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LeneSouthAfrica

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Fred, the thingimajig that clips onto your finger is a pulse oximeter. The docs have fancy ones but you can buy a small portable one online, commonly used by pilots, and use it while exercising to see if your sats drop. I understand it works by having a little sensor that picks up the colour of your blood to establish how much oxygen is in your blood. Well-oxygenated blood is bright red, poorly oxygenated blood is dark red. Oxgyen 96-100% is normal for healthy people, 90-95% means your lungs are prob compromised but only below 90% needs supplemental oxygen. Not all doctors agree on when home O2 is needed, its not always predictable by looking at your Fev1...but if ur in hospital they give O2 if its below 90.
lightNlife, good work... I would like to hear more details about your exercise plan and high protein diet...and how to become by skinny-but-toned.
Lene'
 
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LeneSouthAfrica

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Fred, the thingimajig that clips onto your finger is a pulse oximeter. The docs have fancy ones but you can buy a small portable one online, commonly used by pilots, and use it while exercising to see if your sats drop. I understand it works by having a little sensor that picks up the colour of your blood to establish how much oxygen is in your blood. Well-oxygenated blood is bright red, poorly oxygenated blood is dark red. Oxgyen 96-100% is normal for healthy people, 90-95% means your lungs are prob compromised but only below 90% needs supplemental oxygen. Not all doctors agree on when home O2 is needed, its not always predictable by looking at your Fev1...but if ur in hospital they give O2 if its below 90.
lightNlife, good work... I would like to hear more details about your exercise plan and high protein diet...and how to become by skinny-but-toned.
Lene'
 
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LeneSouthAfrica

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Fred, the thingimajig that clips onto your finger is a pulse oximeter. The docs have fancy ones but you can buy a small portable one online, commonly used by pilots, and use it while exercising to see if your sats drop. I understand it works by having a little sensor that picks up the colour of your blood to establish how much oxygen is in your blood. Well-oxygenated blood is bright red, poorly oxygenated blood is dark red. Oxgyen 96-100% is normal for healthy people, 90-95% means your lungs are prob compromised but only below 90% needs supplemental oxygen. Not all doctors agree on when home O2 is needed, its not always predictable by looking at your Fev1...but if ur in hospital they give O2 if its below 90.
lightNlife, good work... I would like to hear more details about your exercise plan and high protein diet...and how to become by skinny-but-toned.
Lene'
 
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LeneSouthAfrica

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Fred, the thingimajig that clips onto your finger is a pulse oximeter. The docs have fancy ones but you can buy a small portable one online, commonly used by pilots, and use it while exercising to see if your sats drop. I understand it works by having a little sensor that picks up the colour of your blood to establish how much oxygen is in your blood. Well-oxygenated blood is bright red, poorly oxygenated blood is dark red. Oxgyen 96-100% is normal for healthy people, 90-95% means your lungs are prob compromised but only below 90% needs supplemental oxygen. Not all doctors agree on when home O2 is needed, its not always predictable by looking at your Fev1...but if ur in hospital they give O2 if its below 90.
lightNlife, good work... I would like to hear more details about your exercise plan and high protein diet...and how to become by skinny-but-toned.
Lene'
 
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LeneSouthAfrica

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Fred, the thingimajig that clips onto your finger is a pulse oximeter. The docs have fancy ones but you can buy a small portable one online, commonly used by pilots, and use it while exercising to see if your sats drop. I understand it works by having a little sensor that picks up the colour of your blood to establish how much oxygen is in your blood. Well-oxygenated blood is bright red, poorly oxygenated blood is dark red. Oxgyen 96-100% is normal for healthy people, 90-95% means your lungs are prob compromised but only below 90% needs supplemental oxygen. Not all doctors agree on when home O2 is needed, its not always predictable by looking at your Fev1...but if ur in hospital they give O2 if its below 90.
lightNlife, good work... I would like to hear more details about your exercise plan and high protein diet...and how to become by skinny-but-toned.
Lene'
 
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lightNlife

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Fred,
You bring up and excellent question about pulse oximetry. I'll recently had an overnight oximetry study done to determine whether or not I needed to be on supplemental oxygen. I have a pulse oximeter here at home that I do for spot checks, and I noticed that I was only "satting" around 93 most days. I'm rarely higher than 96% these days, so I was a bit concerned about that. When I visited my doc the other day, he had the results of the overnight study.

I'll put a descriptive article on my Understanding CF blog sometime later today. Thanks for the excellent question. I'll do my best to answer it thoroughly later on.
 
