I am seriously not getting enough oxygen

[AFWife]

It doesn't happen all the time (I think it's a baby position thing) but I'll suddenly have to take really deep breaths and I'm dizzy and tired. It's weird. It can last hours. No tingling in the fingers or lips or anything so I'm not worried about my levels being THAT low.

I usually have to lay down on my left side all stretched out and wait for it to pass.

It's really annoying because I can't take care of my toddler when this happens. I didn't get this with my previous pregnancy...I'm carrying MUCH higher with this one.

[HappyHelpmate]

This may not be the case with you, but while I was pregnant with #2, I was experiencing frequent shortness of breath, and I read in a pregnancy yoga book (of all places!) that low iron (hence low red-blood count) can lead to shortness of breath. I soon after started on Floradix Iron and Voila! I could breath just like normal again! Just something you could check.

[AFWife]

Originally Posted by HappyHelpmate

This may not be the case with you, but while I was pregnant with #2, I was experiencing frequent shortness of breath, and I read in a pregnancy yoga book (of all places!) that low iron (hence low red-blood count) can lead to shortness of breath. I soon after started on Floradix Iron and Voila! I could breath just like normal again! Just something you could check.

My MW did a CBC check on Friday...I'll see when the results will be in! I eat plenty of iron rich foods (I think anyway...I'm a huge carnivore this pregnancy)

Did yours come and go?

[HappyHelpmate]

Yeah, to some extent. Mostly when walking quickly, but (if I can remember right) also when I'd stand up quickly, or bend over, and things like that. I guess it ususally happened when going from resting to moving, but even sometimes when I'd lay down... It was kinda strange.
It seems like at times, I just couldn't even breath DEEPLY enough to satisfy my need for oxygen, which felt more like a lack of space causing it, but after I started the iron, even that got better.

[Qbear'smama]

This happened to me too, more in mid-pregnancy than now, it is so uncomfortable and stressful! I did find I felt better after I started taking Floradix and maybe now it's better because the baby has dropped somewhat, I did carry higher than with my first and that seems to have made a difference, too. When laying on my side, I make sure the belly is as low as possible, like I used to use a pillow under it or a wedge, and sometimes removing that and letting it settle lower would make a difference. Also I don't sit reclined, I find that makes it worse.

[kitty waltz]

You can buy liquid oxygen at a health food store - they are drops you put into a plass of water and when digested, turns into more oxygen in the blood.  :-)

[~Adorkable~]

Liquid oxygen??? I'm going to need an explanation of that one, since it would have to be way way below freezing for that to be true, can you explain?

AFWife , as for you... Sorry this sounds like it sucks, I get a few minutes of it here and there when my one high up twin desires to flip over, I think he is pushing on my diaphragm. It's horrible! I have really liked spending a moment on my hands and knees rocking a bit, it seems to dialog him from the bad spot and help him find a comfy place we can both enjoy.

[~Adorkable~]

BTW here is an interesting note on the liquid oxygen supplement



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_Oxygen_(supplement)
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Aarrg, new format is messing with my link, you need to have that supplement word in the link too, or click the option to go to it from the page this links to.


Another thing that my DH just pointed out (he works in Ocupational Therapy with some folks having low lung capacity) that the feeling of not getting enough air is caused in the body when we actually have a buildup of CO2, rather than a lack of O. So adding oxygen would not particularry make you feel better.



So full exhales may help you feel better than holding in a deep breath for instance.



Strange but after I thought about it for a minute it makes a lot of sense. Some of the scariest suffocation stories are of folks that breathed in nitrogen and that let them breath out all the CO2 and not feel it build up, the never felt themselves "out of air" till they passed out and died.

[geekgolightly]

A healthy body works both by sensing low O2 as well as high CO2. So, it could be either.

I've never heard of liquid O2. I'll have to read about that!

Originally Posted by ~Adorkable~ 

BTW here is an interesting note on the liquid oxygen supplement



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_Oxygen_(supplement)
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Aarrg, new format is messing with my link, you need to have that supplement word in the link too, or click the option to go to it from the page this links to.


Another thing that my DH just pointed out (he works in Ocupational Therapy with some folks having low lung capacity) that the feeling of not getting enough air is caused in the body when we actually have a buildup of CO2, rather than a lack of O. So adding oxygen would not particularry make you feel better.



