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Red light therapy for long covid?
Has anyone tried red light therapy to treat long covid brain fog and lethargy? There appeaars to be a small but growing amount of peer-reviewed research showing promising benefits.
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Rent one, as in for use in your home? Never heard of it. Buy one for around $70K US. Insurance covers treatments in one for a limited number of medical issues, but I've not heard/seen that long covid symptoms are one of those issues. See: https://www.hyperbaricmedicalsolutions.com/blog/how-much-does-hyperbaric-oxygen-therapy-cost
The message I was replying to mentioned that they were renting one, which I had also never heard of. Initially I found some information on renting, but no prices. I did, however, just now manage to find a site with pricing (https://affordablehyperbaricsolutions.com/hyperbaric-chambers/). Purchase ranges from $5K to $19K, and rental is from $600-$1500/month. At $250-600 per treatment, you wouldn't need very many treatments in a month to make renting one a very good deal, even with the oxygen concentrator (at an additional $300/month).
I am renting mine from "Affordable hyperbaric solutions" at $1050.00 per month. It gets to 1.5 Atmospheres (the ones doctors have are 1.7 and above). I chose a small chamber that looks like a capsule, 9 feet long and almost 3 feet tall. It doesn't feel claustrophobic to me. I mostly lie down because I can barely seat in there. You can use your cell phone inside, watch movies, etc. although for me it is the best time to meditate. My neurologist said I could use it twice a day for about 1 hour. I'm out of town now but I can send pictures when I get back.
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1 ReactionMe too. Did you find any real RED LIGHT THERAPY Atlanta ?
Have you noticed any improvement in your symptoms since starting RLT back in March?
I had commented some time ago about possibility of hiring a hyperbaric chamber , in Uk…did lots more research and had come across papers that suggested the improvement is from much higher compression as in professional divers decompression chambers or/ and where pressure could be deliberately altered to change the way oxygen ‘forced’ into the lungs. Somewhere, I thought on the Mayo forum but can’t find it again so probably not, a woman had actually been on/ continue to be on a trial with a 4 atmos.chamber and had seen improvement after about 20 sessions …that would be a huge price for most of us…and she thought she’d get another 20. Anyway…how have you got on with the 1.5 atmos. capsule at home after a further 5 weeks or so?