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STOP
PRESS: FOX TV's Sherri Palmeri reported on hyperbaric oxygen therapy and
its effectiveness in the treatment of Lyme disease. The patient interviewed told of her remarkable
recovery from her four year infection of Lyme disease. We encourage you to click here to
view her journey from near death to quality of life.
The patient interviewed by FOX continues the remarkable story of misdiagnosis and failed pharmaceutical approaches to her illness and then m her four year infection of Lyme disease. We encourage you to click here for further information.
Prevailing medical opinion is that Lyme sufferers cannot be cured!
"Explaining that there is no medication, such as an antibiotic, to cure the condition is one of the most difficult aspects of caring for such patients. Nevertheless, failure to do so in clear and empathetic language leaves the patient susceptible to those who would offer unproven and potentially dangerous therapies . . . Chronic Lyme disease, which is equated with chronic B. burgdorferi infection, is a misnomer, and the use of prolonged, dangerous, and expensive antibiotic treatments for it is not warranted.2 "
While we respect the medical opinions of these health scientists . . . WE DO NOT AGREE THAT THEIR OPINION IS CORRECT!
STOP PRESS -- News Alert from the California Lyme Disease Association. May 1 2008.
Settlement Announced in Landmark Investigation of Lyme Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Guidelines.
Connecticut Attorney General Blumentahal -- "My office uncovered undisclosed financial interests held by several of the most powerful Infectious Disease Society of America ("IDSA") panelests. The IDSA's guideline panel improperly ignored, or minimized, consideration of alternative medical opinion and evidence regarding chronic Lyme disease, potentially raising serious questions about whether the recommendations reflected all relevant science."
Click HERE to view the entire IDSA agreement on the Attorney General's Website
We present some testimonials. These patient's battle with Lyme became a life-threatening saga. Lyme spirochetes TO MEMBare the "great pretenders" in medicine. During the patients' struggle to survive, all suffered from a diversity of misdiagnosis from medical specialists and suffered the consequence of following well-meaning but incorrect medical opinion and advice. However, these patients were referred to our Centers by "Lyme-Literate" physicians who view HBOT as another tool in their medical tool box. In effect, these referring physicians arrive at an accurate diagnosis and include HBOT in their pharmaceutical strategy to cure their patients. Our Centers become the physicians' dispensary of high density oxygen. More technical details and clinical questions will be answered as you scroll down the page past the testimonials.
Our Centers have a high success rate in treating "Limeys." We carefully review the patient's medical records and talk with the patient's Lyme Literate Medical Doctor (LLMD) . . . . we call in local specialist physicians to consult if the patient isn't responding like we would want . . . we work with the patient on detoxying while undergoing the HBOT treatments . . . provide massage relief from Herxheimer reactions . . . frequent hands-on consultations and follow-up. We do understand how complicated the disease can be and that we need to take a multi-faceted approach in treating the disease and its co-infections. In other words, our patients are not going to just pay for a "block" of slots of HBOT at one of our Centers and either HBOT works or it doesn't . . . we will be here for consultants/adjustments to aid in healing throughout the process and, if-needed, afterwards . . . it is a relationship. Many patients travel to our Center from different parts of the U.S. . . . San Diego is a fine place to stay. ASK OUR PROGRAM DIRECTOR ABOUT OUR HOSPITALITY SERVICE AND DISCOUNTS.
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If you are a member of the California Lyme Disease Association you will qualify for discounts of up to 33% for each :90 minute treatment session -- saving more than $50.00 per session! Email us for further information. CLICK HERE
*This offer is conditional on your physician writing you a prescription. We will be delighted to send your physician information justifying the use of HBOT as an adjunctive treatment for Lyme Disease .
Claudia Knorr was the first "Limey" treated at one of our Centers in 2002.
Excerpts from the
Survival Diary of Janine Thill . . . .
