untethered it. Also, I keep hearing over and over, lack of

> oxygen, resulting from the tether causes a lot of our damage.

>

> A hyperbaric forces more than usual amounts of oxygen into the person

> inside the chamber, correct? (No, I don't know a lot about them.)

> But, wouldn't it stand to reason that if we used these chambers, they

> would possibly oxygenate the spinal cord for us also? Maybe helping

> healing or even reversing damage?

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Hey Rick

I started it, I think over a month ago, never received a response, then Brande

somehow picked it up. As I said, I began to think about how my nsg always said

the oxygen to my spinal cord after an untetethering would turn my spinal cord a

beautiful color and how the blood would start to flow almost immediately upon

being freed. For some reason, his comments have always stuck with me, which got

me thinking about something had said years ago about oxygen or lack

thereof to our cords causes a lot of damage (paraphrasing.)

That made me think about hyperbaric chambers. A local GYN in our old town had

bought one years ago and it was always in the local paper and how they would

send burn victims and divers to his chamber for treatments as it was the only

one in the area. I would always, for some reason, read these articles and they

always explained one part or another of the treatment.

So, I put it all together and wondered if forced 02 into our systems would

somehow help - even for short term which in my mind would be better than meds.

Kathy

Re: Re: Hyperbaric Chambers for us?

Where did this hyperbaric chamber thread get started? I dont find the

message below. I have a friend from school that had a stroke, he is

saving up all his $ for a 8 week treatment next June. He has done a lot

of research and really thinks it will help him. He is going to have it

done in Sante Fe New Mexico, seems like he said $15k for 8 weeks

including room & board.

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE !

Rick

Brande said the following on 12/29/2006 11:51 AM:

> Interesting, Kathy. You would almost think it would help in some

> way. Have you found out anything for sure, yet?

>

> Me

> Nebraska, USA

> mymocha@...

>

>

> .

>

> But, this got me thinking as I was just laying there. The one

> constant that my nsg would say after each surgery was that my spinal

> cord immediately starting pulsating and grew a beautiful color after

> he untethered it. Also, I keep hearing over and over, lack of

> oxygen, resulting from the tether causes a lot of our damage.

>

> A hyperbaric forces more than usual amounts of oxygen into the person

> inside the chamber, correct? (No, I don't know a lot about them.)

> But, wouldn't it stand to reason that if we used these chambers, they

> would possibly oxygenate the spinal cord for us also? Maybe helping

> healing or even reversing damage?

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

I would try it if i could afford it...

r

DK Moulton said the following on 12/30/2006 4:11 PM:

> Hey Rick

>

> I started it, I think over a month ago, never received a response, then Brande

somehow picked it up. As I said, I began to think about how my nsg always said

the oxygen to my spinal cord after an untetethering would turn my spinal cord a

beautiful color and how the blood would start to flow almost immediately upon

being freed. For some reason, his comments have always stuck with me, which got

me thinking about something had said years ago about oxygen or lack

thereof to our cords causes a lot of damage (paraphrasing.)

>

> That made me think about hyperbaric chambers. A local GYN in our old town had

bought one years ago and it was always in the local paper and how they would

send burn victims and divers to his chamber for treatments as it was the only

one in the area. I would always, for some reason, read these articles and they

always explained one part or another of the treatment.

>

> So, I put it all together and wondered if forced 02 into our systems would

somehow help - even for short term which in my mind would be better than meds.

>

> Kathy

> Re: Re: Hyperbaric Chambers for us?

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>

> Where did this hyperbaric chamber thread get started? I dont find the

> message below. I have a friend from school that had a stroke, he is

> saving up all his $ for a 8 week treatment next June. He has done a lot

> of research and really thinks it will help him. He is going to have it

> done in Sante Fe New Mexico, seems like he said $15k for 8 weeks

> including room & board.

>

> HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE !

> Rick

>

> Brande said the following on 12/29/2006 11:51 AM:

> > Interesting, Kathy. You would almost think it would help in some

> > way. Have you found out anything for sure, yet?

> >

> > Me

> > Nebraska, USA

> > mymocha@...

> >

> >

> > .

> >

> > But, this got me thinking as I was just laying there. The one

> > constant that my nsg would say after each surgery was that my spinal

> > cord immediately starting pulsating and grew a beautiful color after

> > he untethered it. Also, I keep hearing over and over, lack of

> > oxygen, resulting from the tether causes a lot of our damage.

> >

> > A hyperbaric forces more than usual amounts of oxygen into the person

> > inside the chamber, correct? (No, I don't know a lot about them.)

> > But, wouldn't it stand to reason that if we used these chambers, they

> > would possibly oxygenate the spinal cord for us also? Maybe helping

> > healing or even reversing damage?

> >

> >

> >

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