Great to hear the 02 and imitrex are working for you. Have you ever tried any preventative medications? A preventative med being one you take daily, while on cycle, to reduce frequency and intensity of your hits. I use lithium, other popular prevents are verapamil and topomax. Definitely something to talk with your doc about. Lithium blocks about 70% of my hits, oxygen deals with most of the rest.

Glad you found us, hoping we can help you out!

Joe

Hello and thank you for your replies.  After so many years I have tried just about everything except lithium.  I've either gotten bad reactions to the drugs or they just did not work.   I found out about oxygen from reading this sight and I thank God for it.  I'll look into the lithium and again, thank you.

Hi Barry.  Yes, my regulator goes up to 15 and it does take the headache away most times.  But the headache comes right back when I fall asleep.  I read that these headaches sometimes go away when you get older and that sounded like one of the few benefits to aging.  Ah, well.  Thank you all.  I'll keep reading.

I had the exact problem my last cycle.  Hardly any hits during the day.

I had night hits every hour after falling asleep until about 6:30am.  Seems I could get a good two hours sleep then.  Unfortunately work was getting in the way of doing that every day.

You can try messin around with melatonin.  Works for some. Not for me though.

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Hola....that happens to me a lot too. I go to sleep and shortly after i'm sucking air. Takes about 15 min, I go back to sleep...back again. It's like the CH is telling you "I WASN"T FRIGGIN FINISHED WITH YOU AN HOUR AGO!!! " Sometimes if I wake up suddenly I get hit. 02 and Imitrex injection (when I'm not near my 02) work best for me.
Im just glad I'm having a break now. I can actually down my vino and not have to worry. Hope I never see CH's again! (yeh)

Hi venuto, welcome

I see by your post that the worst time is while you are trying to sleep & it goes on all night.
I am guessing that imitrex is the equilivent to the Aussie Imigran (used for migraines), if this is the case then something that may be worth giving a try is while you are huffing on the o2 & you have killed the initial hit is to take an imitrex & then continue with the huffing.

Below is a cut & paste from the oxygen info tab & is the method I use for o2.

"My preferred method is to count the number of breaths I take to get rid of the hit & then stay on the O2 for the same amount of breaths, I can usually abort a hit with about 80 to 100 breaths but I breathe straight from the bag as I have a beard & can’t get a proper seal with the mask.
The most important thing is to be absolutely sure that you have killed the hit, no "maybe’s" or "nearly", if you don’t ensure its gone before you do the follow up breathing there’s a good chance of getting a rebound hit & that will be even harder to get rid of than the original one."

By taking the Imigran while huffing I can get 6-8 hours PF & is usually enough time to get some rest even if I cant actually go back to sleep; I stumbled across this purely by trial & error, if you take the Imigran before or after the o2 huffing they wont do J.S., why it works this way I really don’t know but it works well for me & a couple of others here.

Cheers
Barry

Im the same as snickers although not used my injections yet as 02 has worked without fail!!

PFD To ALL

That's actually a good point Bob. I had learned the hard way, it definately has to be taken at the onset, the earlier the better.

I used to do an imitrex tab before bed and that did the trick.  I will occasionally use an imitrex injection f I wake up with a really bad one, but Oxygen is usually the go to abortive for night time hits.  Verapamil as a preventative keeps those at bay though.