Has anyone had any experience with, or knowledge of, desaturation with exertion? I have boderline surgical stenotic BAV (although some docs are ready to go, my numbers aren't quite there yet.) I have been using the elyptical, plus I hike, about 5 days a week for 50 minutes and it seems like I desaturate at the begginning. Resting HR is usually 50s. When I start to warm up I sometimes go inot the low 80s for my O2 sat. right around HR 110. As I warm up to anywhere from 127 to 138 HR it hovers in the 95 or 96 range ( which isn't pathologic on it's own, but I wonder with all that amped up circulation why it wouldn't be better saturated.) Mostly it's the de-sat I wonder about. The other peice of this puzzle is that the last two stress echos I've had they say I did great, "in the atheletic range" (of course that is compared to most 62 year old women!) but I had to quit before the full time because I felt like I just couldn't catch up at the very end, I wasn't gasping, I just couldn't go anymore and asked to stop. I always felt like I could have done it, if the very last part had increased more gradually. It was weird. They said you can stop any time and so I did. Anyway, the report showed that my O2 desaturated at the same time I needed to quit. It was in the upper 80's, HR was 155 ish. Two cardiologists and one surgeon plus my asthma doc (I have well controlled asthma and he said it wasn't asthma) shrugged their shoulders and said they didn't know why I might desat. So, sorry for the long story but I've researched a little and found basically, zilch.
Thanks for taking the time to read this. Bonbet
P.S. I don't know what's up with this site, I registered as McCbon a long time ago and then they seemed to have canceled me with the whole site update so I reregistered as bonbet. Now I am showing up as McCbon again. Can't explain that either!
Thanks for taking the time to read this. Bonbet
P.S. I don't know what's up with this site, I registered as McCbon a long time ago and then they seemed to have canceled me with the whole site update so I reregistered as bonbet. Now I am showing up as McCbon again. Can't explain that either!