“In 2003 .. I started
developing extreme fatigue, neuralgia, muscle spasm, acute joint pain in
multiple locations. Depression followed, along with chemical sensitivity,
extreme cognitive and memory problems.
Finally in the beginning of 2005 I was tested for Lyme
Disease. I was POSITIVE. Three of the four members of my family also tested
POSITIVE.
We all started treatment as recommended by the doctors
which included many drugs: Doxycycline, Flagil, Amoxicillin, Zithromax, Mepron,
Ketec, etc, . . . The list goes on an on . . . We did months of IV treatment.
Our livers swelled, we had extreme headaches, sweats and fevers, lost vision,
had tremors, lost muscle control.
My husband was so sick my fifteen year old son
would drive him to work (we are self employed) and then do the work for him
while he laid in his work truck. My
daughter and I were both so sick we had to drop out of a nursing Program at the
local College, after attending four and a half years. This, after a year and a
half of conventional antibiotics.
Finally, in 2005, a friend told me about Hyperbaric
Oxygen Therapy (“HBOT”.) I was skeptical but started my research. Around that
time a childhood friend tried HBOT and got his life back. It was an amazing
transformation. I decided to try myself. It took a little while but I raised the
funds and credit to have my daughter and I to travel to San Diego for HBOT.
At San Diego Hyperbarics, the staff was excellent and
the treatments were comfortable. In the beginning it seemed like NOTHING was
happening except I felt toxic, as usual. I was very fatigued and emotional the
first half of my treatments. By the 15th treatment my husband noticed that I had
more energy and was more positive (I did not realize it at the time, but he
did!)
Then by the 21st HBOT treatment I noticed that I started to
remember phone numbers. I had my ups and downs with Herxing, and I still had
some neurological symptoms with spasms of weeping in frustration at my slow
progress. Little by little the pain disappeared in my joints and then finally
the muscle spasms were gone.
By the 26th treatment that when I came out of HBOT, I
felt good and had more energy than when I went in. At the end of the week, my
sister visited – after a day of working – for dinner and a movie at night. It
was the first time in years I could function and night and we had a great time.
And haven’t stopped since.
I am so thankful. Although everyone’s response can be
different to HBOT, some patients may need more treatments then others, why
wouldn’t you want to stop suffering and be the BEST you can be. Do it now! I
only wish I done Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy sooner!” I will gladly answer
any questions that you might have about my recovery and HBOT --
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click here
to email me!"
Janine Thill
After Janine recovered her health, she returned to her medical training. Click
HERE to read more about Janine's return to work.
I
started treatment at Hyperbarics San Diego January 3, 2005. After three weeks of
daily treatments the world was born anew for me... I was totally cured! I felt
wonderful! Strength, balance and endurance has started to return. Within less
than ten days after starting the treatments new hope danced in my heart as I
realized this was a gift from God. I was beginning to feel normal again.
My
health continued to improve over the 21 days of consecutive treatments.
Now, three years later, I feel better than ever. My strength continues to grow
and life is wonderful. I am back to enjoying participating in my teen age
children growing up and all the many other little pleasures that being healthy
brings into life. Take it from me, Lyme Disease can be beat with Hyperbaric Oxygen. How I wish I
had known about this sooner! I believe this is the best treatment for chronic or
advanced Lyme Disease. I often thought the side effects of all the antibiotics
were far worse than the disease. HBOT, however, was refreshing and invigorating.
From the top down, the staff at Hyperbarics San Diego were friendly,
professional and dedicated to making me a well person.
If you have any doubts I will gladly answer
whatever questions I can. You can contact me at crystalannmoran@yahoo.com.
Crystal Moran
Crystal became ill in 1999 and did not recover fully until 2005. Her story, her "song" is both informative and encouraging for those who have almost given up hope. We encourage you to click
here to read of her journey from near death to quality of life.July 2, 2007 we contacted Crystal to check on her health. Crystal's response:
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I'm still feeling hunky dory and love being healthy and
energetic. Life is good and every day is a gift!
