Last two eve's difficulty breathing....

Harkdon: My husband smoked and had lung problems, similar symptoms (ie trouble breathing, walking and going up a grade and stairs). He was referred to a Pulmonologist (lung specialist) and was given [breathing exercises and method to manage stairs. He was able to continue his favourite exercise (golf) and the stairs were manageable.
 
hawkdon said:
Both wed ev and thurs eve I went into what I call "panic" breathing, for some reason I had a very difficult time drawing in a breath...I would use my breath inhaler with mixed results..last eve was the worst of two nites...I stayed awake, I guess out of fear,
and it took a long time to get my breathing down to normal....I am COPD and heart
condition, but don't know what caused this episodes....took a covid test this morning
(home style) and it was inconclusive.....a couple times last eve I came close to calling
911 and getting a ride to E.R. but didn't do it....My personal doc is too busy to see
me today, so we will see what the weekend brings.....the joys of aging !!!o_O
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I couldn't breathe one morning, and we did call an ambulance. 6 days in hospital and they sent me home with an oxygen concentrator, and all the paraphilia. The difference is that none of that cost us a penny. Covered by our universal healthcare, and don't think our taxes are higher,they aren't. We choose to spend our taxes differently.

Yes, I have COPD and did have a silent heart attack.
 
win231 said:
I also had some chest/back pain for 2 days, which is gone now. It may be caused by the coughing. I already had the oximeter last year & it always read 95 - 99.
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The ER doctor that spent a good part of a day with me explained that the chest pain was caused by the infection reaching the lining of my lungs. My oxygen held up, never below 90, and in a couple of days I tested OK. Now my wife and I are completely recovered, O2 95-99. Vaccination and boosting didn’t completely prevent infection, but it may be the reason we are still here. For those who are dubious - Get Vaccinated!
 
hawkdon said:
Both wed ev and thurs eve I went into what I call "panic" breathing, for some reason I had a very difficult time drawing in a breath. I would use my breath inhaler with mixed results..last eve was the worst of two nites. I stayed awake, I guess out of fear, and it took a long time to get my breathing down to normal.
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That sounds like you're running out of oxygen at the cellular level because you're breathing too much.
Keeping a certain amount of CO2 in the cells is important to be able to exchange with oxygen in the bloodstream.
Breathing too much washes all the CO2 out of the cells, preventing the necessary exchange of O2 & CO2 at the cellular level.

Hyperventilation, i.e. breathing too much, is not a good thing to do, as it reduces this vital exchange.
Even if the O2 blood level was at 99%, breathing too much could wash out all the necessary carbon dioxide from the cells.

Personally I had a hard time breathing from birth, so much that my Mom was afraid that I'd die in her arms.
Around the age of 5 I had this idea that compressing the tubules in my lungs would compress whatever was in there,
allowing me to breathe more easily when breathing normally. I tried this and it worked! I never had asthma again from age 5.

From that point I would keep blowing all the air out of my lungs, out out out out out out till I was turning red in the face,
and then breathe normally, which would allow the normal exchange of oxygen in my lungs, i.e. actually at the cellular level.
All through grade school and high school I would practice this in the classes and also time holding my breath in the study halls.
People with asthma can only breath hold for 20 seconds or so, but I got up to nearly 2 minutes and went out for track.

The whole point of this is that a proper level of CO2 in the cells is necessary to have proper exchange with oxygen to the cells.
I hope this is helpful to you.
See also the Bohr effect <-- and 5 reasons to not hyperventilate. <--
 
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ElCastor said:
The ER doctor that spent a good part of a day with me explained that the chest pain was caused by the infection reaching the lining of my lungs. My oxygen held up, never below 90, and in a couple of days I tested OK. Now my wife and I are completely recovered, O2 95-99. Vaccination and boosting didn’t completely prevent infection, but it may be the reason we are still here. For those who are dubious - Get Vaccinated!
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If I chose to be vaccinated, I might tout its benefits. Since I'm not, I can't.
But I have noted the same reaction from people who initially didn't want to be vaccinated, then changed their minds after finding out they would lose their jobs if they weren't. Interesting - after they were vaccinated, they praised the vaccine.
Sort of: "I'll protect whatever choice I made." :giggle:

