CHfather

Agree with the sentiment, but I think you mean, "Mystina, Mystina, gal, where ya been so long?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vzv5KTNU2FU Got to be OLD to remember this one!  :-/Â

ob, Here are some things I know, which are not conclusive. At least one person here (davidj, I think it was) has experimented with kudzu and busting, and in his case the kudzu didn't seem to interfere. And, I once received an email from a doctor who has studied LSA and CH quite extensively, and he said >>I'm unaware of any interaction of kudzu with LSA (doesn't mean there ISN'T one of course).<< I'd take the 10 now, since you're primarily doing it as a test of the effects anyway, and then weigh the kudzu question with more input from people here.

You can find quick links to the articles about oxygen here: http://www.clusterheadaches.com/cb/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1299901790 My suggestion would be to send them to your doctor's office before your visit. Maybe someone will look at them, maybe they won't, but you will have them on notice that you know what you are talking about. (I remember one person who sent them to her doctor's office, and the doctor paid no attention to them, but the nurse practitioner in the office did -- and the nurse practitioner got the O2 for the patient.)

http://ck-wissen.de/ckwiki/images/1/14/IHS_IHC_2009_BOL_Halpern.pdf

Hey, THANKS, spiny!!!!  kaboomski!

You're right, spiny, but I know they're also sold separately (because we got ours in separate packaging from a kindly CBer), and I figure that'd be a lot cheaper than buying an O2ptimask. Also, the O2ptimask one is relatively short . . . I realize now that I'm looking for one with an extension, as illustrated in the ch.com oxygen pages: http://www.clusterheadaches.com/O2/index.html (I would just include the image of it here, but for some reason I can't include images. Or don't know how. I click on the "insert image" icon, and get the , but then I can't put anything in there between the s. Can't use paste (nothing happens) and don't get anything helping me "browse" for the image in my files.)

Do you happen to know where to buy a mouthpiece? I've looked on the internet but can't find anything that I'm confident is the right thing. Thanks.

Check the kaboomski family tree. Also, this from the Urban Dictionary: KABOOMSKI ... Also means awesome, cool, amazing. TJ- That chick looks kaboomski Who knew? http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Kaboomski

much too kind of y'all. if there was an embarrassed emoticon, i'd toss a few in here. i've seen what the beast does and that memory is with me every day. if i can help anyone whack it a few times and send it running, nothing makes me happier. y'all are the superheroes. (heaven knows why i'm y'alling today. must be from talking on the phone to denny a while back.)

We haven't seen kaboom here much lately, but I know she's still hard at work on behalf of ClusterBusters. So, this story caught my eye today (the headline was something like "Kaboom Clears Out City Hall"): A metal pipe with the word “Kaboom,” scrawled across it definitely qualifies as a suspicious item, and yesterday one was discovered at Akron, Ohio’s City Hall at 8:30 a.m. Cue bomb squads, police, fire crews and the K-9 unit and a building evacuation. But chillax — investigations revealed it was the homemade, name-tagged cane of community-minded resident Kaboom, who forgot it after a City Council meeting. It gets better: Three years ago the 65-year-old changed his legal name from the unexciting James Louis Krosner to the alarm-raising Natural Hunka Kaboom. He claims the explosive name is just a shortened version of Polish family name Kaboomski. . .

Redd, it does look to me like the largest cylinder that comes with this system is an M9. That's the same diameter as an E tank, and a little less than half the height. From what I read, it would hold only about a third as much O2 as an E tank -- 8.7 cubic feet vs. 24, according to http://mercurymed.com/catalogs/BDR_TechnicalInformation.pdf (An M tank holds 125 cubic feet.) And it takes more than two hours to fill an M9 tank, so if it could be used to fill an E tank, that would take close to 6 hours. (I have heard that the O2 created by a concentrator is less "pure" O2 than the O2 a cylinder holds -- containing some "room air," or something.) Maybe someone with sharper eyes and a sharper mind will see something here that I'm missing.

Ting! I was just discussing with another CB member how much we miss you! Such an honor to know you.

RC prep: http://www.clusterheadaches.com/cb/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1290128974 I wouldn't recommend relying on seeds that have been in the freezer for a year. They might work, but why take the chance -- they're not that expensive. Jeff has said he's doing so experiments on the life of frozen seeds. No one knows what the lowest effective dose is likely to be. Could be as low as 10 good seeds. But at 30 you are virtually guaranteed to have no psychedelic effects, and certainly nothing to be anxious about, and (in my opinion) you'd almost certainly get enough LSA. Once you've taken 30 and experienced nothing psychedelic, you might want to go higher. Energy drinks, and also ginger tea, help a lot of people with the shadows.

Thanks. I have been wondering. Glad you're out of cycle!

I happened to meet a guy the other day who works with Dr. Andrew Weil. Weil is recognized, I think, as one of the top experts on nutrition and supplements. This guy was telling me that he and Weil are convinced that chewable melatonin is far more effective than melatonin tablets. I have to admit that I didn't have the chance to ask him why (absorbability, maybe -- I know Weil used to recommend putting the tablets under your tongue and letting them dissolve). But he was quite emphatic about it. He specifically mentioned, and said he favored, the kind sold at Trader Joe's under the "Trader Darwin's" brand, which is peppermint flavored. I see there are many brands available on the internet. I did a quick search here and at ch.com, and it seems there isn't much discussion about chewable melatonin, so I thought I'd pass this along.

