How does oxygen help cluster headaches?
“It feels like a burning hot poker being shoved through your eye while an elephant stands on your temple, while someone is punching you in the back of the head and pulling on your hair,” said Justin Ott, 31, when describing the pain of a cluster headache. Share New 15-minute treatment involving oxygen can significantly reduce the pain. Ott has suffered from cluster headaches for 10 years, and was motivated to chronicle the debilitating pain — sometimes called a “suicide headache” — in a documentary film. Doctors estimate only 0.3 percent of the population suffers from cluster headaches, and that men are much more likely to be affected. “From when you first feel it start, and when it comes to full strength, it’s five minutes, maybe,” said Ott, a writer, producer, director and cinematographer from Weehawken, N.J. “Everybody’s different, but if left untreated it can go on for 30 minutes to 60 minutes.” Now, new research suggests that sufferers like Ott can take advantage of a relatively
