Symptoms

[Klaus]

@George-K said in Symptoms:

(In the old days, a pulse ox was "cutting edge." Now, you can get one on Amazon for less that $40.)

You talked me into getting one. Why the heck is my pulse only around 40?

[jon-nyc]

I’m surprised you have one at all.

[jon-nyc]

Did you buy it used? Maybe it’s left over from Revolutionary France and is using decimal time.

[Klaus]

No, it's new, and I checked manually that the pulse readings are indeed accurate. If I understood the Wikipedia article on bradycardia correctly, the worst that can happen is instant death, so I'm not very worried.

[Jolly]

I'd put faith in one of the doc's answers, but I have seen guys who did a ton of cardio exercise, have pretty low resting pulse rates.

[Doctor Phibes]

Klaus, it could be the cycling - mine came down from 60 to 45, although it's a bit higher now. When I had my medical, the nurse asked whether I ran or cycled.

[jon-nyc]

Yeah marathon runners have famously low heart rates.

[George K]

We're now two weeks into this:

[Jolly]

Prayers for her recovery...

[jon-nyc]

Oh man. I’m sorry George.

[Klaus]

Uh, that doesn't sound good.

[George K]

[Doctor Phibes]

I'm sorry, George. This must be very worrying for you.

[LuFins Dad]

Ugh. I’m sorry that she’s had to suffer through this.

[Mik]

Not great news.

We just got news that my daughter may have been exposed. One of her classmates is symptomatic and she and a few others had a cocktail hour with her the other night. They were pretty distanced, but it was a couple hours. She was random tested by the university and negative the other day, but she's scheduled for another test next week.

[Aqua Letifer]

Two weeks. Shit, that's a long time to be putting up with this. Very best wishes.

[mark]

Hope things start to take a turn for the better and soon.

[Loki]

@Klaus said in Symptoms:

@George-K said in Symptoms:

(In the old days, a pulse ox was "cutting edge." Now, you can get one on Amazon for less that $40.)

You talked me into getting one. Why the heck is my pulse only around 40?

Out of curiosity do you ever get dizzy when you stand up? I have orthostatic hypotension. If your heart rate is 42 while standing or even sitting after moving around that is pretty amazing.

[Loki]

Sorry to hear George. Two people I know were experiencing same as I recall their real time updates. Obviously the concern is the trajectory.

[brenda]

George, I'm so sorry she's still struggling with this. Her posts sound so much like my experience last February. It's almost identical. The coughing will create significant pain, because it's usually a very hard cough, almost gut wrenching. That could be adding to her pain issues. That cough ... it can hurt like heck.

I hope she gets her chest checked. I wish I had done that, but I was so miserable that I didn't want to go anywhere, and COVID wasn't really talked about yet then. If she's able to go, she should. If she's not able, then she really should.

She may have an inhaler prescribed, and it may seem like too little of a product to combat this, until after a few days of use. If that's what is prescribed, encourage her to at least try it. I was very skeptical, but it helped.