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Here's hoping you are both in better health very soon Denny. We will miss you!

Hello Lily, If possible you must give oxygen a try. I am one of those rare cases where the very serious migraine w/o aura that I am suffering from since a child has gradually morphed into CH over the last 8 years but with still some typical migraine characteristics (like every attack takes 12 hours to gradually build up to its maximum, then pull back to 50 % of the pain for a few hours and then increases again to maximum and so on). When at maximum I have all the typical CH symptoms but honestly I have never thought of CH until I visited a migraine/CH specialist neurologist. He diagnosed it as CH and prescribed me oxygen. It has really been a lifesaver for me and it helped me cut down the triptans to a very minimum. If I would not have gone to him, I would never have known that oxygen actually worked for me ! However, to get through the worst periods I take 120 mg veparamil which helps a lot as well. If you work with oxygen, you better take the habit to act fast. From the smallest onset of sensation you feel, run to the oxygen bottle and breath in/out for 15 min (15 l/min) as deep and as fast as you can. Its a laborious process ! After 15 min you should feel lightheaded and the affected side of the head should feel very relaxed and "open" and the sensation of pressure on the temple and behind the eye should be gone. That means it has worked. If you try it a few times and after 15 min there is no change and the migraine still comes through then oxygen will probably not work which is not a shame. At least from what I read about it, hyperbaric oxygen therapy is more suited for migraine and normobaric seems only to work for some migraine patients where some CH characteristics are already present. All the best ! siegfried