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Well...I did it! I spent 6 hours in a hyperbaric chamber and received the airfoce table + 2 extension protocol (standard treatment for the bends). It was boring and a little hot, but otherwise went just fine.

The treatment: First the chamber was pressurized to 60 feet. Then I breathed pure oxygen through an oxygen mask for 6 hours except for 5 minute breaks every 20 minutes. During those 5 minute breaks I just breathed the air inside the chamber. There were two attendants outside of the chamber: one stayed outside the chamber the entire time and one came around to check on me every 20-30 minutes.

Post treatment: I felt pretty tired the rest of the day. It seems like I felt that prodrome symptoms wanted to appear, but couldn't. For instance, a few times I felt a slight sting in my legs, but no symptoms appeared. Also, when I lose a lot of sleep, I usually get an outbreak. My flight home from the center was an overnight flight and I didn't really sleep at all. But so far no outbreak.

I will make sure to keep everyone posted on my progress. I have gone as long as three months without an outbreak, so it will most likely be a while until I know for sure if this worked. I think now it is someone else's turn to get treated and report back. Maybe someone who gets fairly serious outbreaks regularly. That way we could know immediately how effective this treatment is. If you cannot find a treatment center near you that will administer 'the bends' protocol, then pm me and I will tell you where I went. Talk to you all again soon. We're almost there.


Cain

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Where did you go that they were willing and able to treat you so aggresiively. I've been doing HBOT myself, but the only place that I caould find is not the AIrforce Two Protocol as described above. How much did it cosst you? Can you get a cold-agglutin blood test to see if you are free of the virus completely. I so hope it works, this could be the hope that all of us need.

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newtothis,

PM me like I stated in my post if you need contact information. Also, what is a cold-agglutin test? I searched around the internet and didn't find a whole lot of information on it. One thing about having a blood test though - it may not be indicative of the hsv experience after hyperbaric treatment. What I mean is, some viruses stay in you for life, whether they are active or not. For instance, chicken pox (a strain of the herpes virus!) stays in your body for life, but you usually only experience symptoms once in your life. What if hyperbaric oxygen therapy ceases outbreaks even though the virus remains inside you? I may still get a test but I don't want to depress myself if there's no reason to. We'll see. Let me know about the cold-agglutin test. Thanks

Cain

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Cool!!!!!!

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The reason you felt so tired cain was because the oxygen went through your body killing all bad and infected blood cells...

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Update..

No outbreaks. The reason I'm posting is because I have put my body through an enormous amount of stress the last week (severe lack of sleep for almost a week + alcohol consumption). These things together have almost always caused an outbreak. But this time I have not had one. I don't want to jump the gun and get my (and everyone else's) hopes up, but I have noticed a difference already. I keep expecting to feel prodrome symptoms and I just haven't. I'll let you all know as anything else develops..

Cain

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Congrats Cain. I have been telling everyone this works for a long time but no one wants to believe.

A couple of suggestions.

I don't know if you are involved sexually with someone or not but be careful not to re-infect yourself if you are seeing someone with the virus. This "cure" will not prevent you from becoming re-infected by someone else. I strongly recommend using condoms from now on to help prevent further infection.

To truly test whether or not you have been cured, get some ARGININE tablets from a vitamin store. If you still have the virus shen you take 1000 mg or so for a few days it will trigger a episode. You can try a test but the test cannot measure antibodies, which I think most do. You will always have antibodies in your system because you have been infected before. The only true test is to monitor yourself from now on, try not to get re-infected and see if you ever have a breakout again.

The true test would be to see if you transmit to someone else but you would be putting them at risk of being infected. It would have to be someone who knows the whole story and would be willing to take the risk. A difficult task for anyone.

I am glad someone else has tried this and had the same results. Best of luck.

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endeavor,

I definitely wouldn't say I have had the same results as you yet. It will be a good 3-4 months before I know if the HBOT worked. Did you see my post to you? I'm curious if you did anything else at all to help kill/disable the virus. If there's any way you could fill us in on your entire story we would all be VERY grateful. The more information we collect the better! Thanks for your post and I look forward to hearing from you soon!

Cain

ps Good idea on the arginine test. I might do that in a month or so..

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Not so good news. I'm not having an outbreak but I'm definitely experiencing mild prodrome symptoms in my legs. We'll see if an outbreak follows..

Cain