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    Please help: Will tilt table testing cause bad PEM/crash?

    It will depend how you react to the test, I would not have been able to drive after I was very confused/spaced out, during the test I felt nauseous and faint from pre syncope symptoms. This is because I have Postural/Orthostatic Hypotension and the test was causing my blood pressure to drop (a...
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    HBOT for ME/CFS/CFIDS

    Hi @voner The main one to improve is fatigue (physical & mental), pain wise I can't say the HBOT has definitely affected this as being doing other things related to the improvement there, it does have a holistic improvement on pain in so much as more mobile and being laid for long periods...
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    HBOT for ME/CFS/CFIDS

    Bit of background on my ME/CFS as may help for comparison of people it helps vs those it doesn't. I was diagnosed circa 2011/12 in my late 20s with CFS, in the previous year I had been over doing things at work, had 3-4 trips to India which I had vaccinations for initially, finding it difficult...
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    HBOT for ME/CFS/CFIDS

    I will have been going for 3 years in September. The first few months were sporadic as I struggled to get there and had to stop for a few weeks due to a cold, I noticed an increase in symptoms when I couldn't go. I then built up from once to twice a week as my symptoms improved (at 24' chamber...