The Iceni
Medical Moderator
'fraid so!Diver0001:This is totally off topic but I noticed your name is Paul Thomas. Are you *the* Paul Thomas who had a pretty close call resulting from a PFO a couple of years ago?
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Back at work now after proving to the-powers-that-be that I had not turned into Fred Shipman and also back on line!
(In case our American readers have never heard of him, we Brits can claim to have the dubious honour of having had the worlds most prolific peace-time proven mass murderer listed as one of our doctors;- The late and never lamented Dr Harold (Fred) Shipman)
That business about crackly skin, quoted above, sounds a little bit too much like "surgical emphysema" due to pulmonary baraotrauma, rather than a simple skin bend, and certainly not the sort of thing to ignore or self-treat in recreational scuba. I would suggest that any rash after diving is DCI until proven otherwise - e.g. Jelly fish stings are clearly not.