I'm so pissed off

[rainbowannie]

Good luck with the test.

You have my sympathy - my four weeks out of the water was only bearable because it was over Xmas and the New Year. I beat myself up over getting bent for months afterwards but no one really understands why it happened in the first place. I was more hydrated than anyone else on the trip and yet they said I was probably dehydrated. It was definitely a wake up call. There were lots of little things that weren't quite right but nothing serious. Put them altogether on the same dive and - wham!

We did a comparison of my dive computer and found that it wasn't quite so conservative on the second dive of the day - perfectly safe for most people but I changed mine on the strength that I personally needed to be more conservative.

I do tend to dive a weak nitrox mix a lot of the time now and keep the computer on air settings and also mine has a choice of 3 safety settings and I keep it on 2. That said I did the same trip last year on air all week and had no problems at all.

Good luck!

[deneo72]

hope the test prove yoou ok and bback in the water as soon as possible

[neilh]

Gutted for you - unfortunately getting bent is one of those things that sometimes happens for no obvious reason. There isn't a way to come up with a yes you will/no you won't plan

I'd certainly be curious to know the outcome if your dive was a conservative 10m dive with a nice profile though. I'm no doctor (medical anyway ) but I'd be surprised if that wasn't PFO territory.

[Polly]

Sorry to hear that matey. Take care of yourself and get properly checked by the docs before you risk anything else.

In the meantime, there are plenty of beers at ours to keep your mind off things! ;-) xxx

[Beanie]

(08-02-2010 08:18 PM)Polly Wrote:  Sorry to hear that matey. Take care of yourself and get properly checked by the docs before you risk anything else.

In the meantime, there are plenty of beers at ours to keep your mind of things! ;-) xxx

Waheyyyyy
Deco fluid

[deneo72]

so youu going for beer bend then beanie lol

[Roy]

(07-02-2010 05:14 PM)Beanie Wrote:  They place you on I.V. saline solution and agitate the solution so there are small bubbles going through the I.V. into your blood while watching your heart on a scanner to see if the bubbles migrate from the left atrium to the right atrium.

Had that done three times now. Quite painless.

But if thats inconclusive and you have to undergo a TOE without sedation, well, thats a whole different ball game.

Fingers crossed for you.

[DaveS]

I was just re-reading your symptoms there and realised that everyone always get pre-occupied with a PFO.
My dad had very similar symptoms when he was learning to dive. I took him into the water to do his 2nd open water dive and he came up from 6m feeling dizzy, sick etc. Both dive profiles were what I would call easy dives - down to 6/7m, bimble around a bit and ascend slowly. He went to the hospital who, as soon as he mentioned diving, they said he had a PFO and should stop diving. The 2 dives he had done were to 6m as we had aborted the 2nd dive early without even completing his skills. The water was 27/28 degrees so cold shouldn't have been a factor.

A few weeks later we were talking to a doctor who was amazed that he had been given a clean medical to dive because when you put together all of his physiological factors he probably shouldn't have been allowed. He was overweight - by quite a lot - was on 6 tablets twice a day including some very very strong pain killers and was generally unfit. The symptoms that he had after his dive could also be attributed to an overdose of his strong pain killers and there may be a coincidence in the fact that when he reduced his dosage he felt generally better. We never went back into the water to test this at depth though. So, we now had 2 possible causes for his diving problems and that the matter was closed:
-PFO (never tested for one)
-Strong pain killers that were affected by depth

He has never dived since but, when he was in for surgery on his back a few months ago they found a large aortic aneurysm. Whether this caused his problems underwater, or was caused BY his diving we don't know but he is likely to have to have it operated on quite soon due to the size and speed that it is growing. All we know is that had he been properly tested when he came back from his diving problem that he could have been properly diagnosed with a PFO, or his aneurysm could have been found sooner.

It all goes to show, everyone is different and there are many things in the human body that can affect you as you dive.

[Coldhands]

Oh no! Hope you get underwater again soon.