hey ppl im at a dead end any input would be much appreciated my hubby is a chronic CH he's had it for 3yrs but only was diagnosed 1 month ago his neurologist is Rx verapamil but that aint working... so he was just about to get 02 when his doctor realised he smokes and told the neurologist where can i get 02 without a Rx

I know a friend who has had ch for ten years and he just insisted to his GP to prescribe o2 he also smokes, typical of the NHS in this country.
I also have ch and don,t use o2 but was offered it by my GP
Colin

You have to be careful. 02 is not flammable.......but is an accelerant. What that means is it makes anything that burns.......burn really really really hot! So if he soaks his clothes with 02 while aborting a headache, then lights up a smoke, he will grow up like a roman candle.

So after you've used 02, take a walk, air out the clothes...THEN have a smoke. And smoking WHILE aborting an attack........we call that suicide. Good luck.

Joe

What Joe said, is the first thing they told me when delivering the first oxygen.
Thing is, to not light a f*g when you've just come off the O2. Step into the garden or the balcony for some time, then have a safe smoke.

Regards, Pascal.

Hi
What else is he on other than verapamil, cause thats only a prevent tablet ?
He should have some sort of relief also, if not get back to the quacks and try sumatriptan ( imigran ) 100mg tablets !
I gave up the verapamil as all they did was shift the attacks to a harder to cope with time of the day.
Sumatriptan work for ( me ) relief but they do take around 20min to kick in !
I take a tablet and go for a long walk, it doesnt help the pain but it means i have something else to try and concentrate on.

RaceAce wrote on Mar 4^th, 2009 at 5:44pm:

Hi What else is he on other than verapamil, cause thats only a prevent tablet ? He should have some sort of relief also, if not get back to the quacks and try sumatriptan ( imigran ) 100mg tablets ! I gave up the verapamil as all they did was shift the attacks to a harder to cope with time of the day. Sumatriptan work for ( me ) relief but they do take around 20min to kick in ! I take a tablet and go for a long walk, it doesnt help the pain but it means i have something else to try and concentrate on.

I was just checking my old posts,  and stumbled across thios old one. I noticed a word being censored, namely f*g. Ok, we all now what an addictive and awful habit smoking is, but to cut out the words to describe it? Isn't that fairly over the top?

I suspect that the person posting did it - not the website.

maalstroom wrote on Dec 11^th, 2009 at 8:06pm:

I was just checking my old posts,  and stumbled across thios old one. I noticed a word being censored, namely f*g. Ok, we all now what an addictive and awful habit smoking is, but to cut out the words to describe it? Isn't that fairly over the top?

f*g in the USA is a derogatory name for homosexuals. In the USA the word is cigarette for what you smoke. If this forum was hosted in other countries the words fanny and root would be censored although in the USA they mean completely different things.

Paul