So full exhales may help you feel better than holding in a deep breath for instance.



Strange but after I thought about it for a minute it makes a lot of sense. Some of the scariest suffocation stories are of folks that breathed in nitrogen and that let them breath out all the CO2 and not feel it build up, the never felt themselves "out of air" till they passed out and died.

[geekgolightly]

here is an excerpt from the wiki entry for the SUPPLEMENT liquid oxygen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_Oxygen_%28supplement%29

Liquid Oxygen is the name of a product that is a solution of hydrogen peroxide^[1] and other compounds including sodium chloride (common salt)^[2][3] that claims to help with, "Jet lag, fatigue, altitude sickness, headaches, hangovers, youthful skin, energy, and insomnia".^[2][4] Ken Harvey, a member of the World Health Organisation team that formulated criteria for the promotion of medicinal drugs and a member of Auspharm Consumer Health Watch, states that the product is no more than salty water with oxygen dissolved in it.^[3] Since oxygen becomes a liquid only below −182.96°C consumption of actual liquid oxygen would be highly ill-advised. The Federal Trade Commission has prosecuted purveyors of such products for making "blatantly false and unsubstantiated health claims".^[5]

[AFWife]

Thanks everyone. That whole liquid O2 thing is kind of...weird.

I spend a lot of times with my arms over my head in an attempt to pull my ribs upward.

[Lady Lilya]

It's just a matter of semantics.  Water with oxygen dissolved in it is hydrogen peroxide.  It is very fragile -- meaning it loses the extra oxygen easily.  So if you ingest it, the extra oxygens come off and you get more oxygen floating around in you.  So, it is a liquid that increases your oxygen, not a liquid composed entirely of oxygen as you might imagine from the name.

[geekgolightly]

Originally Posted by Lady Lilya 

It's just a matter of semantics.  Water with oxygen dissolved in it is hydrogen peroxide.  It is very fragile -- meaning it loses the extra oxygen easily.  So if you ingest it, the extra oxygens come off and you get more oxygen floating around in you.  So, it is a liquid that increases your oxygen, not a liquid composed entirely of oxygen as you might imagine from the name.

I don't think it's a matter of semantics. I have never in my entire life heard of H2O2 as being a therapy for hypoxia. In fact, I think it's dangerous to see it as a matter of semantics.

[AFWife]

Originally Posted by geekgolightly 

Originally Posted by Lady Lilya 

It's just a matter of semantics.  Water with oxygen dissolved in it is hydrogen peroxide.  It is very fragile -- meaning it loses the extra oxygen easily.  So if you ingest it, the extra oxygens come off and you get more oxygen floating around in you.  So, it is a liquid that increases your oxygen, not a liquid composed entirely of oxygen as you might imagine from the name.

I don't think it's a matter of semantics. I have never in my entire life heard of H2O2 as being a therapy for hypoxia. In fact, I think it's dangerous to see it as a matter of semantics.

I think there is some guy that recommends injections of H2O2 as part of a healthy life....Kevin Trudeau or something?

[Lady Lilya]

Originally Posted by geekgolightly 

Originally Posted by Lady Lilya 

It's just a matter of semantics.  Water with oxygen dissolved in it is hydrogen peroxide.  It is very fragile -- meaning it loses the extra oxygen easily.  So if you ingest it, the extra oxygens come off and you get more oxygen floating around in you.  So, it is a liquid that increases your oxygen, not a liquid composed entirely of oxygen as you might imagine from the name.

I don't think it's a matter of semantics. I have never in my entire life heard of H2O2 as being a therapy for hypoxia. In fact, I think it's dangerous to see it as a matter of semantics.

I didn't say that the matter of semantics is that "H2O2 is a therapy for hypoxia".  I said that calling H2O2 "liquid oxygen" is a matter of semantics.  

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AFWife, A friend of mine is doing a H2O2 therapy.  Not for any particular condition, but just for overall better health.  I can't remember who is the author of the book he is using, but I would have remembered if it was Kevin Trudeau.

The book told him to get a certain grade of H2O2, and dilute it to a certain ratio, and then take a certain number of drops of that per day mixed in water.  There is a schedule of how many drops each time.

He said he had a chronic tooth infection, and it is going away now after many years.  He doesn't know if it is related to the H2O2, or is the result of other changes in his life.