Hi, I’m a healthy 26 year old male. I bought a pulse oximeter during COVID to have on hand in case someone in my household got sick. Thankfully we are all virus-free and healthy. Out of curiosity I test it out on occasion, and generally my levels hover around 96-98, which I believe is a normal range.
For some reason, when I was wearing it earlier, my levels were hovering around 95/96 and then dropped to 93 for a few seconds, before rebounding back to 96 again. Isn’t this incredibly low? I’m worried that a 93% reading indicates I somehow wasn’t getting enough oxygen for that brief period of time. Would a brief drop to 93% indicate I was deprived of oxygen to any extent, or enough to cause any sort of damage? Or is this really nothing to worry about.
Thanks all!