Glen, I have never been able to get my heart rate up that high for any purpose. Another individual difference.
In January of this year I was felled by a virus (?) which had no symptoms other than that I went to bed and didn't get up for 4 days. Not even a fever. Not flu, not covid. Literally, I slept 18 hours a day. A big yawner for my doctors. Assuming they had lost their mind and were killing me with neglect, we called a doctor we knew in California for an explanation of their attitude. Her answer: "At any one time there are 2-300 viruses floating around in the population, each one with its own pattern of symptoms or lack thereof. Feed fluids, take ibuproven and wait." I would love to know what Renee thinks of that answer. N Nick Thompson thompnicks...@gmail.com https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ -----Original Message----- From: Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> On Behalf Of Steve Smith Sent: Monday, September 27, 2021 9:05 PM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] COVID SaO2 at 7k feet On 9/27/21 4:11 PM, uǝlƃ ☤>$ wrote: > What am I struggling with? "But while fighting my infection" I took this to mean you were "struggling" with an infection. I understand/appreciate that your SPO2 numbers weren't necessarily causing you any symptoms... I assume you were measuring them for some reason though? Curiousity I get... I used mine as crude biofeedback to (re)learn how to breath properly, but most of the time I was taking readings out of curiosity... trying to understand correlations between what felt like a good, hard measure (SPO2) and various activities and symptoms. > Thanks for the stories about SpO2. They nicely demonstrate that variation is > normal. To be clear, when I talk about SpO2, I'm not talking about symptoms > at all. I'm simply talking about the number that comes from the little > machine. I've never had any symptoms that correlate with a low SpO2 > measurement. And I think your (and Nick's) stories indicate that there's > little, if any, correlation between the two (symptoms and low SpO2). I'd say that the effects of low SPO2 are less obvious (to a point) than one would imagine... I can't say that when I was down in the 70s, there was no correlation with my fatigue, chills, blue lips and fingernails, etc... > However, what was interesting to me during this very normal cold was my > elevated heart rate. Even though I quit running seriously about 5 years ago, > my resting heart rate is ~63. I've never really monitored it through other > infections. But because I happen to have that number along with SpO2, now, I > noticed that at the nadir/height of the infection, my resting heart rate was > ~100 or ~90 bpm. It's about 80 now, on day 10 since symptoms started. It just > never crossed my mind that infections like the rhino would raise your heart > rate. But I guess it's common. One might guess that low SPO2 might raise your heart rate to deliver the same amount of O2 per unit time? .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
