Oximeter says 75
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Or their pulse Ox is a POS. The online reviews for most of them are terrible. My ER nurse friend told me not to bother buying one because the retail ones are all so terrible. |
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If you have cold hands and the oxymeter was stored in room temperature
it can read 90 or less.. even if your actual reading is 95 per few other oxymeters that are alredy warmed up. If you are scared and not breathing normally it can also show lower oxygen. Best testing policy is: 1. Make sure your hands are warm: run the warm water for few minutes like hand washing thingy.. 2. Run few dry run tests on all other fingers then index fingers then you intend to do final reading first to warm up the oxymeter. 3. Breath deeply and slowly and steadily before the reading, best yet make few yoga type breathing for a while - this can relax you from anxiety of testing to normal testing mode and normal oxygen level so breath through your nose for 6 seconds or so.. hold breath as long as you can and then breath our through your mouth through whistling hole as slow and long as you can about 8 sec or more. 4. Relax and breath normally THROUGH the testing time as many people simply entirely cease breathing during testing. VERY BAD thing to do. TEST yourself MANY times within half hour or hour and only then you will know what you are. Breath conciously between tests but without any excess. Deeper breathing usually results in higher oxygen reading though. SIDE NOTE: Not many people know that you can get DIFFERENT reading from different fingers of the same hand, and even different reading between the index finger of each hand that pro use usually to test your oxygen level. Left index finger might show different result then right. There have been tests done on that. While not usually huge difference it might be enough to send you for no apparent reason into panic mode so the higher reading is said to be the one you should go by. So test both of your index fingers not just one. Just to be sure. But according to the research, right thumb and index finger is the "it". Don't believe me about different fingers reading?  so here is to you:
Comparison of SpO2 values from different fingers of the hands Pulse oximetry is a frequently used tool in anesthesia practice. Gives valuable information about arterial oxygen content, tissue perfusion and heart beat rate. In this study we aimed to provide the comparison of peripheral capillary hemoglobin oxygen saturation (SpO2) values among every finger of the two hands. Thirty-seven healthy volunteers from operative room stuffs between the ages of 18–30 years were enrolled in the study. They were monitored after 5 min of rest. After their non invasive blood pressure, heart rate, fasting time and body temperature were measured, SpO2 values were obtained from every finger and each of two hands fingers with the same pulse oximetry. All the SpO2 values were obtained after at least 1 min of measurement period. A total of 370 SpO2 measurements from 37 volunteers were obtained. The highest average SpO2 value was measured from right middle finger (98.2 % ± 1.2) and it was statistically significant when compared with right little finger and left middle finger. The second highest average SpO2 value was measured from right thumb and it was statistically significant only when compared with left middle finger (the finger with the lowest average SpO2 value) (p < 0.05). SpO2 measurement from the fingers of the both hands with the pulse oximetry, the right middle finger and right thumb have statistically significant higher value when compared with left middle finger in right-hand dominant volunteers. We assume that right middle finger and right thumb have the most accurate value that reflects the arterial oxygen saturation. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4627972/ |
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80 is also too low. Even 90 or 91 is too low. Go to the hospital. Oxygen deprivation is a real thing in COVID and the patients do not realize it. They are not struggling to breathe...it is just that their body is starved for oxygen without any discomfort.
You are basically dying and I hope you rush to the hospital. |