Who is diving after Covid?

[chillyinCanada]

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There has been a massive cleanup on this thread.

The topic of this thread is have you had covid and been diving since, what was your outcome.

Opinions on covid protection measures have been and will be deleted.

There may be some leeway with regard to considering the consequences of diving with covid damage to your lungs.

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[FF / EMT]

If you have Covid, stay positive, if you think you have Covid,
Don’t group hug the ones you love.
I’ve tech dived/ dove post Covid.

 

[Wibble]

If you have Covid, stay positive, if you think you have Covid,
Don’t group hug the ones you love.
I’ve tech dived/ dove post Covid.

Me too. And I didn't consult a doctor

 

[BlueTrin]

Especially with the evidence about Covid and lung damage and Covid and micro clotting issues. One of the things that can cause an air embolism is gas being trapped in the lungs on ascent - scarring or a clot could do just that. And the clotting at least has been documented to happen even in some asymptomatic people. Treating it as "just a cold" and not getting cleared before diving seems like asking to have your own thread here sooner or later - the damage does appear to be cumulative if you get reinfected.

So I didn’t get a test that would check for a clot. Did anyone who got asymptomatic got checked for clot by a doctor to get signed off?

 

[Germie]

The question would be better is it was: Did you do technical diving with covid?

Seriously, I think I had covid (not sure, I only did a selftest which is not trustable). I had to do 2 decompressiondives (50m, 20minutes deco), and awoke with a sore throat. Nothing serious, I was not ill, had the day before very hot food with a lot of peppers. So that caused the sore throat I thought.
So did the 2 dives, no problems at all. Then we went to a restaurant for some after dive food which tasted well and then I drove home. Still had a sore throat, a really sore throat, but I was fit and not ill. Could do sports, only had a sore throat.
At home I remembered I had 1 selftest left (we got 2 free from government and I decided never to waste money on tests, used the first in some drinks to try to get it positive), and yes, it was positive after a few seconds.
I called my dad, I visitied him last week and he also had a cold (nose blocked, some sore throat, is in 70's),and he also had 1 free selftest left. Also that was positive. But he also was not ill. Had just a cold as he said.
After 3 days my sore throat was gone. So if I had covid, I was asymptomatic, fit and not ill, maybe had only a sore throat, but that was not an issue. But I will never know if I had it or not as we cannot test here without problems


I was really ill after the Johnson shot and the same after the Pfizer booster (got 2 shots in total). So for me the vaccines are more worse than the virus.

The first covid issues in 2020 were serious, now I really believe it is just a cold or less. I don't know anybody who got ill in the last 12months. Only a cold or nothing or just not completely fit. Nobody had problems to return to sports after 3-5 days. As with influenza, sometimes you are unlucky and it takes a few weeks, but for fit people normally it is nothing to be worried.

 

[BlueTrin]

@Germie i work in an large office where there was mandatory testing weekly up until recently.

There are here, in London, a lot of recent cases but mostly mild.

The number of people who tested recently positive in my office actually increased with the return to the office.

Some even got it multiple times in the last 3 months.

However I don’t know anyone personally who got it seriously with long term consequences in the last months.

EDIT: Oh I forgot a colleague and myself go sometimes on 25 mins deco dives, he tested positive during 2021 and got signed off for diving but never had any long term effects.

 

[chillyinCanada]

@Germie i work in an large office where there was mandatory testing weekly up until recently.

There are here, in London, a lot of recent cases but mostly mild.

The number of people who tested recently positive in my office actually increased with the return to the office.

Some even got it multiple times in the last 3 months.

However I don’t know anyone personally who got it seriously with long term consequences in the last months.

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[MAKO Spearguns]

First attempt at deep diving after my first bout with Covid. Not sure of the long term impacts.

 

[FF / EMT]

Anyone still sharing regulators for OOA drills or only simulating it for someone who had Covid?

 

[Marie13]

Anyone still sharing regulators for OOA drills or only simulating it for someone who had Covid?

Did full cave in MX a month ago. Still no reg sharing. I think that may still be TDI standards.