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anyone have shortness of breath when on oxygen and walking
COPD: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease | Last Active: Feb 10 2:45pm | Replies (61)Comment receiving replies
My prescription is in continuous flow liters, portable concentrators are usually pulse flow which is not the same thing. I set the pulse flow higher than the continuous flow to get a similar benefit.
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I had an inogen portable that never gave me enough oxygen. I was coming back from the shopping trip with sore muscles and headache . No matter how you set machines use an Oximeter to check your oxygen level. You will be surprised . If you turn a portable concentrator to its highest setting it will include more outside air to the “pulsed” action . Those settings on it are not ltrs. They are just settings on a knob. No portable oxygen concentrator can pulse deliver more than 3 ltrs. If you need more get a tank with a regulator and be nourished .
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Is that an okay thing to do? I'll check with my dr. I remember a nurse telling me not to do that but don't remember why.