Hyperbaric Chambers for us?

[Guest guest]

Sort of - it's been tried for people with MS, but the results on some research

papers are either too technical for me to understand or they state it didn't

help. However, MS sufferers have damage due to plaque on their spinal

cord/brain as I understand it.

We have damage due to tethering which in turn, according to my nsg and others,

causes a lack of O2 flow in our cord/nervous system. Again, he always said

after each and every untethering, " Your cord started pulsating and turned a

beautiful color as soon as we freed it. "

This to me means that most of my damage may be caused by lack of oxygen. I see

my pain doctor next week and I'm hoping to remember to ask him about it.

Kathy

Re: Hyperbaric Chambers for us?

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

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

Me

Nebraska, USA

mymocha@...

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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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When my dad first had his strokes he looked into the whole Hyperbaric O2

Chamber treatment in hopes of reversing some of the damage that the strokes

caused.

The treatments are/were extremely expensive......wow we were SHOCKED how

expensive. At that time there was only 1 or 2 facilities that offered HBC

treatment for stroke patients and I think the one he was looking at was in

southern

FL. (go figure FL, home of rich geriatric folks)

Of course insurance didn't pay for the treatment and after dads strokes

there was no way my parents could afford it because he was the primary bread

winner.

We heard great things about HBC treatments helping some stroke patients but

we believe dad was too far gone. Too much damage had been done and he had way

too many other health problems that caused his strokes. (bad heart and

Berger's Disease, plus chain smoking for 50 yrs.....not a good candidate)

I often wonder if the insurance company had paid for a few treatments if it

might have reversed or eased the damage enough that he could have had a chance

to get healthier......thus saving them tons of money in the long run.

I don't know why insurance companies don't think to try to save money right

off the bat rather than waiting.

In the end dad had his half his hand amputated (from the Berger's disease

that threw blood clots)

He had quadruple bypass surgery,diabetes, several more heart attacks and

several more strokes.......a leg amputation.....a couple helicopter rides to the

heart hospital where he finally died. (in home health care the whole 9 yards)

They called off his last surgery (his amputated stump was infected and they

were going to remove his hip socket and half his butt) The surgeon wanted a

chest xray and after he saw it he called the surgery off.

Dad died a few months later we think he had lung cancer

Who knows if they had done the HBC treatment he could have gotten some of

his health back so he could have fought for his life instead of suffering so

much for so many years.

I'd think a measly $3000 treatment (at that time) may have saved them over

$200,000++ it cost them in the end??? Insurance companies..........who can

understand their reasonings anyway?

>>>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?