On July 7, after my 4th day of diving in the Turks & Caicos, I developed joint pain in my right wrist approx. 3 hours after my last dive. During the first of my two dives that day, I had a rapid ascent warning from about 18ft. (the max depth on the dive was 114). I then had a long surface swim to the boat. On the second dive I had no incident but there was a considerable amount of current.
After feeling the wrist pain I went to the doctor who put me on Oxygen and gave me an aspirin. My pain decreased substantially but I still I then went to a chamber where after being put on more Oxygen, I was put on a US Navy TT5. After 10 minutes my joint pain was gone so after 2-3/4 hrs I was let out of the chamber.
The following day I had no pain in my wrist but I did have an achiness in other places, stiff neck and a tight feeling behind my knees. I called the dr. at the clinic and he told me it was called the niggles and would eventually go away over the course of a few weeks.
When I got home to NY I went to see a doctor who specialized in diving medicine and he didn't think that my symptoms were at all related to DCS. When I called him the following week to say that the symptoms seemed to be getting better he cleared me to dive again. However, the symptoms have not totally gone away. In fact, they seem to be recurring sporadically. I will feel some shooting pains in my fingers and hands from time to time as well as down my legs. My neck is still a bit stiff. The aches and pains seem to travel, not always showing up at the same place.
I also have pain in the same place that I had from an L5S1 disk herniation from several years ago. This hadn't bothered me for over a year until after I got out of the chamber. It could be coincidental.
Is this all part of the healing process or is this something that I should be worried about? Is there even anything that can be done at this point? When I spoke to DAN they said that at this point it would be too late to do anything more.
After feeling the wrist pain I went to the doctor who put me on Oxygen and gave me an aspirin. My pain decreased substantially but I still I then went to a chamber where after being put on more Oxygen, I was put on a US Navy TT5. After 10 minutes my joint pain was gone so after 2-3/4 hrs I was let out of the chamber.
The following day I had no pain in my wrist but I did have an achiness in other places, stiff neck and a tight feeling behind my knees. I called the dr. at the clinic and he told me it was called the niggles and would eventually go away over the course of a few weeks.
When I got home to NY I went to see a doctor who specialized in diving medicine and he didn't think that my symptoms were at all related to DCS. When I called him the following week to say that the symptoms seemed to be getting better he cleared me to dive again. However, the symptoms have not totally gone away. In fact, they seem to be recurring sporadically. I will feel some shooting pains in my fingers and hands from time to time as well as down my legs. My neck is still a bit stiff. The aches and pains seem to travel, not always showing up at the same place.
I also have pain in the same place that I had from an L5S1 disk herniation from several years ago. This hadn't bothered me for over a year until after I got out of the chamber. It could be coincidental.
Is this all part of the healing process or is this something that I should be worried about? Is there even anything that can be done at this point? When I spoke to DAN they said that at this point it would be too late to do anything more.