Mine, actually. I also emailed it to them, but -- surprise! -- got no response.

Was anything hopeful said about BOL at the conference? Thanks.

WHERE are the pictures, doggone it? We have waited long enough!

Great news, ob1! I make an observation: There was a time, maybe about a year ago, just after the D3 regimen was reported and people were getting excellent results, that we mentioned to every new person here that they might want to consider the D3. Then, for a variety of reasons, we stopped doing that, even though the anti-inflammatory D3 approach continues to help people. I'm gonna start mentioning it again. For anyone reading this who hasn't been exposed to the D3 "treatment," here's a link: http://www.clusterheadaches.com/cb/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1314134804

fingers crossed, cap.

I'm puzzled by the "methods and kits" story, since it seems to be a story from 8/31/2012 reporting that Halpern and others filed a patent application for BOL as a cluster headache treatment 16 months earlier, in May, 2011. We knew of that patent application . . . I'm just trying to figure out what the "news" is here (not criticizing you for posting it, shocked -- just wondering whether there's something going on here that escapes me). This story is of interest to me because I have had the sense that this patent is a double-edge sword that so far has cut only in one direction. That is, it enabled the formation of Entheogen Corp to try to make BOL available as an approved pharmaceutical; and at the same time it seems to me that it has deprived some people with CH of the possibility of somehow lawfully getting BOL for themselves. (Whenever this subject comes up, it is suggested that getting BOL for oneself is difficult and expensive. I know that. Doesn't change my point.)

hopefully someone is going to set this straight. i can only add that i looked up the only "oxygen regulator" that's sold at harbor freight (a kind of regulator many CH people use) and it's $34.99 and in the product specs it says the inlet thread is "CGA 540." so the $130 and the e-4 aren't seeming right to me, as i say. getting the right regulator is of course necessary, but if they're selling you a tank that needs a $130 regulator with an unfamiliar cga #, then the bigger concern is that it's not O2, which would be a very bad thing! sure hoping we can get you through this quick and onto some oxygen to help with what you're going through!

t-s, i am not an expert. others here are. i do know that the typical connections for O2 tanks are CGA 540 for larger tanks and CGA 870 for smaller ones. i think an e-4 connection is for other gases (though it might work for O2); i have never read of anyone here or at ch.com having an e-4 connection. but i could be wrong. like i say, i'm no expert, but this sounds off to me. sorry if i'm making it complicated for no good reason. hopefully, i'm barking up a wrong tree here, which has been known to happen more than once. your list of what you need is correct. given what spiny says, maybe you don't want to get a regulator through ebay, and in any event you need to know what kind of connection it is before you buy--large tanks and small tanks use different regulators if you do decide to look around at ebay, you'll just go to www.ebay.com and type whatever you're looking for into the search bar "cga e-4" turns up a bunch, some of which are said to be new, as does "cga 540" and "cga 870." you want a flow rate that goes up to at least 15 lpm, and most people will tell you that 25 or more is worth the extra money. i think the e-4 will not be calibrated in lpm, but if it's the right regulator, you probably can turn the valve open to get the flow you need. here are some other places for regulators: http://www.lifegas.com/gas_devices_and_therapies/special_oxygen_needs.asp http://madamedical.com/ As spiny says, the strongly preferred mask is the O2ptimask: http://www.clusterheadaches.com/khxc/ You could order a mask right away. You can find standard non-rebreather masks at many internet locations (and at ebay). Enter the words “non-rebreather mask” into a search engine to find suppliers. Note that these masks are quite inexpensive, so if you see a price quoted of more than a couple of dollars, it is probably for a case of masks, not just for one. And here's some information that blueballs posted at another thread, which is part of why I wonder whether that E-4 connection is for something other than straight O2: >>>Many tanks and gasses are used for welding. Argon, Co2,helium,ect,ect...what you need is 02 usually used for gas cutting operations..ie, cutting metal plates into sub parts for assembly with a welding machine using welding gasses. Specifically oxygen used in cutting operations are 100% 02, where welidng gasses are inhert gasses used in combination to remove 02 from the welding arc. Do not use inhert welding gasses. 02 is used as an oxidizer for aceteylene gas in the cutting torch as well as compressed air to blow away the molten metal during the cutting process. If your welding friend has a cutting torch with 2 tanks, one 02 and the other aceytlene,then the 02 tank for that is a viable replacement for medical 02. Again do not use inhert welding gasses, they will suffocate you. In the US a standard color code of green indicates oxygen. I love green tanks...lol Wink Oxygen is also stamped on the formed neck at the top of the tank. Shocked As a long time welder and welding inspector I have used 02 on many jobsites and shops right out of the cutting torch. I have used industrial 02 over many years only to find the same relief I get from medical 02. Maybe what confused you was the term welding oxygen..its not used for welding....its used for cutting metal for welding operations... Cool Your friend's tank is likely a 75/25 argon/co2. Typical in welding ferrous metals with mild steel wire. hope this clears that up.<<<

Thanks for the reminder, Bob. My daughter uses a mouthpiece, in part because the standard mask is too big for her face, and in part because she finds the mouthpiece less claustrophic than the mask.

D3: http://www.clusterheadaches.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1324046404