Hi Ernie.  Sorry the beast is kicking your butt right now.  I feel for ya brother.

To my knowledge, O2 doesn't cause rebounds.  However reattacks are not unusual.  You see once you've achieved abort, the conditions that set things in motion still persist.  So it is possible for the beast to wake you back up again.

How long are you staying on the O2?  I usually abort in 10 minutes or less but stay on the tank for a full 15.  I also drink coffee or an energy drink to back the O2 up.  Don't go right back to bed.  Wait another 10-15 mintes to see if the attack begins to come back.  If it does, hit him with another 15 minutes of O2.  This approach will generally keep the beast at bay for me.

Of course for those rare occasions where this doesn't work I fall back on my Imitrex or an Amerge to stay asleep the rest of the night.

Are you on any preventives?  Forgive me if you've already covered this somewhere else.

Hope this helps some.  Wishing you PFDAN soon.

-Dennis-

Thanks guys, Dennis as to meds I am on more than Carter has little pills (for we older chaps used to be liver pills until they discovered the pills did nothing for the liver)  verapamil 480mg daily, lithium 600mg daily and topomax 400mg daily.  I do stay on the O2 for about 5 min after aborting.  I guess the demon is showing his rear end.  I have been a CH for 12 yrs and this is the first time this particular event has occurred.  Normally my first line of attack has been to hit the imitrex and then jump on the O2, but I have been relying soley on O2 so I thought maybe because I was being hit so many times the O2 might be causing a rebound.  As I said earlier (knock on wood) fortunately thus far I have not been awakened with an 8 or 9 which I have in the past.  If this were occurring every hour I am not quite sure what I would do, so long as they are in the 3-5 range as Donna Summer sang I will Survive.  One note and I cannot remember who posted, but last night at 3:50 I got up and did not get on O2 (granted it was at the most a 4.5) and went the bathroom and did the pumping of my arms above my head.  I did not have a clock in the bathroom so I have no idea how long I did this, but I am not not long (as we all do I smoke like crazy am 60 years old so what do you expect) but after I gave out pumping the sucker was gone.  I did not drink a Red Bull or anything.  I did blow my nose and went back to bed and did not have another attack and did not wake up until 6:45 which is 45 minutes later than normal (I don't set a clock I just wake up every day between 5:30 and 6:00 CST).  I did have some shadows so I drank a Red Bull and drank strong coffee.  If you are reading this I apologize for the length, but I thought it may be of interest.  Julie says I am extremely verbose in speech and obviously this trait carries over in print as well.  Thanks again.  Wishbone

First hello Ernie and I will pray for you Brother.
sounds like your having a tough go of it. I know I feel like I have been forsaken sometime and my prayers go unanswered but when the hits stop and the pain goes away i just love the lord more.
No I don't think the O2 is causing you rebounds.

Karl

Just what Dennis said.  Not rebounds but a reattack.  Pretty much the attack isn't really over, you just temporarily aborted the pain.  So its hard to say sometimes how many attacks you are getting while on o2.  Thats my experience anyway

Thanks guys for the all the replies.  I did not think the O2 was causing the problem, just wanted to confirm that the Demon was just angry right now.  Not hitting trix much so that is not the problem either.  I am getting some zomig ns as I did good things about it at Convention, but what I read on internet it said it took 10mg to aborb but it comes in 5mg spray, I guess you just try the 5mg and see what happens, huh.  Jonny, although Martial Arts is my hobby (4th degree Black Belt Karate) and still compete when not in cycle I promise I won't call myself a chicken again.  Thanks Again.  BTW the Black Belt stuff is a joke not a vicious bone in my body.  Wishbone

No BD I am not on melatonin.  What is it?  Yes I do have a 25LPM regulator for my E Tank, but as I said I have been using my concentrator at night simply because it is so much easier.  I know I know.  But like I said the hits have not been in the real high kip (3-5) and mistakenly I thought they were aborting in about 10 minutes and I was staying on another 5 minutes.  What I have not been doing was drinking coffee or a RB.  I was just going back to sleep.

Thanks BD I'll try that.  I had even thought about turning my Concentrator down to 2LPM and sleeping with on all night.  When I sleep my heart rate drops down to probably as low as 40 bpm so I was thinking I may be getting too little O2.  My normal resting heart rate is about 60-64 during the day time.

Ernie - Don't start your melatonin usage at 15mg. The recommendations on the label usually say "take one 3mg tablet just before bed." This is for people who don't have CH, but 15mg is five times the recommended dosage, so you may want to start lower than that until you become accustomed to what it does to you.

If you were to wake up 90 minutes after taking 15mg to abort a hit, it's conceivable that you might fall over when you get out of bed. I take 6mg before bed, and if I have to get up to pee, I notice how messed up my equilibrium is.

In short, start low and work higher if needed.

To My darling husband (Wishbone/Ernie Moss): 

You need to proof read your posts.  Sometimes they don't make sense or it sounds like you don't know proper English! 

Hugs and Kisses, Your Wife (Mrs. Wishbone/Julie Moss)

Thanks Brew, but I don't make sense most of the time and just because I have 19 years of formal education I never claimed to know English.

Mrs. Wishbone wrote on Jul 25^th, 2008 at 6:52pm:

It's okay, dear. I forgive you.