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  1. My suggestions . . . . If you can, I would start with oxygen. If it works, you have a good, side-effect-free way of stopping your bad attacks, and you also have a pretty reliable indicator that what you have is CH. (O2 will sometimes help people with migraine or HC, but usually doesn't.) Sometimes you have to give O2 a couple of tries, but you should be able to tell pretty quickly whether it's helping. You can still use your triptan if O2 doesn't work, and you can request a more effective triptan (injected or nasal) to stop attacks more quickly. You can also start the D3 regimen, since it isn't contraindicated with other things. If your doctor is willing to support your discovery process, you could do an Indomethacin test at the same time as O2 and D3. Since Indo is a preventive for HC (and some other "atypical" pain syndromes), it's not going to effect what you learn from using the O2 as an abortive, and its impact should be pretty quick, whereas it usually takes a while for the D3 to get to a high enough level to substantially prevent attacks. If you are going to request Indomethacin, I would suggest reading up on dosage (google Indomethacin and or HC). Some reports say that Indo works within a few days, but (as I remember it), others suggest you need to give it a couple of weeks to be sure, starting with a lower dosage and going up as tolerated. As you might have read, Indo is hard on the guts (for some people), so it is often recommended that it be taken with a med that protects the stomach, such as prevacid or nexium.
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  2. Wishing you the best. Please do report, partly because we'd love to hear that you are doing better, and partly because every report makes a big contribution to our knowledge base.
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  3. Thank you everyone. I will check all this and report in a couple months.
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