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Breathless with exercise

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@janet23

sgomez63,

I was formally diagnosed with hypoxia (low blood oxygen) in 2021 one year after extensive pulmonary and cardiac testing could not find a cause for my SOB, fatigue, and near passing out in stores

I started using an oximeter to keep track of my oxygen levels at home. My oxygen level was 95% sitting, but would drop to the low 80's and high 70's with exertion. This dramatic change occurred after a mild case of Covid and the Covid shots in 2020 and 2021.

My sleep medicine doctor ordered a repeat sleep study and it documented the drops to 72% and I was put on home oxygen. Prior to this study the doctors kept telling me I had a defective oximeter, which was not the case.

Are you checking your blood oxygen level at home throughout the day? Do you see drops below 90%.

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there is a test called FEV1 which measures
the air that you can exhale in 1sec.
There are tables,calculators online
which tell you, what is the average
for your height and age

I would think that measuring the number of breaths per minute is also a useful marker, but apparently
doctors are not doing this.

Some here also reported an increased
heart-frequency with breathing more