Alma Posted November 19, 2015 Report Share Posted November 19, 2015 I went for arterial blood gas today. Has anyone else had one, and did it show up anything unusual? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ANCY Posted November 19, 2015 Report Share Posted November 19, 2015 I've had several it has been a while since my last one. My Pulmonologist just told me it showed I was not breathing deep enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alma Posted November 19, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2015 Thanks, ANCY. Is that a pots thing, not breathing deeply enough? Breathing must be regulated by autonomic system, right? I'm new to this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ANCY Posted November 20, 2015 Report Share Posted November 20, 2015 Breething is voluntary and involuntary meeting that yes there is autonomic involvment. Not sure as to its correlation to POTS. My Pulmonologist is not POTS expert and we were addressing several other issues at the time. Hope your ABG turns out well! Let us know how it goes? God bless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichGotsPots Posted November 21, 2015 Report Share Posted November 21, 2015 Blood gas can show metabolic acidosis or alkoidosis. This is not linked specifically to POTS but it could linked to illnesses that cause dysautonomia, it's not only breathing related. And yes autonomic system controls breathing and up to 30% with dysautonmia have breathing problems but only less then 5% have bad problems from it. And maybe 1% would say it's one of their worst symptoms. There are many posts I have polled about it on here. Also there are studies that show pots people a type of hyperventialtion (not like rapid type you normally think of) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alma Posted November 21, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2015 Thanks for this info! I will post when I get the results. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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