“I would often pull it down to get fresh air. I always felt like I was suffocating in those darn things.”
I use the KN95s, and with COPD, I can only take it for a few minutes, too.
SamAdams76
“I would often pull it down to get fresh air. I always felt like I was suffocating in those darn things.”
I use the KN95s, and with COPD, I can only take it for a few minutes, too.”
3 years ago we had the late summer months surrounded by forest fires. Smoke was
I was not able to finish even short walks due to the smoke.
My cardio doc recommended using the 3M KN95’s. So we bought a package of them.
I put one on and went on the 120 yard long street by our house with a simple 5 degree incline on the last 40 yards.
I was having problems breathing on level ground, and I barely made about 10 yards on the simple grade. I pulled off the mask and returned home. My RN wife met me at the door and helped me in.
She had me lay down on the couch and elevate my upper body. My pulse rate was over 100. It took about 10 minutes to get back into normal breathing.
There was a shortage of masks in the early phases of Covid 1984 and some hospitals accepted mask donations. Our HMO accepted some cheap cloth masks and turned down the KN95’s because they can’t breath with them.