How it went
Did it last?
- 4 of 19 said the benefit wore off (including the 1 who relapsed).
- 6 of 19 needed to keep doing it to stay well.
Read from what people wrote. A story that ends without a follow-up counts as lasting, so treat these as minimums.
| Outcome described | Accounts | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Full recovery | 5 | 26% |
| Near-full | 0 | 0% |
| Substantial | 8 | 42% |
| Partial | 5 | 26% |
| Relapsed | 1 | 5% |
| No benefit | 0 | 0% |
By how ill people were
| Severity at worst | How it went | n | Recovered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moderate | 2 | 50% | |
| Severe | 9 | 11% | |
| Very severe | 3 | 67% |
5 accounts don’t say how ill the person was.
How often it comes up
Posts that mention Hyperbaric oxygen (HBOT), per 1,000 posts each year. Hover a point for the count.
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| Year | Posts mentioning it | All posts | Per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 1 | 184 | 5.4 |
| 2010 | 0 | 682 | 0.0 |
| 2011 | 2 | 704 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 1 | 1,491 | 0.7 |
| 2013 | 1 | 1,995 | 0.5 |
| 2014 | 2 | 2,707 | 0.7 |
| 2015 | 4 | 2,566 | 1.6 |
| 2016 | 5 | 2,023 | 2.5 |
| 2017 | 99 | 3,381 | 29.3 |
| 2018 | 40 | 2,523 | 15.9 |
| 2019 | 9 | 1,637 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 26 | 3,318 | 7.8 |
| 2021 | 5 | 2,469 | 2.0 |
| 2022 | 5 | 1,871 | 2.7 |
| 2023 | 1 | 2,362 | 0.4 |
| 2024 | 12 | 2,176 | 5.5 |
| 2025 | 15 | 1,349 | 11.1 |
| 2026 (so far) | 3 | 899 | 3.3 |
Posts in the forum threads and blog comments we archived, 34,337 in all, counted per year. A mention means the post names the treatment, not that the writer took it. These pages all contain a recovery story, so they show what those communities discussed, not everyone with ME/CFS or long COVID. All trends
All 19 accounts
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Start here. You shouldn't have to do this alone.
Zeest Khan's post mentions she underwent a hyperbaric chamber treatment, a sleep study, and an unnamed surgical intervention around 2021, but gives no details on protocols, doses, or durations for any of them beyond photo captions. She pushed through…
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Caitlan's 1-2 punch works with her severe ME/CFS
Caitlan was a healthy personal trainer who became bedbound after a vaccination followed by a stomach bug, developing severe neurological and cardiovascular ME/CFS symptoms. She tried IV therapy, hyperbaric oxygen and stem cells without lasting success. She…
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I Consistently Feel Immensely Better Doing Daily mHBOT Sessions
A long-term multi-condition patient, now seventy-three, who bought his own mild hyperbaric chamber for about eight thousand dollars and has run near-daily one-to-two-hour sessions for about a year. He feels immensely better during and for hours after each…
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Hyperbaric Oxygen article comments (neighbour)
This commenter's neighbor used a personal hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) machine, bought for about $5,000, doing 45-minute sessions daily; the specific pressure and total number of sessions are not given on the page. She had been sick since early 2020 but…
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Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Turns Mathew's Long COVID / ME/CFS / POTS Around
Mathew developed long COVID with ME/CFS and POTS after a COVID infection in February 2020 and cycled through severe crashes for four years, at times 20 hours a day in bed, despite midodrine, low-dose naltrexone, Abilify and Paxlovid. In late 2023 he…
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Drugs Get Mathew Most of the Way and Hyperbaric Oxygen Does the Rest
Dr Mathew Robinson, a university professor, developed long COVID with ME/CFS and POTS after infection in February 2020 and spent 20-22 hours a day in bed. Midodrine, low-dose Abilify and low-dose naltrexone under Bateman Horne Center care brought him to…
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My 4th Year; EBV, ME/CFS, Long Covid; Pacing, HBOT, Vedicinals
Vedicinals-9, taken short-term as a nutraceutical supplement alongside an organic diet. She had been ill for four years at the time of writing, with EBV-triggered ME/CFS overlapping long COVID, managing dysautonomia with pyridostigmine and midodrine plus…
