The other view of Oxygen
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Wed, 02/12/2015 - 15:29
The other view of Oxygen
Now we know how oxygen helps, but could poor supply of oxygen be causing clusters too.
There has been a lot in the press this week linking asthma and migraine.
I was wondering if poor oxygen supply while sleeping causing night clusters any snorers? or sleep aponea?
And asthma people like myself have poor oxygen readings on the finger test [last one was 91]
airtravel sets mine off too could this be reduced oxygen
Then there are rumors heavy smokers are more prone to clusters.
Has any research looked at this side of oxygen in the past.
my old gp used to say living near heathrow there is a massive increase in people suffering asthma because of the pollution could that be a factor in clusters.
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It could well be that lack of Oxygen does not help Clusters.
I find aircraft and air conditioned trains with no windows bring it it on during a bout.
Stuffy rooms are also a problem for me.
When I go running an attack allmost always follows, I put it down to the body getting hot and shortage of breath when I push it.
Conversely a good walk in the fresh air without getting hot keeps them away as does skiing all day. The latter is interesting since there is less oxygen at altitude. However being in the fresh air all day and the blood circulating faster carrying oxygen must more than compensate.
John
Vasodialation.
CH is linked to the complex signalling involved with arteries widening.
100% high-flow oxygen and triptans are vasoconstrictors.
Temperature affects many sufferers during bout. Some are adversely affected by heat, some by the cold.
Air conditioning is also a two way thing, I've personally had an air conditioned environment abort an attack, but in some sufferers it's a trigger.
Strong smells, alcohols and solvents are also triggers. In case you hadn't noticed.
Smoking. This has been raised a lot in conversation. There was a paper released showing nicotine phase-advances the supra chiasmatic nuclei. It is possible smokers unknowingly use this to nudge the body clock past the time CH fires up. But smoking is the generic bad boy that causes every bad occurrence, and will be blamed for the end of civilisation when that comes about.