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In Reply to: RE: Again, it may not be too late to have some benefit posted by Charles Hansen on April 06, 2008 at 20:11:11
My AION was 5 years ago. That study looks like it is from 2003. Hmmm... grrr...
That really is infuriating and exasperating. My AION doctor was a "specialist" in AION and MS. When my wife and I found a study from the Czech Republic with promising results, he said he had not heard of HBOT for AION. He asked how we found it. We told him about a little thing called Google. He didn't like search engines because they returned too much "chaffe with the wheat". We gave him a litle tutorial in boolean searches. We tried to get me into the hyperbaric chamber at our own expense but were assured that it was too late.
The Japanese study you linked to is very interesting. It is a shame more doctors in the relevant fields don't know about or care enough to track down research in other countries.
For me, well... I'm 5+ years after the AION now and my eyes have had other complications anyway. Corneas, lenses, retinas, optic nerve and more, they've all failed spectacularly. I've had 21 surgeries (11 on my eyes). I was told as a teen that I'd be blind by twenty, but had usable vision into my forties. As long as my hearing works, I'll be a happy camper. :-)
Keep up the good work with your hyperbaric chamber. You are in good company. The Chow brothers in California are hot on the trail of synthetic retina implants. The brothers, a Doctor and an Electrical Engineer have developed, in their home lab, with their own funds, retinal implants so effective it gives finger counting ability at ten(I think it was ten) feet.
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