I AM 72, and frustrating running into some health problems. For the past 6 months I crash nearly every day after about 2 to 4 hours of being up. So progress on all projects is running at 1/2 speed.
And as before the Doctors cannot find anything wrong...I am down to Chronic Fatigue, or a new idea we are testing low OX in blood stream. The damn thing is it often runs under 95% but almost never drops below 90%, which is near the point they will add O2, which is at 88%.
So again I am stuck with how I can be sickly but not sick enough for treatment. Seems the medical profession is mainly geared to keep you alive. Not to help you LIVE…
Spending most of my time feeling 60% dead, is not living.
There is some evidence that when you drop below 95% blood O2 ratio there is some impairment….Fatigue and brain fogging is common the more below 95% you go.
Which I am now putting together a picture of how this could be happening, and that my CPAP can be partly being the cause of my current problems.
I shallow breath, short small intakes of air. This is enough to sustain me but as the day wares on I run down and crash.
How my CPAP Machine could be the cause if it kind of forces air into my lungs, fast and easy…so I do not need to draw the air in. I am finding that most of the night I am running at 95% and above, the machine keeps me well fed.
But 8 to 10 hours a night doing these short boosted breathing has trained me to breathe like that all day and that seems to be where I lose my good ratios…and then crash.
So I now trying to take long deep breaths, it is hard as if I do anything I forget to do them.
I found how much this is machine caused when I tried to take such breaths on it going to sleep: IT Fought me…it cut the incoming air causing me take short breaths. Seems this breathing rate was going below the preset breathing backup rate of 12 breaths a minute.
I switched it back on Auto backup rate…it now does not fight me.
I also am wearing my recording pulse oxitmeter day time to see how my day and crashed go, to see if I do crash when my ratios drop below 95%.
Rich