MiddlePilot
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Hi, I wanted to share an experience. This happened during a CCR class. I use a JJ CCR, lungs are on the high setting and I have a suit inflate strapped to the wing.
For some reason the gas felt a bit heavier than usual, but that was my first time to under 50m so I thought that was maybe normal, I do not know if this is related. The gas was appropriate, it was 16/45 for the diluent.
Visibility was 20+m and perfect, water was about 15C I had appropriate undergarnments, no currents and we were not swimming hard although I was feeling very unfit this week as we had long days. (on the two previous days, I felt like I was possibly coming with a cold as I was out of breath after the long dives we did)
Right before an ascent, it felt a bit harder to breathe but because we had long days I thought it was the tiredness. We did an ascent and stayed at 9 then 6m, I think I didn't see a different for the first half a hour. 10 minutes before the stops where finished I think the shortness of breath increased and I thought that maybe I had a bit of asthma for some reason and because we had very long dives the previous days I thought that was probably the cause (in retrospect I should have bailed out immediately).
As we were getting close to the last minutes I felt like it was harder to get breaths but then the stops were nearly finished.
Once ascending to the surface, it felt actually much worse and I think I had asthma so I told the instructor to help me to get on the boat, at this point I couldn't get full breaths without wheezing (this felt like asthma, I am asthmatic).
I got help on the boat, got some Ventolin but it took me maybe 20 minutes to get my breathing to a reasonable rate, I was still coughing and has mucus production (similar to Asthma).
The next day I had still light cough and asthma.
I am not sure what this means, and I will see a hyperbaric doctor specialist (the same than the one who sign my fit to dive medicals). I read about IPO but I am not sure how you could differentiate this from asthma and I am not sure whether this could be CO2 hit that triggered my asthma. I never had such violent asthma appearing in such a short amount of time.
The thing I feel really stupid is that I should have bailed out immediately as it could be CO2, maybe I felt pressured because this is a class but that was clearly the wrong decision.
Tagging @Duke Dive Medicine as I have seen that he is a helpful person.
For some reason the gas felt a bit heavier than usual, but that was my first time to under 50m so I thought that was maybe normal, I do not know if this is related. The gas was appropriate, it was 16/45 for the diluent.
Visibility was 20+m and perfect, water was about 15C I had appropriate undergarnments, no currents and we were not swimming hard although I was feeling very unfit this week as we had long days. (on the two previous days, I felt like I was possibly coming with a cold as I was out of breath after the long dives we did)
Right before an ascent, it felt a bit harder to breathe but because we had long days I thought it was the tiredness. We did an ascent and stayed at 9 then 6m, I think I didn't see a different for the first half a hour. 10 minutes before the stops where finished I think the shortness of breath increased and I thought that maybe I had a bit of asthma for some reason and because we had very long dives the previous days I thought that was probably the cause (in retrospect I should have bailed out immediately).
As we were getting close to the last minutes I felt like it was harder to get breaths but then the stops were nearly finished.
Once ascending to the surface, it felt actually much worse and I think I had asthma so I told the instructor to help me to get on the boat, at this point I couldn't get full breaths without wheezing (this felt like asthma, I am asthmatic).
I got help on the boat, got some Ventolin but it took me maybe 20 minutes to get my breathing to a reasonable rate, I was still coughing and has mucus production (similar to Asthma).
The next day I had still light cough and asthma.
I am not sure what this means, and I will see a hyperbaric doctor specialist (the same than the one who sign my fit to dive medicals). I read about IPO but I am not sure how you could differentiate this from asthma and I am not sure whether this could be CO2 hit that triggered my asthma. I never had such violent asthma appearing in such a short amount of time.
The thing I feel really stupid is that I should have bailed out immediately as it could be CO2, maybe I felt pressured because this is a class but that was clearly the wrong decision.
Tagging @Duke Dive Medicine as I have seen that he is a helpful person.
