Try dive DCS

[Robertbalogh]

Thank you for all the answers, it was very helpful and reassuring. I decided to wait a bit before getting all into it and seeking medical help as it really did not make much sense to attribute this to DCS and I know how I can get my mind focus on something too much. Since then the tingling is gone overall I feel ok (sometimes it comes back, but I suspect it is either something stuck near my shoulder blade or in my neck as I have same muscle tensions around these areas). Since then I already went through a mountain hike at 5000ft and two flights with no ill effects ( at least not diving related, I am 6'6" so every flight is a pain on its own ) so I think I will be fine.
Otherwise than that the experience itself was amazing, during the diving I did not feel any anxiety (actually it felt quite relaxing with all the bubbles and the fish around) so I am really considering signing up for some classes.

Oh yeah and as the age came up in one of the earlier answers I am 28.

 

[Diver0001]

Thank you for all the answers, it was very helpful and reassuring. I decided to wait a bit before getting all into it and seeking medical help as it really did not make much sense to attribute this to DCS and I know how I can get my mind focus on something too much. Since then the tingling is gone overall I feel ok (sometimes it comes back, but I suspect it is either something stuck near my shoulder blade or in my neck as I have same muscle tensions around these areas). Since then I already went through a mountain hike at 5000ft and two flights with no ill effects ( at least not diving related, I am 6'6" so every flight is a pain on its own ) so I think I will be fine.
Otherwise than that the experience itself was amazing, during the diving I did not feel any anxiety (actually it felt quite relaxing with all the bubbles and the fish around) so I am really considering signing up for some classes.

Oh yeah and as the age came up in one of the earlier answers I am 28.

It sounds to me like you are young and fit. At the age you are at I fell off a mountain (my fault, very sloppy). I think I initially fell about 10m before hitting the ground. I landed in such a way that may shoulder was dislocated and due to the impact I was rendered unconscious for a short period of time as I slid down the mountain from there. Fortunately I landed on a slope and not on a flat bottom. The worst part was having to walk for a day out of the mountains with this injury. The walk in seemed like a cake-walk by comparison.

The damage to my shoulder was severe (even though I played hockey, did Kung-Fu and was very fit). It took two years to be able to move it through a normal range of motion. Even now (25 years later) there are days that when I move it a particular way it "clicks", feels "stuck" and "hurts". That reminds me that some injuries never heal.... they only get better. In fact, the older you get, the more of a self defining truth this becomes.

Given what you said in this thread you are no stranger to sports related pain but paradoxically you self-diagnose as a hypochondriac. My (uneducated) guess is that your hypochondria is possibly related to unresolved traumas.

Any recognition to that?

R..

 

[Robertbalogh]

It sounds to me like you are young and fit. At the age you are at I fell off a mountain (my fault, very sloppy). I think I initially fell about 10m before hitting the ground. I landed in such a way that may shoulder was dislocated and due to the impact I was rendered unconscious for a short period of time as I slid down the mountain from there. Fortunately I landed on a slope and not on a flat bottom. The worst part was having to walk for a day out of the mountains with this injury. The walk in seemed like a cake-walk by comparison.

The damage to my shoulder was severe (even though I played hockey, did Kung-Fu and was very fit). It took two years to be able to move it through a normal range of motion. Even now (25 years later) there are days that when I move it a particular way it "clicks", feels "stuck" and "hurts". That reminds me that some injuries never heal.... they only get better. In fact, the older you get, the more of a self defining truth this becomes.

Given what you said in this thread you are no stranger to sports related pain but paradoxically you self-diagnose as a hypochondriac. My (uneducated) guess is that your hypochondria is possibly related to unresolved traumas.

Any recognition to that?

R..

Well in general when I have sport related injuries and pain, even in case of severe ones like the compound fracture of my forearm, where basically my arm was flipping around I am okay with them and pretty calm.

I believe my hypochondria kicks in when I am experiencing something not directly physical and visible and new. Like I don't exactly know how DCS feels and it is not something I can see so it makes me worry. You could say I am afraid of the unknown, but this applies only to health related thing and symptoms. In general I love to discover new things and I enjoy changes.

As for trauma, I cannot recall anything specific. However couple of years ago my girlfriend got in the hospital for a week with extreme dizziness and vertigo. We did not know what it is. It was kind of a stressful time and I even got a huge hit in my head that week which caused some unpleasant symptoms. All this resulted in developing panic attacks which took me over 2 years to resolve and completely get over with. However since my panic attacky time period I have these hypochondriac episodes and some things I never cared about make me worried. For example take off with a plane makes me anxious. During landing I am fine even if it is a roller coaster. So it is weird

 

[TMHeimer]

I believe it is either 18 or 22 feet where you can stay down indefinitely (air permitting...) and ascend directly to the surface.

 

[Stoo]

Pinched nerve, or imagination. As others have said, if you got bent with that profile, it must have been Divine Intervention.

Given your hike and flights after, I can guarantee you weren't bent.