After the CT scan showed nothing, I saw a the hyperbaric Doc an hour ago......His take is that the only thing that makes sense is a temporal lobe seizure --brought on by Oxygen toxicity --even though it was only a 100 to 110 foot dive, and I was on 33% nitrox, his experience with car accident victims they put in the chamber ( for burns, healing, whatever) are that sometimes the brain injuries will cause an ox tox event that triggers this temporal lobe seizure...and the memory lapse issue is a typical result of these.
He said if I had done the wreck on air, I probably would not have had any problems.....which is not to say he is giving me the green light to a 100 foot air dive
....now I need to see a neurologist, after I call DAN and chat with them over this....
So some of the idle thoughts bouncing around my in my head now....We know that high oxygen mixes ( Nitrox) will create super oxide free radicals in higher percentages than are ideal for our body/brains.....and that perhaps very high levels could precipitate an ox tox event... It would be my assumption that this is a chemical imbalance/poor equilibrium, as a result of the physical trauma of the crash 2 months ago....While the CT Scan shows no damage, it is not showing chemical equilibriums.....The blood work ups the Del Ray Trauma Ctr did showed nothing, but I am pretty sure this was just ;ooking for clotting issues, and nothing that would relate to the chemistry that would precede a temporal lobe seizure.
I would expect I will be "better", sooner, if I start supplementing more heavily with astaxanthin, with High Gamma Vitamin E, and maybe some High DHA Omega 3's...hoping this would help restore the proper equilibriums in my brain. I have also hear super oxide dismutase is effective for this, but it is one supplement I have never tried.
Any suggestions?