>>11616496So, this guy again. My symptoms seem to all be falling off, only have some mild chest pain and a mild cough lately, hopefully it stays gone but I don't have a huge amount of faith that it will.
I finally got a home pulse oximeter yesterday afternoon. I put it on a couple times throughout the night, and not really surprising I'm not having trouble breathing and it reads 98-99%. I try holding my breath intentionally, it tanks to ~85% before I breathe again, seems to respond to what it should.
I go to bed last night, and whatever I'm dealing with is always worse in bed, something about laying flat makes things worse, and if I just breathe normally in bed it drops to 93 to 96%. If I don't make myself breathe abnormally, and just glance at it every couple minutes, it's always in that range. I can make it go back to 98% by taking huge, deep breaths, but keeping it at that level takes a lot of effort while laying down. And if I sit upright again, it goes back to 98% immediately with no effort.
Is this normal? Are lungs just shit at being horizontal? Or is this potentially meaningful info? I do feel quite a bit better, I'm definitely in the recovering side of the cycle, so my symptoms are quite mild right now, but I don't know if this is an actual thing or if this is just what happens when you give hypochondriacs access to sophisticated home medical equipment on the cheap.
