thank you for the recomendation Linda.  i certainly will be getting oxygen for home, but not until i come back from deployment.  i wont be able to use oxygen while deployed, since i will be living in typical infantry conditions(we carry our homes on our backs).  so far the fish oil/D3 are working pretty well, so hopefully i wont need much in the way of abortives.  im reluctant to give a timeline for my deployment, but i can say that it is very soon. 
-Bird

I like the PF direction this is going in! 

hmmm... just had a thought about arterial ph affecting CH.  i rarely ever had really bad hits until i went down from exertional rhabdomyolisis.  for those who dont know what that is, it is what happens when you exercise too hard and damage too many muscles at once.  the contents of the muscles spill out into the blood stream, myoglobin(which crystalises in the blood stream and can damage the liver) and creatine kinase(which can also crystalise and damages the kidneys).  what got me thinking is that my blood ph was very low because of all the lactic acid i had built up.  they actualy IVed baking soda into my blood to balance it out.  im thinking that may be why my CH got so much worse from that day forward.  i was much more susceptable to rhabdomyolisis after i was injured the first time, and thinking about it, i normaly do get hit an hour or so after pt, when lactic acid is again built up.  im gonna go get some calcium citrate to have on hand...  i may be chasing red herrings here, but it does feel good to have SOMETHING to chase...

thanks for your support Richard.  this seems to me to be a pretty strong family.  the army being what it is, and army sick-call being what it is, i dont always see the same PA.  i rarely go to sick call unless i am told to, but when i do i usualy end up seeing a captain or a major, both of whom are quite full of themselves and do thier best to let me know they dont want to waste thier time on a "headache" patient.  our brand new luitenant right out of med school took one look at my face and refered me to neurology.  ive only seen the neurologist once, as she also treats TBI, which we get a lot of with people jumping out of planes and all.  with 40000 or so airborne personell on base and only 1 TBI clinic, its way overbooked.  she basicaly just diagnosed me, gave me a Rx for verapamil, and told me to look up this website(even though she couldnt remember the name of it).  she told me to schedule the nearest possible follow-up, which is for wednesday, the 18th.  so basicaly, ill be able to answere your question after that   i dont think ill get another apointment in before i deploy, so i gotta get what i can out of this one.  the information im getting here and my experiences are all going with me.  just having all this info makes a difference, its like i was going to war armed with a pocket knife and i was just given access to an armory.  anyway, i hope the calcium citrate and fish oil push you over the edge to PF.

ok, for the most part, still painfree.  slight shadows the last two mornings, but nothing more painful than a toothace.  i saw the neuro today, got a three month supply of 240mg verapamil, with 4 refills available.  looks like i wont be running out while im overseas.  i also got the imitrex injectors, ten injections with 3 refils.  i hope i dont have to use it.  i also got a prescription for the fish oil i take, so i dont have to buy it anymore.  she actualy prescribed me exactly what i said worked, 3000mg of fish oil per day.  if the pharmacy had vitamin d3, she would have prescribed that too.  at least i dont have to buy fish oil anymore   she also wants me to try maxalt melt as an alternative to the slow acting imitrex pills i had taken before, so i have a whole lot of those as well.  anyone have experience with rizatriptan(maxalt melt)?  im thinking about baiting the beast by stopping the fish oil and vitamin 3d so that i can test maxalts effectiveness.  i just dont want to find out if it works while driving a humvee...