W2R
Moderator Emeritus
Sorry to read that you may have Covid. Glad your symptoms thus far are not too bad. Maybe you should see your doctor?
I don't really know much about the validity of the home tests, other than what I read here and on other forums, but I sure seem to read about a lot of "iffy" results. I never had a home test myself. If I think I might have Covid, I'll just stay home and take all precautions as though I do have it, until I feel better.
The one time when I did have Covid, last September, it was a pretty severe case and hit me like a ton of bricks. I got really sick in just an hour or so. Frank called for an ambulance, which I remember (and resisted! ) but I don't remember anything after that. Apparently they took me to a hospital, where a Covid test was done and after they diagnosed Covid double pneumonia, they sent me from the emergency room to the ICU.
I didn't get my oximeter until a few days after I was released from the hospital two weeks later, and had returned home. At first I was getting readings around 87-92, but that improved in just a day or two or three and never again got that low. Since then, my oxygen has been 95-97. I still measure it every morning, mostly because I think the oximeter is fun to use.
I don't really know much about the validity of the home tests, other than what I read here and on other forums, but I sure seem to read about a lot of "iffy" results. I never had a home test myself. If I think I might have Covid, I'll just stay home and take all precautions as though I do have it, until I feel better.
The one time when I did have Covid, last September, it was a pretty severe case and hit me like a ton of bricks. I got really sick in just an hour or so. Frank called for an ambulance, which I remember (and resisted! ) but I don't remember anything after that. Apparently they took me to a hospital, where a Covid test was done and after they diagnosed Covid double pneumonia, they sent me from the emergency room to the ICU.
I didn't get my oximeter until a few days after I was released from the hospital two weeks later, and had returned home. At first I was getting readings around 87-92, but that improved in just a day or two or three and never again got that low. Since then, my oxygen has been 95-97. I still measure it every morning, mostly because I think the oximeter is fun to use.