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In spite of all of ozone's great results, it is also important to be grounded in realistic expectations of safety and efficacy.
1. It won't work for everything and everyone. For example, I have had 10-passes for my chronic bartonella infection without benefit.
2. Adverse effects exist. I did get sediment in my urine following higher pass treatments. Also, I regret to report I suffered a serious adverse reaction to a single highly conservative self-administered rectal ozone treatment. My chronic respiratory problems got worse that same night and never improved. Now diagnosed as reactive airway disease and I have to take 3 inhalers and megadoses of several supplements to manage the symptoms. What I think happened is this: I had already wrecked my gut flora for taking too many antibiotics. My gut had already spontaneously distended and never recovered and all my symptoms got worse at that time. Those good flora I believe were helping to manage the systemic inflammation. So I was a person with an already flagging gut flora. I think rectal ozone damaged the flora even more, worsening my symptoms.
3. It is natural for practitioner's to overlook adverse effects of treatments they like, just as it is natural for critics to deny benefits. The golden rule of AE's is that if you don't intentionally look, you won't find. And sometimes, the ones that have AEs are the ones that don't follow up.
4. I have concerns about AE case reports relating to paravertebral and other injections. Most of the published AEs seem to be from intradiscal injection, but not all. Not a lot of info exists there. Some of them seem embolism-related. I am not sure if anyone has reviewed that literature and developed treatment guidelines to prevent those.
5. Herx reactions are significant. Like with many other treatments, I think ramping the dose should be the standard. I have heard practitioners claim ozone never causes more than mild herx reactions, but this is not true. I have met people on forums who got shaken up more severely. In my opinion, unless it's urgent, 10-pass should never be the starting dose.
6. My personal opinion is that rectal ozone should be the least preferred route owing to potential interaction with gut flora.