Lowest O2 reading?

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What is your lowest O2 reading?

95+
2
3%
90-95
5
6%
80-90
28
36%
70-80
17
22%
70 and lower
25
32%
 
Total votes: 77

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Lizistired
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Re: Lowest O2 reading?

Post by Lizistired » Thu Feb 24, 2011 8:01 am

82 at my sleep study.
68 at home at my "prescribed" pressure.
Usually 98 during the day.

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Re: Lowest O2 reading?

Post by absolutscharf » Fri Feb 25, 2011 12:51 pm

Sleep study: 65%
On APAP: 93%
Daytime: 98%

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Re: Lowest O2 reading?

Post by jbn3boys » Fri Feb 25, 2011 1:25 pm

I must be a rare breed During two sleep studies they have never recorded my sats below 90%

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Re: Lowest O2 reading?

Post by ohammersmith » Fri Feb 25, 2011 1:39 pm

85 and I think maybe even 84 one night when my mask was leaking badly.

as low as 89-90 during the day sitting around.

usually is 95-96.

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Re: Lowest O2 reading?

Post by NightMonkey » Fri Feb 25, 2011 2:44 pm

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Re: Lowest O2 reading?

Post by sharppointy1 » Fri Feb 25, 2011 11:01 pm

In my pre sleep study home oximetry I was below **% over 90 % of the night.
Doc ordered oxygen at 2 liters every night.
Started CPAP las weeke w pressure of 14 and 2 liters oxygen still.
Have discovered if I am not getting oxygen my brain wakes me up by making horribly nightmares that wake me.

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Mr Bill
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Re: Lowest O2 reading?

Post by Mr Bill » Sat Feb 26, 2011 1:45 am

My wrist unit might record one or two below 60% on a night. Checking 7 consecutive nights of sleep I spent about 10% of total sleep time below 88% without an ASV. If you factor in my pattern of an hour awake alternating with an hour in apnea, I could guess that while having apneas I might have been spending about 20% of those times below SpO2 88%.
EPAP min=6, EPAP max=15, PS min=3, PS max=12, Max Pressure=30, Backup Rate=8 bpm, Flex=0, Rise Time=1,
90% EPAP=7.0, Avg PS=4.0, Avg bpm 18.3, Avg Min vent 9.2 Lpm, Avg CA/OA/H/AHI = 0.1/0.1/2.1/2.3 ... updated 02/17/12

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Re: Lowest O2 reading?

Post by mbmonkey1971 » Thu Mar 24, 2011 9:26 pm

My O2 bottomed out at 21 % . The respiratory nurse told me in her 25 years of work the lowest she had seen had been in the mid 40's . just stayed there for a few secs then back up to mid 90's

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Post by Tracey Gallingtonc » Fri Mar 25, 2011 10:13 am

Hello. And Bye.