howdi all. a suggestion if i may

[AllaN01Bear]

during covid one of my sisters gave me a pulse oxometer . citing that if your intake of room air is low , u may have covid, h0wever i have afib and its associated family members ( rappid heart rate , heart flutter and or slow heart rate ) this little device has been a god send . waking up in the middle of the night and feeling wierd , i grab itt . have it w me at all times . thanks for listening.

[LuckyCharms]

1. I got one during Covid...

It still sits on my desk, and I check it once in awhile.

I'm usually at 98% to 100%, so it is reassuring.

I mainly use it to cheek my heart rate, which runs way low...40s and 50s.

My wife uses it to check on her AFIB.

They're good things to have, if only for peace of mind.

[AllaN01Bear]

2. i regard it as my tachometer as in a car. and yes it is a good peice of mind gear.

[jmbar2]

4. What does it show when she has AFIB?

[LuckyCharms]

6. Her resting heart rate goes high...in the 150s. n/t

[gab13by13]

3. Go get an ablation,

A had a-fib off and on for 8 years, found a great doctor, he froze my bad electrical signal, that was 6 years ago, I'm 78 YO.

[AllaN01Bear]

5. failedd .

in fact i had cousins who were cardiologists and they stopped recomending them . so a question to u is , how much of my heart muscle should the drs scrape off before it starts functioning again. a friends bro was going in for one and the docs then were debating to give the bro a pace maker . ablations for some isnt a cure all. i do know that in the 3d year out failure rate is 100%

[gab13by13]

7. UPMC, the doctor who wrote the book on ablations

Sandeep Kumar Jain. He didn't do the laser job on me, he simply froze the bad electrical signal because it is more penetrating.

Out-patient

He laid out a game plan for me.

1. freeze the bad signal - it worked, stopped at plan 1.
2. burn out the bad signal
3. New prescription drug is on the market with less side effects than previous drugs.
4. pacemaker and defib implants.

I live in rural Pa. and the hospital there has a doctor come in 1 day a week to do ablations, I said, no thank you. I went to Pittsburgh, The doctor I went to has a 75% success rate, maybe better than that now after 6 years.

[Wounded Bear]

8. Yeah, I have one of those fingertip oximeters...

Got it around the pandemic era. I take my vitals several times a week including weight, blood pressure, blood sugar, temp, and 02 level. Generally my 02 floats around 98-100% with my cheapie instrument. Low 02 was one of the symptoms of covid, so between that and a covid test, it gets me more confidence through the few cold/flu incidents I've had in recent years.