Posted by yxibow on September 14, 2009, at 22:59:36
In reply to Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Withdrawal, posted by NewQuestions on September 14, 2009, at 9:31:45
> I am 9 months off all medication, after 10 plus years of use, and am experiencing neurological problems, including cognitive problems (memory, lack of concentration, abstract thinking) and weird "head pressures". An alternative doctor recommended Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy. Any thoughts?
Well, you'll get different views here depending on whether one believes in somewhat radical alternative therapy or not.
I don't.
Hyperbaric oxygen (actually oxygen & nitrogen and sometimes xenon I think) is a therapy meant for divers who have come up too quickly from the depths and are suffering from a serious to fatal condition known as "the bends".
Why did you go off your medication in the first place?What was the diagnosis ?
All the above sounds also like a) a rare set of long term withdrawal from medications that will resolve itself or b) more likely causality is not always causation and it sounds like untreated ADHD and/or depression because you've gone off medication.
A condition that seems "cured" doesn't mean that you can remove the medication (not that I'm not about reducing as much as one can) and things will go away. Psychotropics unfortunately aren't antibiotics or aspirin, not to be crass. They help (and yes, have side effects) only when they're there.
And that's why some people (besides reasons of bad side effects or medical conditions that preclude certain treatments such as having liver disease) go off their medications, because they think that it has made them well. It makes one's functionality much better.
Spending thousands to tens of thousands of dollars lying in a tank of oxygen isn't going to help it any more than those "oxygen bars" where people go and "breath in" oxygen and it isn't paid by insurance unlike "the bends" which may be and is the only proven use for such a thing that I know.
We're surrounded by about 21% oxygen and 78% nitrogen plus other things, polluted or not.If you want to get a scientifically based answer for what you're suffering from I would suggest seeing a neurologist.
but that's my 2c-- Jay
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