Failed Spirometry Test :(

[DocVikingo]

It is good that you are fit and have had no known history of pulmonary disorder. However, this does not mean you cannot have such and your spirometry results appear to suggest airway disease of some sort. The chest x-ray reading of possible bronchial thickening needs to be further investigated.

And ixnay on the igarettescay, orevermorefay ; )

Regards,

Doc

 

[DocVikingo]

I was unaware that a medical is a requirement in Australia.

Dive physicals for those seeking basic open water cert/referrals have been a requirement under Australian Standard AS4005-1 since 1992. Certain other divers also must meet this Standard.

Regards,

DocVikingo

 

[Sas]

I'm not overweight. I weigh 80 kgs. I recently quit smoking. I'm guessing this is my own fault if smoking has something to do with it

When I did my medical (yes they are required in Australia, and usually this involves going to a GP that can do dive medicals) my results for the spirometrey weren't great, though enough to pass the medical, but I was questioned on that. I had asthma as a child and had quit smoking a few years before. The doctor said it was most likely to be the smoking... He said it would improve over time too so if it turns out you fail the specialist exam, you might have to wait a few years I guess until your lungs recover a bit?

 

[danvolker]

For now, why not try Freediving?
For 60 foot reefs, you don't need no stinking scuba tanks

DanV

 

[Raz2097]

Well I went to see the specialist. I had to do the spirometry test again. This time round I did much better and he passed me. I'll be diving in Fiji in 2 weeks!!
Thanks for all the input, it's greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Raz

 

[danvolker]

Well I went to see the specialist. I had to do the spirometry test again. This time round I did much better and he passed me. I'll be diving in Fiji in 2 weeks!!
Thanks for all the input, it's greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Raz

Raz,
Just so you know, Fiji has some spectacular diving for freedivers...When my wife and I went to Fiji ( about 3 years ago) we stayed at the Beqa Lagoon Resort...diving is for scuba divers, which of course Sandra and I are..but, a huge number of the dive sites had pinnacle structures about 100 feet in diameter, that went from around 80 feet deep, all the way up to about 5 feet from the surface. The entire wall surface of these pinacle structures is covered in corals and anenomes, and fish. A snorkeler would miss nothing. A freediver is in heaven here....I liked it so much I had to freedive close to half the time, just because you could never find freediving like this anywhere else...

So, as a FYI, if you begin to develop some asthma durring the dive trip, the danger from snorkeling/freediving I would expect to be nil ( unless you actually need an inhalor to breathe----but then I would not expect you to be posting here)...and this would allow you to miss NOTHING!!!!
Regards,
DanV