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lightNlife

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Fred,
You bring up and excellent question about pulse oximetry. I'll recently had an overnight oximetry study done to determine whether or not I needed to be on supplemental oxygen. I have a pulse oximeter here at home that I do for spot checks, and I noticed that I was only "satting" around 93 most days. I'm rarely higher than 96% these days, so I was a bit concerned about that. When I visited my doc the other day, he had the results of the overnight study.

I'll put a descriptive article on my Understanding CF blog sometime later today. Thanks for the excellent question. I'll do my best to answer it thoroughly later on.
 
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lightNlife

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Fred,
You bring up and excellent question about pulse oximetry. I'll recently had an overnight oximetry study done to determine whether or not I needed to be on supplemental oxygen. I have a pulse oximeter here at home that I do for spot checks, and I noticed that I was only "satting" around 93 most days. I'm rarely higher than 96% these days, so I was a bit concerned about that. When I visited my doc the other day, he had the results of the overnight study.

I'll put a descriptive article on my Understanding CF blog sometime later today. Thanks for the excellent question. I'll do my best to answer it thoroughly later on.
 
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lightNlife

New member
Fred,
You bring up and excellent question about pulse oximetry. I'll recently had an overnight oximetry study done to determine whether or not I needed to be on supplemental oxygen. I have a pulse oximeter here at home that I do for spot checks, and I noticed that I was only "satting" around 93 most days. I'm rarely higher than 96% these days, so I was a bit concerned about that. When I visited my doc the other day, he had the results of the overnight study.

I'll put a descriptive article on my Understanding CF blog sometime later today. Thanks for the excellent question. I'll do my best to answer it thoroughly later on.
 
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lightNlife

New member
Fred,
You bring up and excellent question about pulse oximetry. I'll recently had an overnight oximetry study done to determine whether or not I needed to be on supplemental oxygen. I have a pulse oximeter here at home that I do for spot checks, and I noticed that I was only "satting" around 93 most days. I'm rarely higher than 96% these days, so I was a bit concerned about that. When I visited my doc the other day, he had the results of the overnight study.

I'll put a descriptive article on my Understanding CF blog sometime later today. Thanks for the excellent question. I'll do my best to answer it thoroughly later on.
 
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AnD

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This is great news! <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif" border="0"> I'm so happy for you! <img src="i/expressions/heart.gif" border="0">

(and btw Joni- swimming is really good for your chest muscles- I have problems with my back and chest muscles, due to my mild scoliosis and a chronic problem with a tendon in my ribcage- and when I'm not feeling up to par, I swim with a "noodle" and do target/muscle strengthing swimming excercises and just make sure I'm moving for the allotted time, as opposed to swimming a typical workout <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0"> )
 
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AnD

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This is great news! <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif" border="0"> I'm so happy for you! <img src="i/expressions/heart.gif" border="0">

(and btw Joni- swimming is really good for your chest muscles- I have problems with my back and chest muscles, due to my mild scoliosis and a chronic problem with a tendon in my ribcage- and when I'm not feeling up to par, I swim with a "noodle" and do target/muscle strengthing swimming excercises and just make sure I'm moving for the allotted time, as opposed to swimming a typical workout <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0"> )
 
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AnD

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This is great news! <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif" border="0"> I'm so happy for you! <img src="i/expressions/heart.gif" border="0">

(and btw Joni- swimming is really good for your chest muscles- I have problems with my back and chest muscles, due to my mild scoliosis and a chronic problem with a tendon in my ribcage- and when I'm not feeling up to par, I swim with a "noodle" and do target/muscle strengthing swimming excercises and just make sure I'm moving for the allotted time, as opposed to swimming a typical workout <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0"> )
 
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AnD

New member
This is great news! <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif" border="0"> I'm so happy for you! <img src="i/expressions/heart.gif" border="0">

(and btw Joni- swimming is really good for your chest muscles- I have problems with my back and chest muscles, due to my mild scoliosis and a chronic problem with a tendon in my ribcage- and when I'm not feeling up to par, I swim with a "noodle" and do target/muscle strengthing swimming excercises and just make sure I'm moving for the allotted time, as opposed to swimming a typical workout <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0"> )
 
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AnD

New member
This is great news! <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif" border="0"> I'm so happy for you! <img src="i/expressions/heart.gif" border="0">

(and btw Joni- swimming is really good for your chest muscles- I have problems with my back and chest muscles, due to my mild scoliosis and a chronic problem with a tendon in my ribcage- and when I'm not feeling up to par, I swim with a "noodle" and do target/muscle strengthing swimming excercises and just make sure I'm moving for the allotted time, as opposed to swimming a typical workout <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0"> )
 
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