Just to add, there is also a mouthpiece which you can use directly if you don't want to use the mask for some reason. Basically it's for men with beards who can't get a good seal round the mask but could be useful to any one for various reasons- including if you should fall asleep.

Bob Johnson wrote on Sep 23^rd, 2015 at 3:03pm:


While I will not recommend this for anyone, and you may be right about Imitrex not working for most developed attacks, this is not my experience.

Some attacks are not pure evil, and some never develops. I have bad experience with Imitrex causing more attacks, so I'm generally cautious using it. That is why I often wait until the pain is unbearable with the Imitrex injection. It's my last resort.

I have never experienced that it doesn't take the pain away within 5-7 minutes. Perhaps I'm just lucky.

Hi Maz,
           The pill before sleep is a life saver, and has worked 100% of the time for me, especially after having countless interrupted nights sleep thru a cycle, then the reprieve of a full nights un interrupted sleep !  bliss !.
The quickest a pill has worked for me, from the first wee tingle in the head is about 30 minutes !  mine generally last about 40-45 minutes, so not much of an effect really.
I'm so glad the regime has made my cycles so much milder, as my next move would have had to have been injectables, and there's three things I hate in life,  Warm beer, Runny Ice cream and NEEDLES !   I wouldn't have been able to do it !      I truly admire those that are able too.

all the best
colin

HaHa,
          Your right maz, anythings better than a kip 9-10 !!
   My local pharmacy holds the injectable imigran, but luckily I haven't needed to go there. In fact, even though my neuro ( which I haven't seen for 18 months)  is good, the injectable was never offered, in fact I learnt about them when I joined the forum here. My local doctor that I've been seeing for the last 18 months and who has seen the results for me on the Vit regime and been doing all the blood tests didn't even know that was an option when I bought it up with her. But, she acknowledged that If I need them she would write up a script, so that's good.
Hope your doing well Maz ?
colin
 

Hi Maz,  sorry for the delay, my inlaws arrived from " "aussie brians" neck of the woods, so we've had to acclimatise them to our Melbourne weather and comfort them from the shock !
I'm going o'k at the minute, I've been in a cycle now for about 6-7 weeks, which is the normal time of the year for me, especially though since we had the warmest October here on record and the pollen count has been off the scale. But, apart from 7-8 break thru kip 1-2's, and a lot of aura shadows, that's been the extent of it. Those kip 1-2 hits have decided to come at precisely 1.00 am in the last week, so I've foiled them for the last few nights by popping an imigran pill before bed time. I've tinkered with the Benadryl, which has been really effective, so its just a case of riding this out now.  Basically, this is my third cycle this year and all of them have basically been just a nuisance factor, with the same intensity, so I'm so happy, and so appreciative of the regime and Batches help.
We took the in laws to dinner last nite, a 5 minute walk to our local Thai restaurant, I couldn't resist sneaking a mouth full of my wife's red wine, my first drink of alcohol in probably 3 years, within 5 minutes, I got slammed ! I had to walk outside into the cool air of the night, thinking that I'd have to make a dash home, but it got to kip 2" ish and was gone in 5 minutes !   What a fool I was !  But wow it tasted nice 
As far as our Holiday goes, I had to tell my wife of my so called surprise ! because we want to try and go for 4-5 weeks, so her work is letting her know by xmas, whether it will be April/ may or august/September, so where in limbo at the minute. They generally only like 2-3 week holidays to be taken at one time, but we are not going to travel all that way for just 2 or 3 weeks, we want at least 4-5 weeks.
  We are SO overdue for a decent holiday and I'm so looking forward to next year !  I'll keep you informed when we actually find out from her work.
all the best, hope things are treating you well
talk soon
colin

Hi Globi
The typical non rebreather mask as supplied by hospitals has small holes on each side. One side is usually covered with a small disc, so acts as a one way vent, to let air out, but not in. The holes on the other side are not covered. Air can get in, so although you are breatheing a much higher concentration of 02, the air prevents it from being absolutely pure. I guess the holes are in case you should fall asleep and the tank runs out (which I have done a few times). You can block the holes up, but without that extra air getting in I found it was hard to breathe deeply as the bag doesn't really hold enough.

The mask you can buy here has no holes so the 02 stays pure.

Also, if you take the normal non rebreather  mask off and put the tube in your mouth and seal your lips around it, this also prevents the outside air getting in as you inhale, so the 02 stays pure. The purer the 02, the quicker it will take effect.