OxyBoost Complex. Altitude Formula for Acclimation to Ski or Mountain Trips with Vitamin C, Alpha Lipoic Acid (60 Servings)…

My wife and I used these pills on a recent trip to Grand Teton during a backpacking trip at elevation. We were coming from sea-level, and had no problem hiking all day and sleeping overnight ~10,000 feet. We also used a drink mix (Accli-Mate) and felt no effects of altitude sickness at all. I will say, we put the pills in a small ziploc bag during our hike, and they smelled absolutely terrible, and after a few days of taking several times a day I began to have a sulfuric taste in my mouth. Small price to pay for being able to ascend with no issues, in my opinion! I'm looking forward to having these for a snowboarding trip to Colorado this winter as well.

Altitude Rx is a life saver! We just bought a vacation house in the mountains that is at 11300 feet, and we live at sea level. I had never heard of altitude sickness until I experienced it, and it was no picnic! I get it all nausea, vomiting, headache, dizziness and extreme fatigue for the first 4 days. And I have experienced this 3 out of 3 times we went up to our house. I even tried staying at lower altitudes for 2 nights before heading up and still got sick. I tried Ginko Biloba and it may have helped just a little. After reading the reviews I figured this would be worth it even if it only relieved my symptoms somewhat. A warning before taking this, be careful what you eat and how full you are. The directions said take with food, but this medication has a bicarbonate effect, you can actually feel it bubbling up in to your throat. So if you take it on a full stomache you may loose your lunch so to speak. I took it after a banana smoothie and the effect was much like the banana/sprite challenge, not pretty. I took the additional doses after eating but I waited about an hour and a half. Also the directions on the bottle and the directions on their website do not match. So this is what I did. I took 2 pills for 1 day morning and night starting 24 hrs before I left. So here is the life saving part, No altitude sickness at all! The only thing I did experience which I am sure was from sleep deprivation from the drive was upon arriving in our town at 9900 feet, I felt light headed and had trouble breathing, but within 20 minutes that was gone. So after being at our house for about 3 days I did start to feel a little fatigued and my head was hurting a little so I took another dose and I was back on track. Highly recommend this product!

I've been to the mountains three times. The first two times I had altitude sickness to the point where I could not eat more than one or two bites of food without feeling horribly ill.I had headaches and I was dizzy all the time.My third trip to the mountains was for a ski trip with friends a few weeks ago. I was nervous I would have the same reaction as before and would not be able to participate and drag our group down, so I got these pills in hopes to avoid that. THEY WORKED.I started taking the pills a day or so before we left and took one in the morning and one in the evening every day that we were there and I hardly had any of the the usual symptoms. I could feel sometimes the pill starting to wear off and that's when I would take my next one. That aligned with the timing of taking them on the directions.You get a lot of pills for the money. This will last you a long time.I'm so glad I got these, they saved our ski trip.I also get really bad altitude sickness while flying in airplanes. I plan on using these for my next plane trip as well.I don't care if it is just a placebo effect. It was well worth the $35 for me to not feel miserable for a week and get to enjoy the trip with my friends and family.

This works, however it doesn't eliminate acclimation problems completely for me.If i take it when we go skiing (7,000--11,000 ft) I have no I'll effects while I'm there (other than a little trouble sleeping--which happens every time I travel, which it's why I pack ambien for trips).However, when i get back home (500 ft.), I have terrible de-acclimation problems: headache, nausea, difficulty breathing, difficulty concentrating, tiredness.So if i take it, I have no problems on the trip, but feel bad a couple days when i get home.But if i don't take, I feel bad a couple days on the trip, but have no trouble when i return home.Choose your poison, I guess. I'd rather have a great trip and convalesce at home.

I purchased this product in 2016 and I'm just writing a review now because I recently stumbled across some of my medical records from a brief stay at a hospital in Kathmandu.I purchased this product prior to a trek to Everest Base Camp in Nepal. At the time, I was at my physically fittest, 11% body fat, doing routine high intensity interval training, eating clean, no drugs, no tobacco, no alcohol. On advisement, I also ate vegetarian in Nepal, hydrated well with electrolytes, and followed the proper acclimatization schedule (hike high, sleep low, rest days) as advised by the professional guiding service I used.I started taking the product before landing in Lukla (9k ft) and I followed the recommended dosage instructions on the bottle (details elude me now). At 15k ft, several days into the trek, I experienced ataxia (unstable gait) and had difficulty getting out of bed. My guide gave me either diamox or maybe dexamethasone and advised me to immediately descend. I took a medevac chopper back down to Kathmandu, where I spent the next 3 days to recuperate.I was diagnosed with HACE (High Altitude Cerebral Edema), which Wikipedia told me kills something like 99% of people that don't descend from altitude within 24 hours. I think I read that it's conjectured to be a more severe form of AMS (Altitude Mountain Sickness).Like me, you've probably been training, researching, and preparing all you can to get ready for some high altitude adventure. Everyone is different, but I can tell you I was as well prepared and conditioned as I could have been, but at my first extended experience above 14k ft using these pills, they did absolutely nothing for me and I almost died in the process.