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CHsRtheDeviL CH.com Junior Offline Kill The Beast!!! Posts: 70 Downers Grove Gender:	Oxygen question Jul 18^th, 2013 at 5:02pm So I got a oxygen tank today set up in my bedroom. Its set up at 15 LPM the only problem is I don't have a mask. Obviously I prolly need one but for now I just got a tube that you can breath through the nose. Can I just straight up breath it through the tube for now? Or will inhaling through the nose work fine to?
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Re: Oxygen question
Reply #1 - Jul 18^th, 2013 at 7:02pm

Unfortunatly the 'nasal canula' is almost worthless for CH. You can't get 100% pure O2 with one. Breathing thru the tube is only slightly better. I highly recommend you get one of the masks on the link below.
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Until you can get a proper mask you can make a home made set up with a trash bag. Do a search on, home made oxygen mask, on the site to read about it. In the meantime breathing thru the hose is better than nothing.

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CHsRtheDeviL CH.com Junior Offline Kill The Beast!!! Posts: 70 Downers Grove Gender:	Re: Oxygen question Reply #2 - Jul 18^th, 2013 at 7:34pm Thanks for the info
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Reply #3 - Jul 19^th, 2013 at 1:34am

You can definitely breath straight from the tube with your mouth, just don't take in any outside air. I fold/pinch the tube to conserve while exhaling, the only catch is whether 15 lpm will keep up with your
breathing rate. If it will keep up, you'll get 100% pure oxygen and that will do the trick. I do this at work all the time, it's less obvious to those that won't understand.

Good luck, Sean

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Re: Oxygen question
Reply #4 - Jul 19^th, 2013 at 2:21am

CHsRtheDeviL,

Make yourself a redneck reservoir bag. The "How to" instructions can be found at the following link:

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You make one of these contraptions out of a clean 40 gal trash bag and pre-fill it for use ahead of time so even a flow rate of 15 liters/minute will work to support hyperventilation.

The important thing is to be breathing fast enough and deeply enough to hyperventilate. I know that may sound scary... it's not. I've done it for over 7 years and prior to that, I flew Navy fighters for over 3000 hours... I sucked down a lot of 100% oxygen at very high flow rates during all that flight time from takeoff to trap aboard ship.

While you're at it, check out the anti-inflammatory regimen with 10,000 IU/day vitamin D3, 1000 mg/day Omega-3 Fish Oil, and the vitamin D3 cofactors... You can find all the info and "How To" at the following links:

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We've over 400 CH'ers from here at CH.com on this regimen and so far the efficacy in preventing cluster headaches is around 80%. At 20 cents a day for a very healthy regimen of vitamins and minerals with no real side effects... It's worth a try. The odds are in your favor you'll have a fantastic pain free response.

I'm a chronic CH'er and have been pain free since starting this regimen in Oct 2010.

Take care and please keep us posted.

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