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I want to talk about #LongCovid & #hypoxia & how my experience of it now is *drastically*, even *dangerously* different to what prior lung issues taught me.
I didn't plan to do this thread and I'm not thinking clearly atm, but it's important, so I'm going to give it a go.
I didn't plan to do this thread and I'm not thinking clearly atm, but it's important, so I'm going to give it a go.
Background: I was born prematurely & before synthetic surfactant, so I have asthma and temperamental lungs in general. I also have an extensive history of pneumonias that try to kill me (as in ICU stays). So I've had 40 years of knowing how to handle not being able to breathe.
I knew about happy hypoxia. I knew how, when, and what to do about it when my judgment about whether I was alright started to slip, and I knew that that's often the first thing to go when you're hypoxic - *first*, you feel... off. Unquantifiably off. It's easy to miss it.
