Chest pain

[Bigwal]

hi all new to this forum
Right then let’s start in Feb of this year went on a diver experience day done a dry dive in the chamber took us to 50m got there felt a pain in my chest thought nothing of it.been on a few shallow dives since I.e 17m dips then this Sunday got in the sea woohoo got to 31m and whollop pain in my chest again.i have seen a Dive doctor and seen my gp as well and been to hospital had an ecg done and full blood works both wer fine Dive was well in parameters as well no dcs/dci present the Dive doc and my doc think it’s reflux iv only had this when I’m goin deep has any one else heard of this or had this my chest is still a bit tender
Many thanks to all that reply

 

[hammet]

My 35 year old brother was thrown out of the ER 3 times before they actually decided to do cardiac catherization where they found a blocked artery. 3 stents and a bypass later...

 

[Altamira]

You should probably see a Cardiologist now that you have visited a dive doc and GP. A Cardiologist will likely schedule a chest CT scan and/or a nuclear stress test before going the heart cath route.

 

[Bigwal]

Got an appointment with a a professor in June who is a heart specialist but he does diving Medicine so will go from there

 

[Duke Dive Medicine]

Immersion can aggravate reflux but I've never heard of chamber diving doing it, and it probably wouldn't cause your chest to remain tender for three days. It sounds like it's correlated with increased pressure, which suggests that there could be an air pocket somewhere in your chest. A high-resolution CT would probably find it. A cardiologist visit would also be reasonable.

Best regards,
DDM

 

[Bigwal]

Thank s for the reply I’m back at my doctors this week I’m asking for a ct scan as iv still got a bit of pain but what I did forget to say was that I lifted a 30 kilo weight on sea bed with 1 arm to move shot line so I’m thinkin that iv pulled a muscle or 2 in me chest but I, going to get everything checked out as had ecg and blood done and both wer fine

 

[Duke Dive Medicine]

Thanks for the update. It's still interesting that the pain came on when going to pressure.

Best regards,
DDM

 

[Bigwal]

Been back to docs he give me another full checking over and sent me for a chest X-ray no news on that result yet but he did say if I don’t hear anything all is good iv also done a Dive to 21m and not a prob at all no pain

 

[Bigwal]

Follow up from chest x-ray chest was totally clear no to report on that side but still feel little niggles now and then so pass as to what is going