The pulmonologist sent me home with a device to record oxygen levels overnight. He said that if oxygen is needed at night, using oxygen will extend life. OK. I have done this twice before, and it’s been ok, but COPD is a progressive disease, so maybe it’s time. . . And as was pointed out in one of the forums I read, if I check during the night with my ordinary pulse oximeter, it is checking when I am awake, and maybe it was lower when I was asleep. Here we go!
The device is the size of a paperback book, with a normal finger thing on a long cord attached to the device. There is a “posey” velcro band to hold the cord. Not sure why this seems important, but they said to use it, so I did. That was the first mistake. The “posey” had a powerful scent. Perhaps it is the sanitizing solution they used or perhaps the previous user is heavily perfumed. Maybe it wasn’t even sanitized. Since I sleep on my side with my hand near my head it was overpowering. I took it off and put it away, but it took a good half hour of snorting and coughing to get my system cleared.
Second mistake - the device blinks with a yellow light. So I got up and covered the light with a ribbon. Some light came through. So I put the device face down on an adjacent pillow. If I checked the device during the night, sometimes I forgot to put it face down. I had dreams of wandering through the forest chasing lightning bugs.
Third mistake - the finger holder has a red light. I had other dreams of fire engines.
It was the worst night sleep I’ve had in years!
Good news is that from what I can see, the saturation was acceptable. Whenever I looked during the night, it was above 93. We’ll see what the data shows when I send the device back to be read.
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I see that they are developing a device to connect to the iphone. It costs around $50, but the reviews are not good.
Perhaps improvements are on the way??? If it works, it would be great and a vast improvement on the $790 I signed that I would pay if I lost or destroyed the borrowed device. For that money I could buy the best iphone SE with the greatest memory, pay sales tax, buy the oximeter and still have money left over.
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