Re:Omicron at 100% Prevalence, Colorado
by causality0 on Thursday January 06, 2022 @12:17PM
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Muscle aches, chest pain, headache, and severe coughing fits that won't let her sleep and scare me when I hear them from the other room. After being awake for two days and one of them dropping her blood oxygen to 87 I made her go to the emergency room where they gave her prescription cough medicine that finally let her sleep.
Omicron is less dangerous than Delta. It's still dangerous.
Re:Omicron at 100% Prevalence, Colorado
by tluyben2 on Thursday January 06, 2022 @12:28PM
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Sorry to hear about your troubles. Everyone is shouting in the media (including here) Omicron is upper tract instead of lower so I had hoped you wouldn't get oxygen drops that low or lung related chest pains. Maybe I misunderstood what these things mean although some renowned newspapers here explained it like that.
Wait 87 SpO2?! I'm pretty sure that's the point at which you would be on a ventilator? Not sure what sleep has to do with SpO2 and it seems criminally negligent for the emergency room to just send your wife off with just a cough medicine..
An SpO2 of 92% or lower is considered severe. In most cases the patient should be hospitalized.
Re:Omicron at 100% Prevalence, Colorado
by causality0 on Thursday January 06, 2022 @07:08PM
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If it stays there yes. This was for less than five seconds. After the medicine it hasn't gone below 95.
Can you give us some indication of how severe your symptoms are? Mostly we're hearing that if you've been vaccinated and/or you've had covid in the past that omicron is relatively mild.