I took my friend with me to Cancun to get her OW. We did six dives over the coarse of three days. Two were shallow at 30 feet, and the rest were between 50 and 80.
We waited 24 hours after our last dive before we flew. She was in a lot of pain the day we flew but all I knew of was the headache she had so I thought it was nothing.
Then, when she got back, she got skin blotches, nausea, was tired, her joints hurt, and she had the general feeling that she was out of it. The skin blotches went away but the general feeling of being out of it, and the pain got worse.
Well, yesterday, seven days after we last dove, she went to the hospital and they told her she has DCS. However, they said it is too late to go into a hyperbaric chamber and that too much time had passed. I thought that the only way to cure DCS is to put someone under pressure?
So the question is, should she be in a hyperbaric chamber or is it possible for too much time to pass for that to be of any help?
I was also curious if waiting 24 hours after diving okay to fly, or should it really had been 48 hours?
We waited 24 hours after our last dive before we flew. She was in a lot of pain the day we flew but all I knew of was the headache she had so I thought it was nothing.
Then, when she got back, she got skin blotches, nausea, was tired, her joints hurt, and she had the general feeling that she was out of it. The skin blotches went away but the general feeling of being out of it, and the pain got worse.
Well, yesterday, seven days after we last dove, she went to the hospital and they told her she has DCS. However, they said it is too late to go into a hyperbaric chamber and that too much time had passed. I thought that the only way to cure DCS is to put someone under pressure?
So the question is, should she be in a hyperbaric chamber or is it possible for too much time to pass for that to be of any help?
I was also curious if waiting 24 hours after diving okay to fly, or should it really had been 48 hours?