Welcome to the board.  Sorry to hear you are in pain.  I will never understand Dr's who will not hesitate to Rx narcotics and then deny 02.  Welders 02 is an option if you cannot get your Dr to give you the medical 02. 

Hope you are pf soon.

Beth

When dealing with a doctor who has no experience/knowledge in a problem confronting them their reaction will be to be cautious: they don't want to harm the patient or themselves.

In such situations, you must present them with medical sourced literature which they can recognize and whose  authority they can accept. Several of us have had success with this approach. In effect, we educate our doctors without insulting them or brusing their ego.

If you will go back to my first reply to you, print out the Rozen article and then point out two items on one page--on oxygen and, in the next column on olanzapine. Give him the entire document as a way of outlining the most current best practice in treating CH.

This approach which I'm outlining is behind the suggestion that you buy the Robbins book (around $60) and offer to share it with him.

Now, if offering good material does not allow him to learn from you--then you have the classic signs of a closed mind and you need to find a new doc. It's sometimes the case that a younger doc will be be receptive. They are often more often to learning whereas the doc with decades of practice behind them also get rigid.

You have few options in Bermuda unless you can afford trips to the U.S. to visit a good headache clinic here and stay a couple of weeks. If this is not an option, then becoming assertive with your local docs is the best option.

First time starting a thread, perhaps?

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This would freak me out too.  Stop the narcotics and fire that A$$hole.  Get a Dr.....even your primary care Dr.....to give you a script for 02.  Print out the 02 page and take it to him. 

"02 isn't good for you"   but Percoset, Vicodin, Codiene, etc, IS??????

I'd have walked out of that room when he said that and reported him to the AMA.  Jeeze this stuff makes me so angry I may have to take anger management classes. 

Im not offended at all.

Keep reading, you may find something that will help. Try to get a tank of welding 02 and a mask. Thats what I use and it works great.

Keep your chin up, bro!