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(Message started by: Yogi on Dec 23^rd, 2003, 12:00am)

Title: 02 Information
Post by Yogi on Dec 23^rd, 2003, 12:00am

Hi All

This is my first post here, but it seems apparent that 02 is really popular.

Can anyone give me details on cost and were a person goes to get some, and also how small of a tank can a person get ?

Thanks
Yogi

Title: Re: 02 Information
Post by Mastifflvr28 on Dec 23^rd, 2003, 12:07am

Hi Yogi,
Welcome to the board.
Everything you ever wanted to know about oxygen:

http://www.headachesupportgroups.com/oxygen/oxygen.htm

Good luck,
Mast

Title: Re: 02
Post by Mark C on Dec 23^rd, 2003, 12:08am

Hi Yogi
Welcome to the board. You are correct in the fact O₂ help a lot of us, myself included. Much information is avaliable on this site and the O.U.C.H. (http://www.clusterheadaches.org/) site. To start you O₂ primer........http://www.drfeller.com/Mark/textclickhere.gif (http://www.headachesupportgroups.com/oxygen/oxygen.htm)

PFDAN's

PS-Michelle you are good!
http://www.drfeller.com/Mark/mark.gif

Title: Re: 02 Information
Post by Mastifflvr28 on Dec 23^rd, 2003, 12:13am

Nah, YER good Mark,
I forgot bout the info on the ouch site.
Go there Yoga and read all the medical info you can find. Print it out for your doctor, if need be.
Take care,
Mast

Title: hotty
Post by rumplestiltskin on Dec 23^rd, 2003, 12:17pm

As i scrolled this post ....Georgia, looking over my shoulder, asked me to scroll back up so she could get a longer...closer look at yer photo Yogi. The cluster$lut is requesting that you please post a photo of yer lower half also. She used to work in Jellystone and developed a keen interest in bares.

I have our O2 ready fer her, so post away Mr. Hunk of Burnin Love....simple minds....simple pleasures.

Understand...I am vey old and wrinkled....so I indulge her. She is a constant source of embareassment to me....butt gol darn it...i loves her just the same.

blue CHRISTmas
den

Title: Re: 02 Information
Post by thomas on Dec 23^rd, 2003, 12:49pm

Welcome aboard :)

Title: Re: 02 Information
Post by CJohnson on Dec 23^rd, 2003, 1:24pm

Oxygen, as administered per the links provided for you above, can abort an attack by terminating the same activity that is terminated by subcutaneous administration of sumatriptan (imitrex injection).

"Cluster headache is a rare very severe disorder that is clinically well characterized with a relatively poorly understood pathophysiology. In this study patients with episodic cluster headache fulfilling the criteria of the International Headache Society were examined during an acute spontaneous attack of headache to determine the local cranial release of neuropeptides. Blood was sampled from the external jugular vein ipsilateral to the pain before and after treatment of the attack. Samples were assayed for calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP), vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP), substance P and neuropeptide Y. Attacks were treated with either oxygen inhalation, sumatriptan or an opiate. Thirteen patients were studied of whom 10 were male and three female. All had well-established typical attacks of cluster headache when blood was sampled. During the attacks external jugular vein blood levels of CGRP and VIP were raised while there was no change in neuropeptide Y or substance P. Calcitonin gene-related peptide levels rose to 110 +/- 7 pmol/l (normal: < 40) while VIP levels rose to 20 +/- 3 pmol/l (normal: < 7). Treatment with both oxygen and subcutaneous sumatriptan reduced the CGRP level to normal, while opiate administration did not alter the peptide levels. These data demonstrate for the first time in vivo human evidence for activation of the trigeminovascular system and the cranial parasympathetic nervous system in an acute attack of cluster headache. Furthermore, it is shown that both oxygen and sumatriptan abort the attacks and terminate activity in the trigeminovascular system."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=7518321&dopt=Abstract

PFDANs
-Curtis

Title: Re: 02 Information
Post by Yogi on Dec 23^rd, 2003, 2:33pm

Thank you all for the information.

I am already starting to prepare for my episodic attacks which normally start in September.

From the information that I have read I still haven't really found out how small of a 02 tank a person can get or what they cost.

Can a person use one of those emergency scuba bottles or is that too small ?

P.S. thanks for the compliment rumplestiltskin I think ha ha ha thats the only picture that I have up on www.

Cheers Yogi

Title: Re: 02 Information
Post by Not4Hire on Dec 23^rd, 2003, 5:18pm

Heyyyy Yogi... on page two of the o2 button/link at left is a discussion of size and *some* costs. This varies greatly depending on where you live.

The scuba tanks are NOT pure OXYGEN, they are simply compressed air--about 19-20% oxygen. I'm pretty sure it is addressed *somewhere* in that link. Or just click this:

http://www.headachesupportgroups.com/oxygen/oxygen.htm

good luck!