5thwheel
Stainless
- Joined
- Feb 27, 2003
- Location
- Eugene, Oregon, USA
I had Radiation treatment for prostate cancer about three years ago. Things went fine for a year then I started peeing blood when ever I did any thing very strenuous. Even a sneeze can get it going. The continuing pain is constant, and worse at times of stress. The first line of repair is to spend two hours a day, five days a week for eight weeks in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber. I will be under 1.5 times atmospheric pressure breathing pure oxygen during each two hour session. I started the treatment a couple of months ago but only made it through 45 minutes when I realized I had no escape hatch. I am sealed in from the outside. There is a good reason for it as the pressure needs to be built up slowly and also released slowly. I freaked out and asked to be let out. They did not argue with me and went through the decompression as fast as they safely can. The alternative, other than living with it, is major surgery with a tube sticking out my bely and a bag on my leg until all heals (if ever). At 80 years old I'm not anxious for another major surgery.
Any one been through the chamber treatment that can tell me how to stay in with out freaking out?
Any one been through the chamber treatment that can tell me how to stay in with out freaking out?