My landscape design business, "For Landsakes," is starting a
website and I'd like to include my HBOT testimonial on the
page about me and of course link it to HCA. I'll send you
the site when it's up and running....should be in a week or
two. You know I have a heart to help other Lymies and
oxygen is the best.
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WOW . . . From a young mother in a wheel chair, Crystal has not only returned to her family but also the Planet -- She is now the proprietor of her own thriving business -- click
HERE to see what Crystal is doing NOW!One of the fastest growing infections diseases in the United States is Lyme disease. Click
HERE"Learn about Lyme Disease" CDC - Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases" for a a link to the latest information. Lyme literate physicians prescribe HBOT as an adjunctive (support) therapy, part of an interdisciplinery approach which may include antibiotics, nutritional support and complimentary alternative medical detoxifying procedures. Click HERE "Lyme Treatment. com" for an informative and concise description of HBOT treatments for Lyme. Our Centers have has an extremely high success rate treating patients suffering from long standing-disseminated Lyme disease, now commonly known as "post-Lyme-syndrome" or PLS.
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45 - 70% of Bb patients have mycoplasma fermentens incognitus, 10 - 35% of Bb patients have Erlichia, 25-45% of Bb patients have bartonella, 8-20% of Bb patients have babesia." Professor Garth Nicholson, 2007.SHOULD THESE INFECTIONS BE ERADICATED WITH PHARMACEUTICALS BEFORE HBOT TREATMENTS COMMENCE?
All of these "bugs" (bacteria and parasites) can be transmitted by ticks and other vectors. There is much debate and some confusion because of the incorrect assumption that HBOT will actually enhance some of these Bb coinfections. For example, because babesia canis (Bc) chooses red-blood cells as a primary transport vehicle to infect the entire body, it is assumed that it does so because "it just loves oxygen." Not so, the Bc trophozoite cannot tolerate high oxygen tensions and HBOT will cause it to perish and will repair the microcirculation that Bc infections destroy. So too with the other coinfections. HBOT, when administered at the appropriate treatment pressure, exerts a potent bactericidal and fungicidal effect and continues on to repair damaged cells, restoring normal organ function including neuronal circuitry. There is no doubt that HBOT act synergistically with many of the antibiotics ("ABX") used to combat these coinfections and reduce the time these ABX needed for them to do their job.
Our observations are as follows.
Some PLS patients are treated with HBOT along with oral or peripherally inserted central catheters (PICC lines) of antibiotics.
Other PLS patients had previously been treated with various antibiotics, antifungal and quinine Rx . . . with poor results. They then had HBOT sessions with positive results.
Yet other PLS patients had steadfastly refused to take antibiotics before HBOT, and had positive results.
All of the PLS patients underwent a period of herxheimer detoxifying reactions, indicating that the "bugs" were being killed off with the high oxygen tensions of HBOT. Some testimonial experience of such patients is listed on this page.
This simple question "Should these infections be eradicated with pharmaceuticals before HBOT treatments commence?" does not have a simple answer. Our Centers rely heavily on Lyme-literate medical specialists ("LLMD") to supervise the patient during HBOT treatments and to consider the HBOT an adjunctive medication to their good medical judgment.
Because referring physicians who send their Lyme patients to our Centers prescribe appropriate dosage of 100% oxygen, all of our Centers follow their prescription carefully. Our Center's dispense HBOT at the appropriate pressures and for the length of time required to saturate the body, namely, one hour and fifteen minutes at the treatment depth. With the time required for comfortable and safe pressurization and then return to room pressure, patients usually spend ninety minutes in the chamber at treatment pressures of at least 2.4 ATA (20 psig) to 2.7 ATA (26 psig), the pressure (dose of HBOT) dependent on the referring physician. Click here for the Fife and Neubauer "Hyperbaric Oxygnation for Lyme Vasculitis" PDF download.
