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I'm pretty sure I got some minor DCS after my last dive. I did 2 dives, the first to 60 feet, the second to 80, for about 30 minutes each in cold water. About 1.5 hours after finishing the second dive I started to get a deep, aching pain in my right shoulder joint. At the time I didn't consider DCS, so just went to sleep, and when I woke up in the morning the pain was mostly gone (I still had an occasional, very light ache in over the next 2 days, but much less intense than the previous shoulder pain). Didn't even consider DCS at the time (just thought I had a sore shoulder from working out or something like that), but now it seems likely after doing some research. I had no other DCS symptoms at all, just the shoulder pain, and the pain was not excruciating, just annoying/moderate. I did not recieve any treatment, as by the time I realised it was probably DCS, I was already symptom free, and it seemed like very mild DCS.
I was hoping to go diving again this weekend, again doing 2 dives down to roughly 60 feet. This will be 2 weeks after getting the bends. Does this seem like a safe/reasonable recovery time? I would make sure to be overly careful this time, ascending very slowly, and doing a good 5 minute safety stop.
I was hoping to go diving again this weekend, again doing 2 dives down to roughly 60 feet. This will be 2 weeks after getting the bends. Does this seem like a safe/reasonable recovery time? I would make sure to be overly careful this time, ascending very slowly, and doing a good 5 minute safety stop.