Re: [FRIAM] COVID SaO2 at 7k feet

2021-09-27 Thread Jochen Fromm
Get well soon! If you have cold-like symptoms it would make sense to make a Covid-19 test. Then you have clarity. Mild versions of the disease can look like a cold. Our health minister (who was now voted out at the weekend with his conservative party, thankfully) was tested positive and he had o

Re: [FRIAM] COVID SaO2 at 7k feet

2021-09-27 Thread ⛧ glen
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 hi

Re: [FRIAM] COVID SaO2 at 7k feet

2021-09-27 Thread ⛧ glen
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 obtai

Re: [FRIAM] COVID SaO2 at 7k feet

2021-09-27 Thread thompnickson2
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. Litera

Re: [FRIAM] COVID SaO2 at 7k feet

2021-09-27 Thread Steve Smith
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

Re: [FRIAM] COVID SaO2 at 7k feet

2021-09-27 Thread Marcus Daniels
Incidentally, variations in pulse rate is an indicator used to diagnose premature babies at risk of sepsis. (Actually taking their blood is potentially a potential cause for sepsis.) https://www.nature.com/articles/pr2003429 -Original Message- From: Friam On Behalf Of u?l? ?>$ Sen

Re: [FRIAM] COVID SaO2 at 7k feet

2021-09-27 Thread uǝlƃ ☤ $
What am I struggling with? 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 cor

Re: [FRIAM] COVID SaO2 at 7k feet

2021-09-27 Thread Steve Smith
Maybe helpful (or not)...  Sorry to hear you are struggling with it. A decade ago I had a no good very bad winter of breathing which finally pushed me in to see a Doctor.   Their readings were in the low 70s and would have hospitalized me if I hadn't flat refused (I felt no worse than I had for mo

Re: [FRIAM] COVID SaO2 at 7k feet

2021-09-27 Thread uǝlƃ ☤ $
Ha! I'll have to check with Renee' on her death benefit. Maybe I could retire and brew beer for the rest of my life! But she won't die. Her (younger) sisters like to yap on and on about how Renee's unkillable ... several car accidents ... smoking ... lots of poor decision-making in her youth ...

Re: [FRIAM] COVID SaO2 at 7k feet

2021-09-27 Thread Marcus Daniels
Anemia shows up as a risk factor for death from COVID-19. Just to cheer you up. 😊 -Original Message- From: Friam On Behalf Of u?l? ?>$ Sent: Monday, September 27, 2021 11:29 AM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] COVID SaO2 at 7k feet Of course, "blinking an eye" should be sup

Re: [FRIAM] COVID SaO2 at 7k feet

2021-09-27 Thread uǝlƃ ☤ $
Of course, "blinking an eye" should be suppressed by a professional. E.g. I was anemic during and for a long while after my cancer treatment. But, in context, anemia is irrelevant. Nobody blinked an eye. But for Renee's recent visit, she was also anemic. And much blinking obtained. For an old p

Re: [FRIAM] COVID SaO2 at 7k feet

2021-09-27 Thread thompnickson2
Glen, I can't answer your question directly; however, I regularly run blood O2 levels in the mid 90's, but sometimes as low as 89, and nobody blinks an eye. This has always puzzled me because some things I have read treat anything below 93 as a near-death experience. I move UP to santa fe

[FRIAM] COVID SaO2 at 7k feet

2021-09-27 Thread uǝlƃ ☤ $
So, I've been self-quarantined for 10 days, now, monitoring my SpO2 regularly. I've always run low (~98% or 99%, only reaching 100% with breathing exercises). But while fighting my infection [⛧], I've gone down to 90 or even 89. Renee' says the COVID patients that come to the hospital are runnin