What kind of sickness keeps you from diving?

[bwerb]

I'm curious,

Other than completely not being able to breathe from a sinus cold or similar, are their any sicknesses or conditions which either prevent you from diving or you would recommend as a total 100% counter indication to diving?

So...question in a different manner...when should I use better judgement and decide not to dive even though I really want to? What conditions really make the decision for me?

 

[cudachaser]

Stuff intestinal...vomitting. Fevers...loss of tolerance to cold...Acute hangovers, headache nausea and all of the above

 

[connora]

How soon after chemo can you dive again?

 

[bwerb]

scubadoc once bubbled...
There is some information on this web site

Thanks!

 

[SubQ]

hi connora,

It depends on the kind of chemotherapy you are recieving. I am recieving bleomycin which is currently a contra-indication to ever diving again. This is for a great part due to the fact that they do not know how long lung damage persists. I have heard of people diving and doing fine. That is why I am still active in finding information and maybe solutions. I recommend that you post another question on the board (start a thread maybe) and be specific about the kind of medication you are recieving.
I hope you will get to dive again real soon! In the case of bleomycin, I would be interested in sharing information with you.
Good luck!

subq

 

[scubazoo]

While I am not in the medical field, I am currently a Hodgkins Stage IV survivor AND diver. My treatment was 6 cycles of ABVD in 2010. My post PFT and CT tests were good and told the doctor I am going diving. Been on 4 Aggressor trips, doing all the dives WITH Nitrox 32% to 34%. Deepest to date is 115ft. BTW, during treatment I formed blood clots in the lungs.

My advice to those who have received bleomycin is to do the obvious checks but go diving and have fun! I even talked to DAN and they stated after 6 months (assuming all else ok) one should be good (including a chamber ride if needed).

To those in the medical field, thank you. But update your websites that state no diving, period; and please stop scaring folks from diving. There have been no recorded diving incidents from bleomycin and diving.

 

[dmoore19]

This is a 10 year old thread, magically brought back to life.

However, the sickness that keeps me from diving happens when I look at my bank balance, it makes me sick.

 

[Insta-Gator]

Pneumonia seems to have a chilling effect on my dive activity.

 

[MaxBottomtime]

I had a friend who felt much better while diving in a weightless state while she was dying from cancer. She took a trip to the Galapagos a month before she died.

 

[dmoore19]

If I was diagnosed with a fatal disease I would want to take one more dive trip, a check by a box on the bucket list.