Ah, I see. No,this infection is run of the mill. Just snort some salt water and wait it out. I monitored my SpO2 as a signal whether to get a covid test. Since it never dropped very low, I had no fever, no loss of smell/taste, etc., I didn't bother to get a covid test. Had any one of those obtained, I would have gotten a pcr.
Thanks for the idea that low SpO2 might require more heartbeats. I hadn't thought of that either. On September 27, 2021 6:05:23 PM PDT, Steve Smith <sasm...@swcp.com> wrote: > >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? > > -- glen ⛧ .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . 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/