Most of the Lyme Disease patients treated at our Centers have regained their health and eradicated B.b symptoms with 40 consecutive daily HBOT sessions of :90 minutes. In some instances, dramatically ill patients recovered in as little as 26 HBOT sessions.
HOW MANY HBOT SESSIONS ARE \NEEDED TO GET POSITIVE RESULTS?
Our observations are as follows:
Lyme Disease patients (aka "PLS") are all idiosyncratic (unique to each patient) and present with symptoms ranging from paraplegia to paralysis of vocal chords.
PLS patients often are rid of B.b but still face long rehabilitation from their illness.
Almost all PLS patients have been misdiagnosed with multiple sclerosis and ALS (Lou Gherig's disease because of the symptoms.
The simple answer to the question "How many HBOT sessions are needed to get positive results" cannot be defined at this time. PLS is idiosyncratic and HBOT session requirements will be influenced by multiple factors.
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number of our Lyme patients had already purchased and used these devices for many months before they finally gave up and came to our Centers for treatment at the appropriate pressure of 100% oxygen.There is much discussion on the merits of what are becoming to be called "hard chambers" and "soft chambers." A number of medical doctors and other health practitioners such as chiropractors use the "soft" inflatable chambers and claim excellent results. However, other specialist physicians dispute the efficacy of inflatable chambers, so called "mild-hyperbarics" (mHBOT) because they do not use oxygen but merely increase room air pressure to about 3 to 4 psig over ambient. On the other hand, conventional "hard" chambers provide 100% oxygen at pressure prescribed by physicians and known to banish the many symptoms of of the Bb Lyme spirochete.
Our Centers do not use nor sponsor the use of mHBOT inflatable chambers for a number of reasons. Laws of Physics do not support the claims of mHBOT advocates. Click
here for more information on the laws of physics that apply to HBOT. Also, our clinic has treated a number of patients that already undergone dozens of treatments in inflatable mHBOT chambers with no observable quantitative or qualitative positive changes in their Lyme Disease. After being treated in our conventional "hard" HBOT chambers at the correct pressures and for the appropriate treatment times, these patients showed rapid return to normal health.The graph clearly shows that 100% oxygen by mask at sea level delivers almost four times more oxygen to the patient than an inflatable chamber can deliver. However, to achieve the results of Fife and Neubauer in the treatment of Lyme disease, almost three times more than 100% sea-level oxygen is required and this can only be accomplished in our conventional "hard" hyperbaric chambers.
Patient Heid Y’, mother of three teenagers had been chronically fatigued for
more than a decade. After diagnostic confusion she tested positively for Lyme
Borrelia Burgdorferi and after years of failed antibiotic regimens, was
prescribed HBOT by her physician and prodded by her family and friends to
try.
Heidi traveled from Northern California to San Diego. She arrived at the clinic,
wracked with doubt as to whether HBOT would remove her symptoms and return her
quality of life. Heidi was one of the few patients that we treat that have a
Jarish-Herxheimer response. By her fifth treatment she really felt awful but
was encouraged by her friends and care-givers to continue past the "tough
patch.".
Heidi dramatically improved by treatment ten and only required 26 consecutive
daily 90:00 minute treatments of HBOT to reach what she felt was the return of
the quality of her life. She left this note for the Clinic's staff . . .
-- My lungs are more clear and I feel as though I can breathe deeper and have less nasal congestion.
-- My anxiety level has decreased much and I feel a true sense of hope for the first time in a long time.
-- I have not felt dizzy, nor have I been dropping things.
-- I am sure I have chelated a tremendous amount of heavy metals.
-- My energy level is increasing sail and I not I am not “crashing” in the afternoons.
-- Most importantly, even beyond the chronic fatigue issue, my depression is lifting.
I have had a couple of really happy days for no good reason! What I mean by that is I just had happiness and a sense of contentment and well being on what was a relatively ordinary day or days. This is monumental. This is exciting and scary. I could be down right sassy!
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