Hello all! I am new to this board and have been suffering from CH for >20 years. I have tried many treatments over the years but the only one that has worked consistantly is Imitrex injections. I have found myself in a situation recently that I had never had to contend with: Unemployed, insuranceless and beginning a CH cycle.

My thought is as follows:
It only takes about 2mg to abort my average headache. If a pill contains 100mg of the stuff, couldnt that be dissolved into sterile water and treat up to 50 headaches?

Has anybody ever considered or even tried this?

I do have O2.... It used to work for me but that's changed over the past few years...

Yeah.... They used to tell me 8 ltrs/min but I can get up to 15... It seems to only work if I catch the headache real early now and sometimes it's not effective at all

Crank it up to 25lpm.

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Ask your doc and see what he or she says

Not a bad thought if it could work.I had an idea similar to this

Smoking it like a crack rock

If O2 continues to not be helpful, you can ask your doc for a sample of this med. It's advantage is that it's about $3/dose and, for many of us, as fast acting as Imitrex. (The only restriction is that if you are having several attacks a day you need to discuss total dosing with your doc.) Note that a few people had their clusters permanently stop.
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Headache 2001 Sep;41(8):813-6 

Olanzapine as an Abortive Agent for Cluster Headache.

Rozen TD.

Department of Neurology, Jefferson Headache Center/Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate olanzapine as a cluster headache abortive agent in an open-label trial. BACKGROUND: Cluster headache is the most painful headache syndrome known. There are very few recognized abortive therapies for cluster headache and fewer for patients who have contraindications to vasoconstrictive drugs. METHODS: Olanzapine was given as an abortive agent to five patients with cluster headache in an open-label trial. THE INITIAL OLANZAPINE DOSE WAS 5 MG, AND THE DOSE WAS INCREASED TO 10 MG IF THERE WAS NO PAIN RELIEF. THE DOSAGE WAS DECREASED TO 2.5 MG IF THE 5-MG DOSE WAS EFFECTIVE BUT CAUSED ADVERSE EFFECTS. To be included in the study, each patient had to treat at least two attacks with either an effective dose or the highest tolerated dose. RESULTS: Five patients completed the investigation (four men, one woman; four with chronic cluster, one with episodic cluster). Olanzapine reduced cluster pain by at least 80% in four of five patients, and TWO PATIENTS BECAME HEADACHE-FREE AFTER TAKING THE DRUG. Olanzapine typically alleviated pain within 20 minutes after oral dosing and treatment response was consistent across multiple treated attacks. The only adverse event was sleepiness. CONCLUSIONS: Olanzapine appears to be a good abortive agent for cluster headache. IT ALLEVIATES PAIN QUICKLY AND HAS A CONSISTENT RESPONSE ACROSS MULTIPLE TREATED ATTACKS. IT APPEARS TO WORK IN BOTH EPISODIC AND CHRONIC CLUSTER HEADACHE.

PMID 11576207 PubMed

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Olanzapine has a brand name of "Zyprexa" and is a antipsychotic. Don't be put off by this primary usage. Several of the drugs used to treat CH are cross over applications, that is, drugs approved by the FDA for one purpose which are found to be effective with unrelated conditions--BJ.

My regulator does not go that high... Where can I acquire a new regulator?

Donny M wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2010 at 12:51pm:

Ebay.

In case you haven't figured it out by now, it's pretty unanimous that what you have there is a profoundly bad idea.

You may also want to check out the imitrex tip to get double and even tripple mileage out of your trex.

Shooting up a home brew and risking an embolic stroke doesnt sound like a good idea to me.