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I'm not a fan of the masks personally. I find it much easier to apply the breathing method that batch mentioned when sucking straight from the pipe/bag. Just personal preference. Been lurking on your mesculine implementation and wishing you the best of PF days.

I lurk way more than I post. I have been using your breathing method since I read about it several years ago and swear by it. It is IMO way more important than the LPM. I have, humorously, had built my own "redneck resevoir" as the pictures you posted to get the most out of my concentrator. Your setup is much more "lasting" and better done - I think i'm going to try your version - seems like it's more "built to last." It seems like one thing us clusterheads have in common is we are very resourceful when it comes to trying to tame this beast.

Thanks very much for the kind words. They mean a lot to me. I just posted this at another thread, but it seems pertinent here: My daughter has CH (I don't). Six years ago, people here helped us learn how she could manage it, after she had been misdiagnosed and mistreated for years by some "highly trained" neurologists. That's why I'm here -- out of gratitude; to keep learning as much as I can; and to try to help keep anyone I can from going through what she went through. The heroes of this board and the CH community are too numerous to mention. In my view, everyone who fights CH is a hero. Back when I came to this board, before Facebook, this was a livelier place. There were at least 20 people here, whose screen names I could still list off the top of my head, who helped me and my daughter within a matter of just a few days. It brings tears to my eyes just thinking of how much I owe, and we all owe, to them. In many ways, I'm just a conduit for what they taught me. I've been really happy lately to see some newer folks taking up the campaign here, providing great help, advice, and support. Dallas Denny, spiny, and I, among others, are getting up there in years, and so until there's a cure or at least a 100% effective treatment, there's going to be work to be done and eventually it will be done you all. Keep it up, folks, please keep it up.

Hey Bounty, Allow me to offer a different opinion and option regarding the use of an oxygen concentrator. In researching why oxygen regulators with flow rates high enough to support hyperventilation and oxygen demand valves were more effective with shorter CH abort times than a constant flow regulator at 15 liters/minute, I found that lowering serum CO2 was a key component in obtaining fast and reliable CH aborts. A lower arterial CO2 content elevates the arterial pH (more alkaline) and this is a more powerful vasoconstrictor than oxygen even at 95% purity from the oxygen concentrator. The elevated alveolar pH enables blood hemoglobin to upload roughly 15% more oxygen so this turbocharges the blood oxygen flow to the brain to help make the abort even faster and more reliable. Around 2011 I developed a new method of oxygen therapy called Hyperventilation and Oxygen Therapy that has proven to be just as effective as a 40 liter/minute regulator or an oxygen demand valve in delivering rapid and reliable CH aborts. It essentially calls for hyperventilating at forced vital capacity tidal volumes with room air for 30 seconds followed by the inhalation of a lungful of 100% oxygen that's held for 30 seconds before exhaling into the room and repeating the hyperventilation with room air. Hyperventilating with room air accomplishes the same thing as hyperventilating with a regulator set at 40 liters/minute or an oxygen demand valve except it uses no oxygen. The only oxygen consumed with this method of oxygen therapy is the inhaled lungful ~ 4 liters, that's held for 30 seconds. This method of oxygen therapy consumes roughly 4 liters of oxygen a minute and results in an average abort time of 7 minutes for a total of 28 liters of oxygen per abort. That's roughly a tenth the amount of oxygen consumed with each abort with an oxygen demand valve or high flow regulator set at 40 liters/minute. I also invented what I call the Red Neck Oxygen Reservoir Bag made out of a clean 40 gal trash bag or 30 gal kitchen garbage bag. I use a plastic Coke bottle with its cap and the bottom cut off as the mouthpiece, the tubing from an old disposable non-rebreathing oxygen mask, some electrician's tap and some Duck tape. After the Coke bottle mouthpiece has been inserted through one corner of the bag's bottom and the oxygen tubing through the other corner, I seal both with electrician's tape for an air tight seal then close the open end of the bag with a strip of Duck tape as illustrated in the following photos. It turns out my Red Neck Reservoir bag works exceptionally well with an oxygen concentrator. You make sure the cap is secure on the Coke bottle then plug the oxygen tubing into the barb fitting on the oxygen concentrator and turn it on. When the Red Neck Reservoir is filled completely, turn off the oxygen concentrator. The Red Neck Reservoir is now ready for use to abort a CH using the method described above. All you need to do is unscrew the Coke bottle cap to inhale the lungful of oxygen then replace the cap. Other than the cost at less than $1, there's one more benefit of this contraption... There is no inhalation resistance. Hope this helps... Take care and please keep us posted. V/R, Batch

You are right about O2 poisoning possibility, But my tank would run for 5H before it ran out. I think that the solution is :Don't use a strap on a mask, hold it to your face.I do it like this.I feel better when I push it against my face. When the pain is gone , I can put on a strap for 15min,when I'm sure I won't fall asleep.