Postby Sophy » Tue Jul 18, 2017 4:12 pm
I had 8 weeks of daily HBOT at a government funded hospital last year to repair pelvic bone necrosis caused by chemorad in 2011. It was a high pressure chamber for 6 people with a nurse in the chamber with us. It worked very well, scans showed my fracture healed, but they did say I would need to repeat the treatment in 4 or 5 years as the radiation damage would recur.
When I first met with the HBOT specialist we discussed whether the oxygen boost to grow new capilliaries in my bone would also cause cancer cells to grow faster. He said they had been concerned about that too but their observed effect on patients they had treated for other things was that the HBOT seemed to cause a decrease in cancer growth. This was just their thoughts, not proven scientifically, and they were not using HBOT for this purpose.
I asked about whether the small individual lower pressure chambers were of any help and the staff at the unit thought maybe but maybe not, no-one knew. However, they suggested I contact a former patient who had received HBOT at the hospital for radiation damage and now had set up a low pressure HBOT facility. This former patient told me she had been using low pressure HBOT for over six years and her radiation damage had not recurred, she also felt that the low pressure HBOT had been of help to her general health too.
Like rp1952 I have been combining many treatments which might help and which don't harm and my oncologist had no concerns about it, so I bought one of the low pressure inflatable chambers and use it at home most days. I don't know if it will prevent tumour growth but it is quite relaxing, if a little strange, lying inside what looks like an inflated body bag.
dx T3N1M0 Feb 2011 when children age 11, 7 and 2
Xeloda/rad March 11, LAR June 11 temp ileo
Xelox 6 rounds, NED
Lung mets Oct 13
Laser surgery Germany Jan 14. 3 mets left lung.
Laser surgery UK Jun and Aug 14 one met each lung, NED
Aug 14 Started Xeloda and Celebrex (ADAPT)
June 20 CT shows nodule, bronchoscopy confirms is scar tissue, still NED
Dec 20 stopping Xeloda continue celebrex, cimetedine
Aug 21,March 23 scans show still NED
March 2023 CURED - discharged from Oncology, no more scans or follow up