Reminds me of a co-worker. She had a great secure job with very good pay & benefits. She announced that she was going to move to another city 900 miles away. Since the economy was bad & jobs were scarce at the time, I asked her if she had a job lined up. She said, "No, but I'll find one as soon as I get settled." I asked, "Where are you going to stay?" She said, "At a friend's house."
I figured, "Well, she must have another source of income or a big savings account."
She called me a few months later from a cheap motel she was staying at nearby. She explained how miserable everything turned out - the friend's house she was staying at had no central heat, temperatures outside were around 0 & she spent all day sitting in front of a wall heater.
When she applied for jobs, there was a stack of hundreds of applications already there. She moved back.
Did she express any regrets or say she made a mistake? No. She said, "I'm glad I did it; it made me stronger."
 
ElCastor said:
Not being critical, but I'm wondering if you would care to share your reason(s) for not being vaccinated?
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Certainly, as I have previously. I'll get any vaccine, or take any medication IF I know it works If a vaccine works, very few people (if any) who got the vaccine would get the illness it was designed to prevent. Obviously, that hasn't been the case with Covid. So, I didn't even have to consider the safety of the vaccine; if it doesn't work, I don't want it; much like the flu shot, which I've also never had, or needed. Last flu was 40 years ago. After I recovered, I cared for many friends who had the flu, & never got it again. Much like Covid, I know people who got the flu despite their flu shot.
Experiences like that leave clues about a vaccine's effectiveness.
 
I had a friend, not a close friend, but nonetheless a friend that was asthmatic who died while having an asthmatic attack. He told his roomie that he thought if he kept using his inhaler, it would get better. The roomie called an ambulance and the EMT inserted a trach tube, which didn't help soon enough and he died. Don't think it will get better because it may not.
 
hawkdon said:
Both wed ev and thurs eve I went into what I call "panic" breathing, for some reason I had a very difficult time drawing in a breath...I would use my breath inhaler with mixed results..last eve was the worst of two nites...I stayed awake, I guess out of fear,
and it took a long time to get my breathing down to normal....I am COPD and heart
condition, but don't know what caused this episodes....took a covid test this morning
(home style) and it was inconclusive.....a couple times last eve I came close to calling
911 and getting a ride to E.R. but didn't do it....My personal doc is too busy to see
me today, so we will see what the weekend brings.....the joys of aging !!!o_O
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I had something very similar back in May of 2018 ... I called 911, was taken to the Hosp. They put me on 5% oxygen [4-5 hours] , then 3% [2-3 hours] . Then once I started breathing on my own [room air] I was given six shots , two in each arm, and two in the stomach. They said the shots were steroids, antibiotics, and vitamins.

I was released the next afternoon, when I asked the doc what the hell happened he said ... He believed I picked up a virus that he had never seen before. But I responded well to the shot combination he chose to [try]

I have wondered since ... if it was an early , less powerful strain of covid , the china virus.

I don't go around telling people what to do but ... ya might consider a hospital.
 
win231 said:
Certainly, as I have previously. I'll get any vaccine, or take any medication IF I know it works If a vaccine works, very few people (if any) who got the vaccine would get the illness it was designed to prevent. Obviously, that hasn't been the case with Covid.
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Sorry, but we can’t entirely agree. Granted that many of the vaccinated can still get the disease, BUT those who are fully vaccinated are less likely to be hospitalized or more importantly, die. My wife and I are near or past the 80 mark, both got the disease, and yet survived nicely without being hospitalized and are now 100% OK. Would the same be true had we not been vaccinated? Probably not.
 
ElCastor said:
Sorry, but we can’t entirely agree. Granted that many of the vaccinated can still get the disease, BUT those who are fully vaccinated are less likely to be hospitalized or more importantly, die. My wife and I are near or past the 80 mark, both got the disease, and yet survived nicely without being hospitalized and are now 100% OK. Would the same be true had we not been vaccinated? Probably not.
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We all should do whatever we have faith in & whatever fits our particular situation.
 
ElCastor said:
those who are fully vaccinated are less likely to be hospitalized or more importantly, die.
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So you've been told to think, by the same ones who invented and profit from their virus theory.

Personally I prefer to THINK for myself, to do what I want to do, and I have my own "cure" for their theory.
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