A person who has spent hundreds of kilos and travelled the world over to try to discover a remedy for lengthy Covid has lastly found a remedy which has given him again his high quality of life.
Eoin Maxwell from Glengormley was knocked off his ft for 18 months with power fatigue after contracting Covid-19 in March 2020.
The 28-year-old, who owns Max Match gymnasium in Glengormley, needed to put his life on maintain as his power ranges had been so low, he couldn’t depart the home.
Decided to get again on his ft he spent hundreds seeing specialists and present process checks each right here and at analysis institutes in South Africa and Germany.
Final October he found hyperbaric oxygen remedy (HBOT) and after just some weeks was amazed to have his high quality of life restored.
Eoin has since forked out £15,000 for his personal HBOT chamber which he has been requested to rent out to assist different lengthy Covid sufferers.
HBOT is a option to hypothetically flip up the quantity of oxygen absorption by growing the atmospheric strain.
The strain contained in the chamber is generally two to a few occasions better than exterior air strain, which suggests sufferers are inhaling 100% oxygen.
For Eoin, the remedy has been life-changing.
He says: “I had 18 months of mendacity on a settee as a result of my muscle weak spot was so excessive.
“I couldn’t go to work and I couldn’t socialise. I couldn’t depart the home.
“I used to be finally recognized with lengthy Covid on the finish of 2020 however the physician informed me there wasn’t a lot that might be accomplished about it.
“I began to analysis and get checks accomplished to see how I may get higher.”
Eoin paid privately to see plenty of consultants together with a rheumatologist, neurologist and respiratory specialist and underwent quite a few checks together with CT and MRI scans.
He additionally tried quite a few well being dietary supplements and altering his weight loss plan however nothing appeared to work.
He then found advances in analysis into lengthy Covid had been being made on the Stellenbosch College exterior Cape City.
The college found that blood samples from sufferers with lengthy Covid contained an irregular quantity of micro clots.
After arranging to fly out and have his blood examined by the analysis group, Eoin additionally found analysis that confirmed raised blood oxygen was additionally benefitting sufferers. He found a hyperbaric oxygen chamber in Larne and instantly began to ebook periods in it.
He explains: “My aim was to get some high quality of life again no matter it took. I had booked to go to South Africa in January of this 12 months.
“Final October I examine the advantages of HBOT and located the one chamber there may be right here is in Larne.
“After a couple of month of going 5 occasions every week I actually observed a distinction. It gave me the power to go to South Africa, with out it, the journey would have been an actual battle.
“After I was there I used to be capable of go physique boarding and revel in it. I couldn’t have accomplished that earlier than I attempted the oxygen remedy.
“In whole, with journey and the medical checks I've most likely spent £7,000 of my financial savings. I used to be additionally down my wages as a result of I used to be unable to work for over a 12 months.
“I'm fortunate that I part-own the gymnasium with my brother so I had some earnings.”
With the oxygen remedy giving him the power to get again to work and out socialising once more, Eoin determined to spend money on a chamber of his personal.
It price him £15,000 to have one shipped from England and he now makes use of it at the least 5 occasions every week.
When a buyer at his gymnasium informed him a couple of good friend with lengthy Covid, he determined not too long ago to make it obtainable to others.
He says: “It’s superb how many individuals you communicate to who know somebody with lengthy Covid.
“I believed I may rent it out and recoup a few of my cash whereas additionally serving to others, so it was a win-win.”
Up to now there was enormous curiosity within the remedy, not simply from lengthy Covid sufferers however others recovering from sports activities accidents in addition to most cancers sufferers.
Eoin believes it takes between 5 and 10 one-hour periods earlier than the advantages turn out to be obvious.
He provides: “That is the one factor that has helped me. I'm quite a bit higher however I nonetheless can’t train and I nonetheless have good days and dangerous days however the dangerous days are fortunately changing into much less and fewer.
“I can socialise and work once more and I really feel as if it has given me my life again.”
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