Knocking on wood by prematurely declaring my cycle busted. 

First serious cycle since 2004.  All others during the interim nipped off via busting techniques. 

I am a bit of a geek, so I experiment quite a bit when in cycle.  Details below. 

Duration:  140 days.  June 29th - November 15th. 

D3 Regimen & Testosterone:  I started them both at about the same time.  All I will say they did was tone down how quickly a hit came on.  They did not break the cycle.  Frequency of hits was unchanged. 

Oxygen:  I am one of the fucking idiots who cannot effectively use o2.  I have a big bottle of welders o2, a great regulator, and as of now 4 demand valves.  To sum it up, o2 will abort for me very temporarily.  Within 10 minutes of ceasing o2 the hit is back.  I guess o2 is only effective on the less-severe migrainey variants of CH  .

I would say I consider doing o2 to be a real pain in the ass relative to sticking a needle in my arm.  Others would no doubt differ with that opinion. 

o2 Concentrator:  Bought myself an o2 Concentrator and an oximeter.  The oximeter confirmed that when I was getting hit in the evening my blood o2 level was lower than normal... around 92-93%.  My waking normal is 98%.

Slept for a few months with a nasal cannula on, taking o2 all night.  This had some effect in eliminating sleeping hits.  I would say it let me sleep through the night one in four times.  Overall... not really worth the hassle.

Busting:  Was caught with my pants down.  RC was the ticket for me up until day 1 of this cycle.  Now for some reason it is without effect for me.  Had nothing stronger readily available. 

Came across the better busting treatment.  Once a week dosing mid-cycle gave moderate relief lasting no more than 36 hours. 

Finally broke the cycle via 3 moderately strong back-to-back doses, once per evening.  It was starting to show signs of breaking.  Dosing polished it off. 

Imitrex / Sumatriptan:  As some of you know I used myself as a guinea pig for 'moonshine sumatriptan'.  Actually it is nothing of the sort.  I start with Suminat Nasal, which is really just a concentrated version of injectable sumatriptan, and cut it with saline resulting with an injectable solution.  I could not have been more pleased with the results.

To be honest, the home-cut sumatriptan kept me sane this episode.  I flip the fuck out when in cycle and get into medicine-hoarding mode.  I get particularly packrat-ish with Imitrex vials, and go light on the doses in attempts to preserve my supply. 

Well, once I got the formula just right I became rather acceptant and worry-free about my episode.  I was getting hit 5x daily, but I didn't give a shit... I had unlimited damn-near-free injections available.  As soon as I felt a hit coming on I immediately shot up.  I kept two pre-loaded syringes on the nightstand.  Most nights I was back asleep within 15 minutes.   

I took to occasionally using injections as a preventative... before flying, important business events, partying... if it was 4 hours+ since my last jab, I would preemptively take another shot. 

So... I took 374 injections of sumatriptan, 367 of them being my moonshine variant.  All injections were to the arms.  Minimum time of relief as around 4 hours at peak, 5 hours for the rest of the cycle.   

Average dose was 2ml with a response time around 9 minutes +/- 2 minutes.  During the peak 20% of the cycle my average dose was 2.5ml-3.0ml with times ranging from 10 to 20 minutes.   

Other observations:  As my cycle progressed I became really good and less stupid about noting if a hit was coming on.  No idea why, but for the first month or two I must have been suffering from a combination of Alzheimer's and denial.  I would feel a tightening in my neck and jaw, a tick in that spot on my head, a bit of stuffiness in that nostril... and I would think to myself 'I hope it goes away'.  Well, we all know that twenty minutes later I was trying to wear a hole in the carpet with my forehead, praying for the trex to take effect.  I would say it took a full six weeks for me to stop hoping it wasn't a hit and getting the needle in the arm.

Once I got aggressive about jabbing I can say my hits never got worse than a 3 before aborting, with most never making it past a gentle 2.        

What I would keep my moonshine sumatriptan in if my cycle lasted a bit longer:
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