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Saturday I went freediving with a buddy. Did a series of pulldowns on a weighted line to increasing depths, starting at about 10m and ending up at around 25m. The number of dives, I'm estimating were between 5-10 or so, I'm not sure of the exact number. Each time it was a relatively slow pulldown followed by a relatively quick finning ascent (mistake #1, I think).
On my final dive to 85ft, I found some blood in my spit, and called it a day. Shortly thereafter I became fatigued, but chalked it up to the exertion of the dives. Then a few hours afterwards, my right ear became numb. This really freaked me out, as I didn't know what was causing it. It lasted about 10 minutes or so, but I did some poking around on the 'net and discovered that I may have been suffering DCS. I was a little tingly in my extremities intermitently. Plus a knee I've recently injured is a bit stiffer than it was pre-dive...
The next day the symptoms didn't improve too much, so I went to a local hospital with a docompression chamber on site. They did x-rays of my chest (looked ok), and after a few hours concluded that I didn't require recompression in the chamber, their reasoning being since I wasn't scuba diving it wasn't DCS. They scheduled an appointment with chest doctor for next week to check out the suspected barotrauma.
My question is, my symptoms are still mild but persisting after 48 hours. Fatigue wise, I feel better, but the tingles still persist to a degree. What should I do? Frankly, I'm a bit freaked out...
Saturday I went freediving with a buddy. Did a series of pulldowns on a weighted line to increasing depths, starting at about 10m and ending up at around 25m. The number of dives, I'm estimating were between 5-10 or so, I'm not sure of the exact number. Each time it was a relatively slow pulldown followed by a relatively quick finning ascent (mistake #1, I think).
On my final dive to 85ft, I found some blood in my spit, and called it a day. Shortly thereafter I became fatigued, but chalked it up to the exertion of the dives. Then a few hours afterwards, my right ear became numb. This really freaked me out, as I didn't know what was causing it. It lasted about 10 minutes or so, but I did some poking around on the 'net and discovered that I may have been suffering DCS. I was a little tingly in my extremities intermitently. Plus a knee I've recently injured is a bit stiffer than it was pre-dive...
The next day the symptoms didn't improve too much, so I went to a local hospital with a docompression chamber on site. They did x-rays of my chest (looked ok), and after a few hours concluded that I didn't require recompression in the chamber, their reasoning being since I wasn't scuba diving it wasn't DCS. They scheduled an appointment with chest doctor for next week to check out the suspected barotrauma.
My question is, my symptoms are still mild but persisting after 48 hours. Fatigue wise, I feel better, but the tingles still persist to a degree. What should I do? Frankly, I'm a bit freaked out...
