Many people after covid complain of chest pain. This is a known issue. Most of it is associated with bones and muscles. People cough so much that their ribs hurt. Then, after recovery, the pain persists for some time.
There is also bronchospasm. In principle, he can stay with everyone for a month and a half, even after a common cold. And covid is all colds.
So bronchospasm can manifest itself not only shortness of breath or wheezing, but also a feeling of unpleasant congestion in the chest. Asthmatics know this well. Asthmatics know, and all other people are very surprised. It seems like pain to them.
This week with colleagues discussed that patients who have recovered from covid are difficult to wean from an oxygen nipple. They literally sleep in an embrace with an oxygen tube. Already, their saturation is ideal, but they still do not let go. They complain that without oxygen their chest hurts.
Well, and then I could not resist and put in my five cents. Or maybe they have, I say, oxygen just restrains the movement of the chest?
Imagine people have already recovered. Their lungs breathe. They lie quietly without oxygen, sit and even walk with saturation at 100%. So what happens if you leave them oxygen? They will just breathe shallowly.
That is, it is enough for them to take rare small breaths, and the saturation will be excellent. Then the nipple is taken away from them. They have to expand their lungs like newborns and breathe deeply.
And their chest was already damaged by a cough, and they breathed on their oxygen very shallowly.
The strained ribs and the respiratory muscles shortened from bed rest hurt and frighten their owners.
People immediately grab for oxygen. But not because they have shortness of breath, but because it hurts them to breathe deeply.
Have you noticed this?
