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ER CARD, While I was on the Board of Directors at O.U.C.H., we developed a Medical Alert Card for Oxygen Therapy for CHers who had to go to the ER with bad CH. The document is signed by the CHer's neurologist or PCP explaining the bearer suffers from Cluster Headache and needs oxygen therapy as a CH abortive at 15 to 25 liters/minute STAT! The thinking behind this card was that it would help eliminate most of the Stump the Dummy questions frequently asked by ER receptionists and get the CHer oxygen as an abortive as fast as possible. Take care, V/R, Batch The quality of this image is not that good. Unfortunately, this web portal limits attachments fo 23 KB and that's not enough for the original pdf document. Take care, V/R, Batch

At the top of each page there is an envelope icon. Click on that and then type xxx in the "To" line.

I'm not an expert on the D at all but my last lab I was pretty high as well (320). @xxx is the resource for the D on here and I'm sure he could point you in the rt direction. I am assuming you are taking all the co-factors?

As Pebbles' says, if you get a correct diagnosis or they take their word for it that you have CH, then you could suggest something like, "Please check with Up-To-Date or Medscape or whatever service you use, which will tell you that subcutaneous sumatriptan or high-flow oxygen with a non-rebreather mask are the best acute treatments." (Of course, if you've been having an attack long enough that it's still going on after you've gone to the ER and waited to be seen, oxygen might not be very helpful.) Alternatively, you could print out and carry with you a recent article about treatment of CH, such as this one -- https://pn.bmj.com/content/19/6/521 -- or the Word doc you get from googling [goadsby "treatment of cluster headache"].