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Are lower SpO2 and fast heart rate asthma symptoms?
MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: Jul 6 8:18am | Replies (41)Comment receiving replies
Thank you Irene for sharing your and your husband's experience. As patients we give ourselves over to the medical staff. We hope we are lucky to have a good, innate, hardworking, and intelligent doctor who cares! It is tough. Sometimes my heart beat is so fast it makes me uncomfortable. It is the second time it has happened to me, I hope I will get to the bottom of it.
Take care!
Ling
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Here's my heart rate update since yesterday. The dr. said take doxycycline 100 mg 2 x a day and 20 mg prednisone for a few days. I started yesterday evening with the doxy and at 7 am with the prednisone.. By 1 or 2 pm my heart rate was way back down to almost normal range for me and I was breathing a little better. My HR dropped from 90s to mid 70s when sitting around. I think the cause is the prednisone which will lower heart rate. It's a bit soon for the antibiotics to have kicked in I'm guessing. I hope this lasts! I haven't used rescue inhaler today. (Because of my autoimmune disease I normally take prednisone daily but only a small dose of 5mg and have been for years and I am still alive!)