How many of you have changed pulse ox setting as COVID-19 measure or thought about it?

Thanks, thats the kind of info I'm looking for here, since this has never seemed right to me. If you guys are all observing much more stable readings with much less range then I'd agree its probably my sensor.. I've never had to try to get anything fixed though..it should be under warranty from Garmin at barely over a year or..? Its always been pretty disappointingly bad, probably could go back and see from day one what readings were if I need to.

Like today, a typical day, I get this nonsense starting 12-1 going to sleep: 87, 90, 95, 91, 88, 88, 93, 92(wake), 92, 89, 90,90, 91, 92, 93, 94

SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish said:

Like today, a typical day, I get this nonsense starting 12-1 going to sleep: 87, 90, 95, 91, 88, 88, 93, 92(wake), 92, 89, 90,90, 91, 92, 93, 94

That's not daily trend, that's trend of the independent measurements or hourly trend or something. Looking at those it's not the trend I'm talking about. I only looked at the number given for the whole day, which is most probably average of all the daily measurements and that was stable.

jmto said:

Looking at those it's not the trend I'm talking about. I only looked at the number given for the whole day, which is most probably average of all the daily measurements and that was stable.

I understand what you're talking about as far as trends with the daily average. I don't know if you keep yours on 24/7 or just during sleep, but do you have jumps like 87-94 on your graph? I certainly don't. 

OK cool, thanks. I look at both, both are always unstable. Daily is a little less varied, but still 90-94% with no obvious trends matched with conditions etc. Mine seems to be acting different and varying more than others posting here. 

tess said:

but do you have jumps like 87-94 on your graph?

When I started this thread I did put it on 24/7. Here's a "bad" day and a "good" day. Can't say much, might be like on a bad day I have had the watch too loose or something, or I don't know, still not much worried about the data on the bad day. Now I've turned it off, as the situation is more stable/better at least in here *knock**knock*.

I too stopped all day and during sleep as it seemed to be the same and the novelty wore off.  I maybe check once a day now.  Anyway, even your bad day isn't that bad as far as the gap between your high and low.  It most likely read low, but 88-93 is fairly reasonable in a day compared to a 85-96 day that SoLong.... keeps experiencing and his is consistent.  I've read other post of his and I'm pretty certain it's not an issue of how the watch is worn or he would be experiencing other problems too.  This doesn't seem to be the case. 

I kind of get a combo of those two graphs that were posted, usually it doesn't stay yellow as long, but its range is wide. Yes Tess I did just get another 85-96% range yesterday too, its not every day, and sometimes in the past even bigger range than that, today doesn't seem to be as low or high (but its not over yet), I havent gotten 80 in a while, but this is the lowest I remember ever.

I also have no health issues, I'm a weight lifter, and I do do some running in the 8 min/mile range, which for my age and frame and disliking road running, isn't bad. So I have no viable reason I'd even be down in the low 90s (let alone 80s)... also I have not been sick even once this year: one GREAT thing about wearing masks all the time! I even wear a p100 3M full face mask while lifting so I dont catch and unknowingly pass the virus on to the vulnerable in my life, since in the gym there are a few covidiots who let their masks hang down. I also lift comparatively heavy with this mask on and I'm not light headed, fainting, or dying, so I do not have oxygenation issues obviously. And no I only started exercising in the gym the past say month or so, so that isn't it either, and sometimes it says I'm more oxygenated working out in this mask?..yeah let me count the ways its off.

I was excited about the pulse ox function when I bought this last year, hoping to get some insight whether I had any apnea going on and to see how I did going up elevation, and then this year hoped to be using it as a warning sign in case I did get covid19, so this is why I've watched it so closely, hoping each update they fix something. Its just too randomly unreliable to really give it much of any credence though.  

Actually the month or two before this update I had given up and hadn't looked, I just looked and saw a couple 81-98% days, a couple of 85-100 days (I guess it does get higher than 98 relatively recently) so occasionally a 15-17% range..and no no symptoms of any kind..

I just switch on spo2 during sleep. It is just a good stat to have and monitor. My daily average is in the range 95-96%. If the number suddenly drops significantly below, then I should be wary about my health.

My Signal ist quite Constant. Never hot below 90%. Most Times between 94 and 98 for me. If Low it also Changes quite fast after opening the Windows after 9 hours being closes or so