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    My Wife Thinks I'm In My Office Doing the Books...

    I never would take such a beautifull thing in the water, i would sleep with it. Waw maybee i l'take a bath with it...
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    Surface Freak Out (kind of long-winded)

    i learned that Carotid-sinus reflex inducec a bradycardia,not a dyspnéa...difficulty to breath??? Of course heavy gear+bradycardia can cause some dysconfort. Heavy gear causes an extra workload and you will use accessory respiratory muscles to be able to breathe + reduced pulmonary...
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    another diving/exercising question

    The best thing to do ( to be as safe as possible ) is no exercise the day you will be diving. It is said in the litterature that you schould not exercise 6 houres befare and after a dive. In all cases if you feel tired for any reason( for example too much exercise the day before) DO NOT...
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    Nitrox instead of air for lower DCS risk?

    That is also true for nitrox hihihih
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    Nitrox instead of air for lower DCS risk?

    Well of course ifyou dive safe your risck of DCA is very low... But undesired DCS does ( rarely of course) but does happen, and some people doe have predisposing factors to DCS (PFO...) When a DCS accident occures on Nitrox this acident might be less severe. Post dive métabolic stress...
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    BC HOSE RIPS OFF---No Positive Buoyancy

    usually there is always a little of air in you BCD that can expand and help you to reach surface. I usually am trimmed out to be able to surface whyle " swymming to the surface " I could do it whithout a BCD and did it from 40 m as part of my 4 star training. In the dive fedration i am in...
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    Prolonged QT

    How is LQTS treated? Treatment for LQTS may include lifestyle changes, medicines, or surgery. Lifestyle changes If you are active in competitive sports, talk to your doctor about how this may affect your condition. Often, once treatment in started, patients with LQTS can participate in...
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    Prolonged QT

    People with this syndrome are susceptible to an abnormally rapid heart rhythm called Torsade des pointes. When this occurs, the heart muscle can't contract effectively, and the normal volume of blood is reduced to the body and the brain. If the brain is starved of oxygen, the person faints...
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    Nitrox/Time to Fly

    Well, more %o2 --> les N2--> equivalent depth is less important than with EAN 21%-->off gassing time is reduced and of course also time before flight. just use your dive computer(time before flight), deco software or decompression equation to verify it.
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    Need Medical advice

    Thank you.
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    Need Medical advice

    Hyperthiroidiais is due to an exces of thyroid hormones called T3 and T4. The most commom cause is Basedow Disease ( autoimmune disease where the thyroid is constantly stimulated by thyroid stimulating immunoglobines or IgG). Other causes are: Thyroide nodule(s) who are releasing without any...
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    Getting bent again...what's the story

    Many people do dive with unknow PFO... but DCS is not that frequent. If you get bent and having a PFO, Does it mean that the DCS is due to the PFO???????????
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    Getting bent again...what's the story

    Hum and what about PFO in 25 to 30% of the divers...?
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    Diving 1 month after minor operation

    When daily activities and sport is possible again, you will be all set for diving... Are you able to climb a ladder onto a boat after a diven carrying the heavy gear??? And you never know what might happen during a dive... You will be diving soon, you are the only one who will know...
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    Headache & Nausea

    headach might be a DCS symptom... but way a diver could not suffer a simple headach ( vasomotor migrain...) while diving. As said above everything is not dive related. :-) :-)
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    Concusions effects on diving

    There also may occure a post concussional syndrome and lead to headaches... And this without any brain contusion and/or extra dural hematoma. This persistant headaches in the context of a "simple" post concussional syndrome wil not lead to intracanial hi pressure or to epilpsie. this is not...
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    Hit by a Crown of Thorn - Ouch!

    TO my knoleg with those quind of venous injure the biggest problem is infection and residual "stange bodies" in the wound. Hot water or not hot water is not the key treatement in this particular case. But in some cases it is.
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    Hit by a Crown of Thorn - Ouch!

    Some venum protéines are denaturate dy heat, that is way it is told to drop the bitten body part in hot water. Spine venum is not denaturated by heat. For other venum ( eg. stone fish...) the venum is denarurated by heat. But do not forget heat also creates a vasodilation and increases the...
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    Working in Mallorca...

    In mallorca i know a place called Hotel CLub Punta Reina next to Clala Mandia Mallorca. They also have more than one location ( 3 to 4 diving clubs ) Club Punta Reina, Cala Mandia, Mallorca Don't have more info. =-):confused:
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