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if you are used to the large "m" or "h" tanks, you can get smaller, relatively portable "e" tanks for car/office. if you find yourself breathing deeply and then having to wait for the bag to refill before you can inhale again, you need a higher-flow regulator. you might also want to look at the very different O2 strategy recommended by oxygen expert Batch. I can't link you to it, but if you put the phrase "red neck" into the search bar at the upper right side of the page here, it will take you to the thread where it is described. be sure to look at that post about "extending imitrex," too. it is rare for people to need more than 2, or at most 3, mg per injection.

John, Pebbles, You raise an interesting point. I've realized over the last few months, that ALL of my CH triggers I've known about for years. Those have apparently been causing subtle but very present negative impact to my life when I'm not in cycle. I've started realizing most (if not all) of the aches, pains, irritations, stomach issues etc etc etc. Even though they are mild, that I've had off an on my entire life all seem to be related to one food or another. The one (or could be two), commonalities of all my food triggers is they all contain yeast and/or tyramines (alcohol, chocolate, yogurt, fermented cheese, bbq sauce, preserved meats etc etc). I found by chance a few months ago that if I went a few days of not eating anything with yeast or tyramines in it, that ALL of my body symptoms would go away.. (ALL). I've been experimenting with different foods for a few months now, and everything I'm finding comes back to one or both of those things present in foods I eat. An hour to 12 hours later I get pain, irritation or something bad with my body... Quite interesting, and I'd speculate that we all have similar allergies, but are only VERY mild when not in cycle. J

I think the same question can be extended to why is alcohol a trigger in cycle and not out of cycle. In fact why are in cycle triggers not triggers out of cycle. It speaks to our lack of understanding what is actually going on. Somewhere deep inside our neurophysiology something short circuits or gets out of whack. Whether this occurs due to an anatomic aberration, neurophysiologic hiccup or genetically passed on screwed up programming is yet to be determined. This is especially true for episodics who generally follow a predictable pattern. Something in the hypothalamus or nerve and vascular plexuses leading to it become susceptible to the trigger. Folks would likely still get clusters without the trigger but probably not as frequently. There are a lot of different factors that can contribute to the clusters it will be interesting to see if in our lifetimes a single mechanism of action is proven. The great work folks on this board do with presenting case studies of what works and what doesnt, reporting reliable triggers and treatments will provide fuel for researchers who can test hypotheses' and get a consensus on WTF is going on in our heads.