Your heart can push the oxy meter up. What was your heart reading at the time? I'm not a DR(surprise!) just throwing this out to you from personal experience.

Have you seen your pulmonologist and had a pulmonary function test? Do you have copd? I ask this because the last post I recall by you, you had not yet seen a pulmonologist.

Shortness of breath is not necessarily correlated with oxygen saturation levels. As I recall there are members of this forum who have copd who get short of breath, yet their oxygen saturation readings are good.

There are causes of shortness of breath other than copd, such as heart problems. Also, being significantly overweight can cause shortness of breath.

I don't have the answer to your question. I like to mention though that sometimes my O2 drops a bit if I'm anxious or if I don't breath regular. Pursed lip breathing tends to get the O2 back up.

as our lungs function less the heart starts having to work harder to compensate getting the oxygen into the blood stream.

that is why the oximeter's all have 02 AND pulse readings (or should)---it's a balancing act to get the right amount of 02 while keeping your pulse in proper "range" so your heart doesn't have to work overtime & go into heart failure.

last year my pulse started going high (just sitting around). after almost 4 years on the same amount of 02 i had to up mine.

the heart and lungs are a "team"...and it's normal when active we breath harder & the heart pumps harder to move that 02 around....now with copd the lungs arent doing their part of the "team" action so the heart has to take up the slack.

as boldrint brought up shortness of breath is a whole nother and seperater issue, but i didn't see you complaining of that....sounds like you are doing pretty good so far, have you had a PFT or is that for the pulm to do?

i sey a lung doc tommoro,im perectly normal if im sitting,as so as i move around i start hyn-ventilating,my pulse stays in the mid 90s anwhen i stop it goes back to the 70s,im on 2 prednesone a day and cant seem to get the flem out of my lungs,they will clear up for a short while if i do some heavy persed breathing but then its back with the crackly voice

what do you consider "normal"?
when you're sitting around what is your heart rate/pulse & 02 levels?

pursed lip breathing is not something you do "hard"
pursed lip breathing you;
1.breath in thru the nose to the count of 2
2. breath out thru "pursed lips" to the count of 4
this is to get rid of the excess air that we don't usually blow out
http://www.copdfoundation.org/What-is-COPD/Living-with-COPD/Breathing-Techniques.aspx

that link shows the breathing techniques, but it is also the COPD foundation & if you click on different links it has a world of information there specifically about this dx

Be sure to take your pulse-ox along to the pulmo appointment & compare readings with their pulse-ox. Never hurts to verify yours is accurate.

Hugs,
TJ

Buickoreo, is your confusion related to being short of breath with good oxygen saturation readings? I assumed it was because in a post earlier this month you said you get short of breath walking 20 yards.

yes and i read that to much prednisone or duoneb can make you hyper,i get hyper and feels like im sob but my meter says ihave 95 and96,the gp has me of 40 every morning to get rid of this flem i cant get out of my throat,the only way i can open that up and stop the noise is to take air in and exhale untill i cough,but it comes back,lookin forward to the lung doc tommoro,get weird dreams from that much prednesone,b4 prednesone my pulse was always in 60 to 70s now in 70s and 80s,except on wakeup were it is always 67bpm