Posted by gary g on January 22, 1999 at 14:13:01:
In Reply to: Re: don't forget oxygen ! posted by Tortuga on January 22, 1999 at 12:08:56:
Hi tortuga, how's it going ? dry ?
sorry - couldn't resist
Seriously -
read your post re: oxygen triggering CH attacks a while back - valuable information, but may be "the exception that proves the rule"
would suggest:
with CH, one or two incidents of anything aren't conclusive - way too many variables to single out a cause/effect without MANY repeats (a big part of science is that a hypothesis is only valid if the experiments documenting it are repeatable with consistently like results)
even if O2 DID trigger attacks for you, the OVERWHELMING experience described in the msg bd through fall & early winter was NEARLY unanimous -
if you read studies of any medications, etc, you'll see that the BEST correlations are still far from 100%
we all (often me the most) tend to look at our own case as being the definition of the disease -
there is incredible variation in the specific descriptions of individual cases - the difference between chronic and episodic alone is a HUGE variance, but fully contained in CH diagnosis