Interesting history there Doc. I tried an HBO chamber (my DC had one) shortly after my chemical (drugs, amiodarone, beta blockers, and infectious absess combo) related lung injury thinking I could expedite or reverse some of the damage. Nope. Upon gradually increasing my duration in tank (3rd time) to 45 min., I began to experience extreme “air trapping” SOB. It made me realize my damage was probably at the parenchymal cell alveolar level and irreversible. BTW, my DNM Sue Burback, just bought one (well before Mercola’s review of processes) to assist with expediting and making more efficacious her natural homeostatic treatments Re: the reference Mercola cites up front in his article.
COPD, blebs, you cannot fool Mother Nature or simple gas physics.. actually HBO could be quite risky to COPD patients (unless they have had a pleurodesis.. then could be at risk for pneumonia-mediastinum. Also dangerous.
Further, as my pulmo explained after I unsuccessfully tried sildenifil for ED, which is also used for PAH, giving me another case of bad SOB, there is a delicate balance in pressures at the gas exchange level between blood and air O2. It’s a trial and error process based on your lung condition and altitude (sildenifil, better known as Viagra, is used by mountain climbers to increase O2 absorption).
Interesting history there Doc. I tried an HBO chamber (my DC had one) shortly after my chemical (drugs, amiodarone, beta blockers, and infectious absess combo) related lung injury thinking I could expedite or reverse some of the damage. Nope. Upon gradually increasing my duration in tank (3rd time) to 45 min., I began to experience extreme “air trapping” SOB. It made me realize my damage was probably at the parenchymal cell alveolar level and irreversible. BTW, my DNM Sue Burback, just bought one (well before Mercola’s review of processes) to assist with expediting and making more efficacious her natural homeostatic treatments Re: the reference Mercola cites up front in his article.
COPD, blebs, you cannot fool Mother Nature or simple gas physics.. actually HBO could be quite risky to COPD patients (unless they have had a pleurodesis.. then could be at risk for pneumonia-mediastinum. Also dangerous.
Further, as my pulmo explained after I unsuccessfully tried sildenifil for ED, which is also used for PAH, giving me another case of bad SOB, there is a delicate balance in pressures at the gas exchange level between blood and air O2. It’s a trial and error process based on your lung condition and altitude (sildenifil, better known as Viagra, is used by mountain climbers to increase O2 absorption).