boomx5
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1mike1:Ok, I fully aknowledge that I understand that this forum or responses is fo "general discussion and educational purposes only. Information provided by members, moderators and/or health professionals is in no way intended to serve as actual individual medical advice, diagnoses, or to provide treatment plans." - Liability seems to be causing me to get a lot of blank answers; ok, here we go:
I'm fairly new to diving and I want to know whether or not I'm in trouble.
On Wednesday of last week me and my friends did a 60' and 80' dive (yes, in that order) and may have overshot the tables by about 10 minutes of nitrogen time. We were expecting the rentals to have computers, which they didn't so we aren't sure of our ascent speed either (although Im pretty sure we were slow enough).
Immediately following we all admitted to slight headaches that we attributed to little water, out in the sun, lugging gear and a fair amount of caffine. We started to worry when we got home and started to have a few other slight symptoms. I was overall fine as far as I could tell, but my friend complained of slight back pain and elbow pain. We called DAN, woke up a nice man who told us we should go in and sit in a decompression chamber and said he couldn't really say anything else and we might as well go. We went to the hospital and they told us it was a 4 hour wait to see and doctor and we had things to do....so we didn't. Called back DAN and said would anything really change if we gave it a night and he said no...
Yesterday my friend was still worried based on his elbow and went into the chamber for 3 hours. He says he is all better now. I had a few small trailing headaches over the past few days and a few other small pains. The question truly is is should I go in anyway and sit in the chamber? We didn't spend much time at all at 80 feet and I'm pretty sure everything is gone or waining that was caused by the dive. Does decompression go away completely with time? Do those nitrogen bubbles bubble away or if there is a slight problem that could be taken care of with the chamber be a permanent condition if I don't go?
Thanks a million!!!!
Mike Karp
Mike,
It would be nice if you posted some things like bottom time, average depth, mix you were using, etc...
Thanks,
