Doc's Cluster Headache Journal

Wednesday, November 02, 2005

... and Oxygen, too

I forgot to add to the list:

OXYGEN: didn't seem to work very well. Maybe took the edge off? Doc can confirm or deny this. I think that we concluded that it was pretty useless and it was more of a pain to wrangle with the insurance company about it than the O2 was helpful.

posted by Katy at 4:22 PM

2 Comments:

  • I am chronic Clusterhead and just wanted to share with you.

    A fellow CH'er in England devloped an awesome Non-rebreather mask and it is making a world of difference for thos of us who have found O2 to be no longer effective.
    I figured I would share.
    Here is the link.
    http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/
    ~tritech2/clusterx/index.html

    Good luck & PF wishes

    Eric

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11/02/2005 4:58 PM  

  • If I could feel like I got any relief from O2 it may be worth the enormous hassle involved with getting it but we have tried it twice an I can say that the effectiveness of it was disappointing. From what I recall it helped a very small amount on mild to mid range attacks and seemed to have no effect on really bad ones...

    I hope this makes sense but I don't see a point in anything that doesn't stop attacks above level 5-6 which for me so far is nothing.

    By Blogger Murdock Scott, at 11/02/2005 7:31 PM  

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