Being fit or overweight may have or not have much effect on getting DCS. I am not fit and overweight by a lot and so far, touchwood, luck has been on my side. Conduct of dive, post-dive and pre-dive has a lot to do with getting DCS. It would be a help if you could post the profiles here.

DCS symptoms can occur anytime between almost immediate to sometimes more than a week after a dive. To be safe, take him to the Armed Forces Hospital in Lumut, together with the dive profile, and let the Hyperbaric Medicine practitioners there have a look. Don't go to normal GP clinics please.

Remember, left untreated, it may be permanently damaging or fatal if the victim goes back diving, even with the absence of signs and symptoms.

i think numbers can be found in your logbook. 

i think it is the direct result of strainuous exercise after diving (i.e. volleyball),my cousin had a similar experience...Anis,my cousin during one of his OW dive ascended too fast but nothing happened on that day...thinking nothing is wrong he hit the gym once back in KL(he's a very atheletic fella,plays rugby)
3 weeks later he had a stroke,the doctor said bubbles sumhow manage to enter the brain
thankfully he recovered fully

Per session is about RM360. So a treatment of 6 sessions...multiply la.

please keep us posted and thanks for sharing. 

dun 4get to tell dr mustapha to join us at muw

yeah yeah...good idea. Get him to enroll on OW and join MUW at the same time 

Do update us on the progress of your brother, if possible, do post pictures or report on his treatment, if u feel like it lar..hhehehe..

20m to surface in a minute? with no safety stop? my thots wud be he fins up all the way from 20m..very dangerous..next time, he can try to practice multi-safety stops..lets say, 15 meter 1 minute, 12 meter 1 minute, 9 meter 1 minute, 5 meter 3 minutes..it will give more time for the nitrogen to desaturate from your body..oh, and try to be horizontal when performing ur safety stops..

if i'm wrong, please correct me

Hi Hafiz,

So glad to hear your brother's numbness has disappeared after treatment. That's probably a good sign. Don't worry, Hafiz.

Thanks for the update Hafiz..btw, how much does the treatment cost u?

U can refer on the instructions to upload photos HERE

Pretty unusual for DCS to carry on beyond 3 weeks. Firstly, its all about nitrogen gases in the bloodstream. Hence by now it should have cleared up. If it would have stayed so long, i don't think it is just merely numbness over the limbs. He would have had a major pulmonary embolism or even an ischaemia of the brain i.e. stroke. 

It may as well just be a coincidental symptom and since he just recently had a 'scare' of DCS, one is prone to relate this as cause and effect.

Nevertheless it is definitely a good idea to have a proper check up. And preferable not the GP as Seadaemon has pointed out.

   (just a thought)

nope it was definitely DCS...i too thought it was strange for it to surface after 3 weeks,

my cousin has a special condition(he has a hole in his heart) which led to cutaneous embolism(type 1 DCS aka skin bends,he had the whole rashes thing) due to quick tissue loading frm the hole(which probably accelerated frm the fast ascent)...since the gasses didnt come frm the arteries,off-gassing takes a different rate

once he hit the gym,the raised blood pressure encouraged bubble movement frm the venous side to the arterial side which led to the cerebral embolism(type 2 DCS i.e. stroke) its sumthing like pulmonary embolism(also type 2 DCS aka the chokes) but instead of effecting the circulatory system it went to the brain

im making a case study for him n cross-referenced his symptoms with some physiology books(a few related to diving) bcoz he wants to start diving again...n i want to help him so i needed to noe what happen to him the first time so i can prepare for him next time coz he'll b doing his refresher course under me(hopefully anywayz,we still need to convince his mom)

n dont bother asking who was his instructor to let him dive with his condition or the doctor who approved of his certificate of fitness to go diving coz i hav no idea but what i do noe is dat after the accident he went all the way to lumut to the hyperbaric treatment centre there and came back wit a bill saying his fit as anyone to go diving frm a certified physician n i wont stop any man to pursue his dream of diving,heck i encourage it

i just didnt want to bother wit the details b4 coz then i'd hav to give my oh so righteous speech(such as this,lol) coz i hate being known as a braggart

fyi...did u noe that the longest time ever recorded for DCS to occur is 36 hours(man,im could win the noble prize with this case study heheh)but he had a few symptoms b4 the stroke so im not sure it counts...the funny thing though is that he said he didnt felt any pain wen the symptoms occured thats why he disregarded it the first time,either he's lying or he has a high threshold towards pain i dunno

Pls make an appointment with a certified diving medical doctor(HAT lumut) and let them clear ur brother whether he is fit or not to dive..

all we'll be giving are just opinions..get professsionals opinions to confirm..

Dey gud to know your Bro is ok....we were talking about DCS signs & symptoms that night.....kabbbaaaam!
Just for references you can call Lumut Naval Base  oso DAN rep. ;)refer Dr.Halim Mohd. 0127070765

Dey gud to know your Bro is ok....we were talking about DCS signs & symptoms that night.....kabbbaaaam!
Just for references you can call Lumut Naval Base  oso DAN rep. ;)refer Dr.Halim Mohd. 0127070765

Hello, bro. Dr Halim is now in Miri somewhere. Hehehe. Now it's Mej Dr Yusof.

managed to get the photo. He is B&W shooter. So almost all of his photos are in B&W except underwater.



The chamber is big enough for two people laying down or 4 people in sitting position.