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http://www.clusterheadaches.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl Cluster Headache Help and Support >> Medications, Treatments, Therapies >> Oxygen therapy--exciting "new" treatment http://www.clusterheadaches.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1236231525 Message started by cherylc on Mar 5^th, 2009 at 12:38am

Title: Oxygen therapy--exciting "new" treatment
Post by cherylc on Mar 5^th, 2009 at 12:38am

::) I just read an article in a Canadian magazine called homemakers.com about new treatment for cluster headaches called oxygen therapy. New??? I started using oxygen to abort my clusters 5 years ago when I read about it on this website, and I am sure that many of you have been using it longer than that. A bit behind the times in headache research, don't you think?

At least I got a good chuckle over it.

Title: Re: Oxygen therapy--exciting "new" treatment
Post by Linda_Howell on Mar 5^th, 2009 at 1:04pm

I got a laugh out of that too. I've been using 02 to abort for 22 years now. ;D

Title: Re: Oxygen therapy--exciting "new" treatment
Post by AlienSpaceGuy on Mar 5^th, 2009 at 2:20pm

Bayard T Horton described oxygen treatment for CH in 1943 (that's 66 years ago).

But that's too new to be included in the text book some doctors have inherited from their granddad. ::)

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Title: Re: Oxygen therapy--exciting "new" treatment
Post by TO2TKA on Mar 5^th, 2009 at 3:03pm

Oxygen treatment of headaches was first mentioned in literature in 1939. Mr. Charles E. Rhein, Linde Air Products Co., reported to Dr. Alvarez at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN the successful treatment of severe "migraine" attacks by breathing pure oxygen.

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Title: Re: Oxygen therapy--exciting "new" treatment
Post by Linda_Howell on Mar 5^th, 2009 at 3:45pm

Good one Ueli. ;D ;D ;D

Title: Re: Oxygen therapy--exciting "new" treatment
Post by ski2k on Mar 5^th, 2009 at 4:03pm

Yeah.. it's kinda funny, but VERY scary at the same time. It just goes to show how uninformed the rest of the world is about out little slice of hell we got here.

Adam

Title: Re: Oxygen therapy--exciting "new" treatment
Post by ClusterChuck on Mar 6^th, 2009 at 3:15am

cherylc wrote on Mar 5^th, 2009 at 12:38am:

about new treatment for cluster headaches called oxygen therapy.

WOW!!!

A new treatment?

OXYGEN? How can that POSSIBLY be any good? Heck there is oxygen in the air we breath ... BAH!!! Gotta be hogwash ...

What are you? A snake oil salesperson?

Can't fool ME!

Chuck

(What is scary is that there are people, including doctors, that honestly DO feel the above way!)

Title: Re: Oxygen therapy--exciting "new" treatment
Post by Guiseppi on Mar 6^th, 2009 at 3:47am

But we ARE making progress! [smiley=thumb.gif]

Joe

Title: Re: Oxygen therapy--exciting "new" treatment
Post by Iddy on Mar 6^th, 2009 at 1:06pm

It's cold up here! We spend so much time in our igloos it takes a long time for our important parts to thaw out! Our brains are not the first things to thaw.We have to wait before we can contribute to the acedemic world!It takes time to catch up with the rest of you all. :D :D