HyperBaric Oxygen Therapy: Anyone have experience with HBOT?

http://www.healio.com/gastroenterology/inflammatory-bowel-disease/news/online/%7B158beb4c-abd1-4a26-8502-30a9d5d910ff%7D/hyperbaric-oxygen-therapy-benefits-hospitalized-uc-patients

"Hyperbaric oxygen therapy was effective, safe and well tolerated in hospitalized patients with ulcerative colitis experiencing moderate-to-severe disease flares, according to data from a randomized, double blind, sham-controlled trial presented at the 12th Congress of the European Crohn’s and Colitis Organization."

"By day 5, half of the hyperbaric oxygen therapy group achieved clinical remission compared with none of the sham group (P = .04), and the study therefore met its primary endpoint."

"Patients responded to hyperbaric oxygen therapy as early as day 3 (60% vs. 13%; P = .07) and significantly more of them had clinical response at day 10 (80% vs. 25%; P = .05) and clinical remission at day 10 (50% vs. 0%; P = .04) compared with the sham group."

Small study, but sounds promising.

iPoop said...
A few here have tried it.

Interesting. I googled it and found a few private clinics within 1 hour of where I'm located that offer it. It would be out of pocket because it's not approved for IBD. These clinics are run by MD's but they are not GI docs and seem to recommend it for a long list of problems/illnesses, everything from ADHD, autism to brain injuries.

I would be too nervous trying this experimental treatment since I'm not sure these MDs would know about dosing/number of times for UC patients, and who knows if the machine is safe/well calibrated. They don't seem affiliated with any medical center.

It's still way better than getting your colon removed, so i'll flag it if my UC gets way worse in the future.

UB tough has been using it to treat her CD and fistulas. She will likely chime in, but look for some of her recent posts if she doesn't.

Search for the post by Canada Mark on HBOT/triple antibiotic/biologic combo therapy for perianal fistulas in Crohn's. They had a 100% success rate (maybe 90% due to special circumstances) in a limited trial. It was done by Dr. Body in Australia.

Uniform Charlie said...
That was supposed to say Dr. Borody, not Dr. Body. Anyway, here's the link.

/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5137971/

Thanks for the link!

Flying gal this is a very old thread. Are you speaking from your personal use of HBOT? The original post links to a randomised, double blind, placebo controlled study that shows it does work (at least in this very small study). Do you have more info on it? I find it interesting but there doesn't seem to be much research.

Post Edited (Uniform Charlie) : 3/2/2019 12:23:51 PM (GMT-7)

I'm not as smart a lot of you and this is my HBOT for dummies from my experience. Yes I did HBOT hyperbaric treatment. over 25 treatments at 2 atmospheres sometimes 2 treatment per days. I did them back to back and doubles in one day per protocol.

The referenced study above is only about healing resistant Fistuals in Chron’s Disease. Using HBOT. Healing wounds.

HOBOT saturates the body with oxygen and heals wounds, Traumatic brain injuries, headaches, helps stroke victims and all sorts of things. My girlfriend had firsthand experience with HBOT for her son’s brain injury and seeing the other patients in the hospital with almost miracles improvements from Strokes. Therefore, I thought if I could heal the ulcers it would make me better. Opps, not correct thinking. I started HBOT and the blood went away but I keep getting sicker. More pain and sense of urgency getting worse. I then ended up at my GI doctor sicker and he explained that HBOT isn’t treating the disease that’s causing the ulcers and the flare.
I thought I did enough research, because I didn't find much data. So I pieced the data I found and put together a theory that I wanted to hear. My research included data gathered from the doctor in charge of the facility I was going to in Los Angeles. His main center is in Florida and he oversees multiple locations throughout US, I talked to the doctor he was vague and I got the impression it was up to me being consistent in my treatments. He talked about it not a 100%. I asked him for data but I heard what I wanted to hear and he was providing hope and not data. Really after all this time and studies there should be some real data if there was. This isn’t new technology.
After stopping HBOT, I then decided to call the other HOBT clinics around and see if I can get more info about what my GI doctor presented to me. I was using a ford Focus type HBOT facility. I talked to the Lexus high end facilities(3-4 Atm pressure with oxygen) and ford pacer types that chiropractors and etc run (1.3 atm and inflatable and pressurize with air not oxygen). The Lexus types said it doesn’t help UC and they wouldn’t take my money. The ford pacer types danced around issues and would freely take my money.

My email is in my profile if anyone want to reach out to me. Oh I'm a data analysis type. You guys talk about things and use acronyms I don't know. But I'm learning a lot.

Notsosicklygirl, It looked like UB touch did it to heal a fistual.

I wanted it put me in remission and keep me well. Here I am on prednisone at 30 mg and mesamalmine. I'm tyring to get out of this 2 year cycle of flaring.

Uniform Charlie, my thread was about HBOT hyperbarics by it self, alone, to put you in remission. Let me clarify I read a few different post about HBOT and probably should of started a new one.

There are more studies out there about using IV drugs in HBOT and almost miracle or quick healing in many areas like my girlfriend son and the stroke victims she saw. My girlfriend is a nurse. HBOT has proven to be a good medium for getting drugs to be more effective.

I read that link. HBOT Hyperbarics was done in combination with steroids. With only 5 treatments of HBOT, I would’ve liked to seen the data of those people a few weeks later. I would do it in A professional hyperbaric oxygen treatment center and of course you’ll be doing it because steroids aren’t working anymore and they’re trying to get you into remission as quickly as possible. Pretty bad situation probably .

In Just My Humble Opinion of my HBOT alone therapy. My thread was also to say be careful of the HBOT centers and What their claims are, what pressures they are using, how are they pressurizing (with air or oxygen).