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Sarah's Story
Sarah tried an extensive list of treatments without full success: many hyperbaric oxygen sessions (costing "thousands" and giving only temporary relief before triggering relapses), acupuncture, kinesiology, diet changes, breathing exercises with osteopaths,…
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Long-Term Daily mHBOT and Full Recoveries w/ Ongoing Maintenance
used_to_race combined daily hydroxychloroquine with mHBOT sessions 3-4 times a week for 45-90 minutes, plus fludrocortisone for POTS, and reported bad days becoming much less frequent, with capacity for 76-mile cycling weekends and full-time work plus…
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List of ME/CFS Recovery and Improvement Stories
Did daily sessions of mild hyperbaric oxygen therapy (mHBOT) in a home soft chamber, accumulating more than 200 hours of treatment. Their moderate, virus-triggered illness had lasted about 18 months before going into remission, a two-level gain, while doing…
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Hematologic Ozone put me in remission
Had already completed hyperbaric oxygen therapy, 30 sessions over two and a half weeks, before this post, and says it was very helpful for ME/CFS and fibromyalgia. Illness duration and severity are not detailed. At the time of posting was considering IV…
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Long-Term daily mHBOT and full recoveries w/ ongoing maintenance
junkcrap50 did around 80 hard-shell HBOT dives and says full remission did not appear until roughly dive #75, at which point he felt "better than when healthy" with big gains in confidence, thinking speed and energy. He reports that continuing dives past…
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Long-Term daily mHBOT and full recoveries (Learner1)
Dealing with ongoing chronic infections, this poster used a soft-sided 1.3-atmosphere hyperbaric chamber with an oxygen mask at a local clinic for about forty dollars a session. It helped combat the infections, but stopping sessions made symptoms and…
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My recovery after my one and only crash.
Combined a strict elimination diet (no gluten, dairy, processed food or fructose) with Lyrica at 225mg per day, low-dose naltrexone, ketotifen, antihistamines, B12 with methylfolate, rifaximin plus neomycin for SIBO, hyperbaric oxygen, and later tDCS.…
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Feeling amazing after getting out of Mold/Mycotoxin home
After moving out of a mold/mycotoxin-contaminated home and combining methylation supplements, antifungals/antibiotics/antiparasitics, a bentonite clay binder and multiple hyperbaric oxygen sessions, she reports "amazing improvements" over the preceding month…
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List of Patients improving with HELP-Apheresis
Katty2k is compiled in this patient-outcomes thread as feeling "amazing" after just one round combining HELP-apheresis, HBOT and IV vitamins - a multi-treatment combination that makes apheresis's specific contribution hard to isolate.
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Long COVID Recovery - 3 Personal Stories of Healing (Heydieh)
Heydieh's protocol combined three EBOO/F (extracorporeal blood oxygenation, ozonation and filtration) sessions with about five high-dose "10 Pass" ozone sessions, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, and IV infusions of high-potency vitamin C, NAD, methylene blue and…
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Long COVID Recovery - 3 Personal Stories of Healing (Cameron)
Cameron received a series of EBOO/F (extracorporeal blood oxygenation, ozonation and filtration) sessions along with hyperbaric oxygen therapy, and was on his third treatment when interviewed. He had been sick with extreme fatigue, brain fog and facial…
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Long COVID Recovery - 3 Personal Stories of Healing (Lauri)
Lauri underwent a nine-day course of EBOO/F (extracorporeal blood oxygenation, ozonation and filtration) combined with a hyperbaric oxygen chamber, high-dose IV vitamin C, and high-potency vitamin IV therapy, then returned for a second nine-day course after…