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Originally Posted by Tracy9
My pulse ox is usually 98, but in the hospital it was 93. They still would say it was fine at 93, but it didn't seem so fine to me and I was having huge problems catching my breath.
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A pulse ox of 93 is fine in the sense that you have enough oxygen in your tissues. It does not give any information about the degree of weakness of your respiratory muscles. Although, in someone with a baseline level of 98, a pulse ox of 93 would suggest significant respiratory muscle weakness. (unless there is some other cause that made it go down, such as pneumonia or a vascular event).