Is 88 percent considered a good oxygen level?

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I have read your query and understand your concern. Is your pulse oximeter working properly? Do you have symptoms like breathing difficulty, chest pain, or fever? Do you have any medical conditions? I suggest you to walk a few steps in the room for two minutes and recheck it.

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You are taking medication for high cholesterol, blood pressure, enlarged prostate, and uric acid. There is no medication for asthma except an inhaler. Also, respiratory symptoms are progressive in terms of respiratory difficulty. Therefore, your breathing difficulty needs evaluation to know the cause of your breathing difficulty. As you have mentioned, even a rescue inhaler does not work, which suggests some other etiology, or you need step-up treatment for asthma along with an inhaler. You are suffering from breathing difficulty at rest, so your pulse oximeter value is around 88, which correlates with the clinical symptoms. I suggest you to visit the hospital without any delay to start on an oxygen supplement through a nasal spray to increase your SpO2 level. Your concerned doctor would then order a laboratory investigation to know the cause of oxygen desaturation.

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