Seeking advice for recovering from DCS

[happy-diver]

Perhaps we should each take a pill for selective listening

 

[BoltSnap]

@happy-diver please read the first part of my last post. I have confirmed DCS from 3 doctors and DAN. If you have tips to share on recovery I’m interested.

You have a top expert from DAN talking with you here and you aren't happy and won't listen or acknowledge what they are telling you??? WOW.

 

[CuzzA]

Here's the tip. You shouldn't dive anymore. Your body can't complete the basic open water course without getting bent so odds are you'll get bent again, unless you figure out why you supposedly got bent during the basic open water course.

 

[jadairiii]

@happy-diver please read the first part of my last post. I have confirmed DCS from 3 doctors and DAN. If you have tips to share on recovery I’m interested.

I believe you should understand that your initial diagnosis was poor at best. They took your word for you being "bent" and tossed you in a chamber without doing any other tests, even simple blood tests or EKG. Every other doctor can only go on what you have told them.

Also understand, unlike a broken leg, there is very little "diagnosis" for DCS after the fact. Of the 3 doctors that "confirmed" your DCS, how many of them actually, physically, hands on, examined you? In a hospital or doctor's office?

And third, rather than asking the internet, why not ask the 3 doctors that told you you had DCS what their "tips" for recovery are?

But here, having had some minor hits, here are my best tips, (1) listen to your doctors and do what they say. (2) take up golf, if you did have a Type II hit, on your very first scuba dives, dont dive again.

 

[Bob DBF]

I appreciate everyone’s input however with all due respect I am not looking for a diagnosis.

And neither was I, It took two more trips to the ER before they found the underlying problem. It was masked by similar symptoms and the doctors (and specialists) involved stopped at their diagnosis and quit looking for anything else. It would have been a coin toss, or less, whether I made it to the ER in time if I was diving, which I was cleared for and doing during that time. YMMV.


Bob

 

[Duke Dive Medicine]

Multiple PMs sent to the OP.

Here's the tip. You shouldn't dive anymore. Your body can't complete the basic open water course without getting bent so odds are you'll get bent again, unless you figure out why you supposedly got bent during the basic open water course.

There is not enough information here to support that statement.

Best regards,
DDM

 

[Duke Dive Medicine]

I believe you should understand that your initial diagnosis was poor at best. They took your word for you being "bent" and tossed you in a chamber without doing any other tests, even simple blood tests or EKG. Every other doctor can only go on what you have told them.

Also understand, unlike a broken leg, there is very little "diagnosis" for DCS after the fact. Of the 3 doctors that "confirmed" your DCS, how many of them actually, physically, hands on, examined you? In a hospital or doctor's office?

And third, rather than asking the internet, why not ask the 3 doctors that told you you had DCS what their "tips" for recovery are?

But here, having had some minor hits, here are my best tips, (1) listen to your doctors and do what they say. (2) take up golf, if you did have a Type II hit, on your very first scuba dives, dont dive again.

Some good info here save for the advice to not dive again. There is not enough information in this thread to support that statement. The probability of DCS is not zero when diving, and it does not increase with successive dives, though a DCS case on a supposedly benign OW checkout dive would be cause for further investigation. I do think that some information is missing here and have been corresponding with the OP via PM.

Best regards,
DDM

 

[jadairiii]

... save for the advice to not dive again.
DDM

That last comment I made was a bit sarcastic and it had nothing to do regarding statistical re-occurrence, more of just bad luck. If I did a parachute jump for the first time and broke both my legs, I think I would abstain from jumping again......just saying....