Unbelievable!
After a weekend doing my PADI Rescue Diver course, I got home on Sunday and start feeling pretty tired. Well... I had been pretty busy! The next day, I'm up and off to the office, still feeling absolutely exhausted, and now I've got a throbbing headache and my shoulders are hurting. OK, so I must be really exhausted.
Monday evening, I get home and at about 7pm there's a sudden fever and my eyes are burning. Now, I've had fevers before, but the burning eyes thing is new, the headache is still there and my shoulders are still aching. For the first time, I start thinking about DCS. I decide that it's unlikely given the type of diving I had done and decide to sleep it off
Yesterday morning I am feeling like death warmed up, so I call my dive club and explain how I'm feeling. My instructor suggests that, as a precaution, I call the London Diving Chamber, so I do. The nurse asks me a load of questions about my symptoms and my dive profiles over the weekend. She then suggests that I get down there asap to speak to the doctor. An hour later, I am with the diving doctor who is runs me through a series of tests before announcing that he is going to "pop" me. For 6 hours.
So, I pick a John Grisham novel and settle in for 6 hours inside the chamber. It's a long 6 hours but after only a few minutes at 60ft, my shoulders are feeling good and the headache is gone. At the end of the session, I am up and about but the fever is starting to come back. I get home and am in bed by 8:30pm and sleep through until 7am. The fever is with me most of the night and I am drinking tons of water.
So today, I am back off to the chamber for the first of a series of 100 minute recompressions.
After a weekend doing my PADI Rescue Diver course, I got home on Sunday and start feeling pretty tired. Well... I had been pretty busy! The next day, I'm up and off to the office, still feeling absolutely exhausted, and now I've got a throbbing headache and my shoulders are hurting. OK, so I must be really exhausted.
Monday evening, I get home and at about 7pm there's a sudden fever and my eyes are burning. Now, I've had fevers before, but the burning eyes thing is new, the headache is still there and my shoulders are still aching. For the first time, I start thinking about DCS. I decide that it's unlikely given the type of diving I had done and decide to sleep it off
Yesterday morning I am feeling like death warmed up, so I call my dive club and explain how I'm feeling. My instructor suggests that, as a precaution, I call the London Diving Chamber, so I do. The nurse asks me a load of questions about my symptoms and my dive profiles over the weekend. She then suggests that I get down there asap to speak to the doctor. An hour later, I am with the diving doctor who is runs me through a series of tests before announcing that he is going to "pop" me. For 6 hours.
So, I pick a John Grisham novel and settle in for 6 hours inside the chamber. It's a long 6 hours but after only a few minutes at 60ft, my shoulders are feeling good and the headache is gone. At the end of the session, I am up and about but the fever is starting to come back. I get home and am in bed by 8:30pm and sleep through until 7am. The fever is with me most of the night and I am drinking tons of water.
So today, I am back off to the chamber for the first of a series of 100 minute recompressions.
