Symptoms
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wrote on 22 Oct 2020, 10:27 last edited by
I’m surprised you have one at all.
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wrote on 22 Oct 2020, 10:29 last edited by
Did you buy it used? Maybe it’s left over from Revolutionary France and is using decimal time.
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wrote on 22 Oct 2020, 10:31 last edited by
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.
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wrote on 22 Oct 2020, 10:46 last edited by
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.
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wrote on 22 Oct 2020, 10:49 last edited by 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.
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wrote on 22 Oct 2020, 11:18 last edited by
Yeah marathon runners have famously low heart rates.
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wrote on 22 Oct 2020, 11:33 last edited by
We're now two weeks into this:
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wrote on 22 Oct 2020, 11:41 last edited by
Prayers for her recovery...
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wrote on 22 Oct 2020, 11:42 last edited by
Oh man. I’m sorry George.
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wrote on 22 Oct 2020, 11:59 last edited by
Uh, that doesn't sound good.
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wrote on 22 Oct 2020, 12:04 last edited by
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wrote on 22 Oct 2020, 12:12 last edited by
I'm sorry, George. This must be very worrying for you.
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wrote on 22 Oct 2020, 12:15 last edited by
Ugh. I’m sorry that she’s had to suffer through this.
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wrote on 22 Oct 2020, 12:20 last edited by
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.
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wrote on 22 Oct 2020, 13:36 last edited by
Two weeks. Shit, that's a long time to be putting up with this. Very best wishes.
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wrote on 22 Oct 2020, 14:34 last edited by
Hope things start to take a turn for the better and soon.
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wrote on 22 Oct 2020, 14:44 last edited by
(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.
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wrote on 22 Oct 2020, 14:46 last edited by
Sorry to hear George. Two people I know were experiencing same as I recall their real time updates. Obviously the concern is the trajectory.
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wrote on 22 Oct 2020, 15:03 last edited by
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.