 Administrator, Director of Patient Support Services Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 10,507 Likes: 7 | Welcome to OCF. Sounds like you have been thru a rough time. Hope you get to start the hyperbaric treatments soon, so you can feel better. Im not familiar with pain increasing once HBO starts, mine dissappeared completely in a few days. It will help you to heal. Ive done 85 of them and it worked wonders for me. After about the first week I felt so much better.
As far as trying to be cheerful, thats sometimes tricky. I keep saying to myself on bad days, that I have gone thru so much worse and lived to tell about it. Many OC patients need anti-depressants to help them thru til they adjust.
Best of luck with your continued healing. Please post your HBO experiences. Also when you have time, add a signature so we can help you easier.
ChristineSCC 6/15/07 L chk & by L molar both Stag I, age44 2x cispltn-35 IMRT end 9/27/07 -65 lbs in 2 mo, no caregvr Clear PET 1/08 4/4/08 recur L chk Stag I surg 4/16/08 clr marg 215 HBO dives 3/09 teeth out, trismus 7/2/09 recur, Stg IV 8/24/09 trach, ND, mandiblctmy 3wks medicly inducd coma 2 mo xtended hospital stay, ICU & burn unit PICC line IV antibx 8 mo 10/4/10, 2/14/11 reconst surg OC 3x in 3 years very happy to be alive  | 
