Lingering DCS Symptoms?

[Duke Dive Medicine]

Very much appreciate the input.
To clarify- I'd say at the time of discharge discussions, I was back to baseline-with the exception of some lingering anasarca and fatigue-which I attributed to the inflammatory cascad. 3-4 days of lasix and no more edema, and my vital capacity is improving. And even now, the amount of deviation from my baseline is very very small, but I notice it. And in fact the periods during each day wherein I really notice symptoms are diminishing.

I'm wondering if during the strenuous recreational dive 4 days prior, I had started to have subclinical DCS without realizing it, and the nitrogen load was just building over time. That's my prevailing theory for now, primarily because I want an explanation and because I don't want to be done with diving, recreational or technical. Though I suppose if I have to stick to recreational limits, so be it.

First chest CT was done prior to the first chamber treatment, and improved post treatment. I'll be looking into the possibility that I'm just chronically hypoalbuminemic, which would be odd (never had abnormal LFTs and I eat pretty well). I'll probably need to end up traveling to meet with a dive doc (I believe we have a few in RI but I'm not sure how many divers they really see.) Boston and NY are easy enough to get to.


Thank you for the well-wishes. I wanted to try and be as clear as possible as we are, after all, always learning when it comes to diving and dive related injuries.
For my fun dives (4 days prior) I was using my Peregrine on 45/85 (I believe these are factory settings).
For the remaining dives I was using a Perdix also on 45/85 with a matched Peregrine as backup. The exception being the final dive, wherein I changed both to 45/75.

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[scubadada]

...For my fun dives (4 days prior) I was using my Peregrine on 45/85 (I believe these are factory settings).
For the remaining dives I was using a Perdix also on 45/85 with a matched Peregrine as backup. The exception being the final dive, wherein I changed both to 45/75.

Do you have your end surface GFs?

 

[Jonnyola87]

Do you have your end surface GFs?

Unfortunately not.

 

[scubadada]

Unfortunately not.

Download to the Shearwater Cloud and you would have that and more.