[FRIAM] COVID SaO2 at 7k feet

[⛧ 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 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 <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:
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>On 9/27/21 4:11 PM, uǝlƃ ☤>$ wrote:
>> What am I struggling with?
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> "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.
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>>  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?
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glen ⛧