I live in the USA. I did try this therapy several years ago for neuropathic pain and it really did not help. It was a "cool" experience and made me feel better (probally an oxygen high). I have read that if you are treated with this early enough (3 to 6 months), it can be of some benefit to T sufferers. I had a milder form of T when I had these treatments and I did not notice an difference in T. My health insurance did not cover these treatments and they were 80.00 each. The doctor recommended to do 10 treatments...I only did 4 or 5.

i got bent once,but optioned not to go in the chamber,but i knew others divers that did and they and d.a.n. never mentioned any ringin issues at all...........

Here is a breif summation of a study done on the affects of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) on tinnitus.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=10654180&ordinalpos=26&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

HBOT is an interesting form of therapy, but it's little sited in context of tinnitus cures and treatment to my understanding.

To quote the study linked above:

"In conclusion, hyperbaric oxygenation seems to be a moderately effective additional treatment in the therapy of tinnitus after primary hemorheologic therapy, provided the time from onset of tinnitus is less than 1 month."

Ok... so does this suggest GP's should be rushing T patients into HBOT chambers as soon as they report tinnitus? If it's within 6 months, I think they should. Do I think it will cure my tinnitus? Doubt it. But these facts and studies are so little known. As always, its up to us to do the research. Thanks for the post Madona.

I've done more reading on this subject. JohnK was exactly righ about time frame of treatment. Everything I read says "within first few months"

I'm going to give this a shot myself after reading what I have, if I can get partial coverage.

PRO: it involves very little risk and can benefit more than just the ear.

CON: If you're in states, it could be costly.

when you have nothing to lose evrything is worth trying once if there is no obvious danger .
I will try for it
thanks for the link .every research found helps srenghen the arguement for referral .

I always heard/read you needed to do hyperbaric oxygen chamber therapy within the first three months of T, but I stumbled across a 1998 German study that said this:

"In all other 50 studies evaluated here with a total of 4,109 patients suffering from idiopathic sudden hearing loss, acoustic trauma or noise-induced hearing loss and/or tinnitus, HBO therapy was administered as a secondary therapy, i.e. following unsuccessful conventional therapy.

"If the onset of affliction was more than 2 weeks but no longer than 6 weeks, 4% no longer experienced tinnitus, 81.3% observed an intensity decrease and 1.2% an intensity increase of their tinnitus condition. 13.5% remained unchanged (fig. 2).

"If HBO therapy was administered later [than 6 weeks], but still within 3 months following onset of affliction, 7% no longer suffered from tinnitus, 44% reported an intensity decrease, a similar percentage noticed no change, and 5% a temporary worsening of their tinnitus condition."

OK, we knew all that, BUT HERE'S THE INTERESTING PART:

"If the onset of affliction was longer than 3 months up to several YEARS, one third of the cases reported an intensity decrease of tinnitus, 60-62% reported no change, and 4-7% noticed a temporary intensity increase (fig.4)."

So I'm just wondering whether later studies conflicted with this last part (about the years) or whether the odds of success are just so small for the cost (33% chance of success for $100-250 per session, if I recall correctly what I've read about cost) so people are hesitant to try it. And I forget: are there even places in the US that do this for T? (None of the places around me would do it for T or would even try when I called them at the onset of my T.)

Anyway, I just found these statistics interesting and wondered how valid they are these many years later.

I have a place, right down the street that does these treatments.
I am in Los Angeles.

My doctor also claims that you need to do these treatments, within a short period of time, after your T starts.

A friend of mine, had a light case of T, she did the chamber, and her T went away. I think it's worth trying.