Her response was similar. But *I* would have gotten you out of bed and made you walk around the block every day. Bed rest doesn't seem healthy to this insomniac.
On September 27, 2021 6:13:34 PM PDT, thompnicks...@gmail.com wrote: >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? -- 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/
