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Back in early 91 or so, I lived in Okinawa, Japan. Awesome diving, I was in the water constatnly. We would often do up to 6 dives a day on air, on computers. At the end of the night, we's be sitting by the camp fire, going, "damn, I must have gotten stung or something, I have this rash and itch". It was usually on my arms and such...now looking back I guess I was DCS 1...skin bent, and didn't know it. It never led to complications...and have never had it since. Sean -----Original Message----- From: MG <maling@i-*.co*.ph*> To: techdiver@aquanaut.com <techdiver@aquanaut.com> Date: Friday, June 25, 1999 5:09 AM Subject: Re: It is all gone...thanks >on the topic of skin bends, jess describes his case as "slobitis" which is >a "type of skin bends". my question is, what other types of skin bends are >there and the accompanying signs & symptoms? > >a short time ago, i had to treat a recreational diver who got skin bends. >he and his buddies had been diving for 6 straight days often pulling >100'/30m + dives in the morning followed by shallower pm dives. on the 6th >day of diving, he ran into the restaurant after a morning dive and said >that he thought he had skin bends. a rash had developed on his back and >chest and he felt popping sensations and mild pain in the areas of the >rash. he said that he got really concerned when his skin popped and some >blood (i did not directly observe this, btw) came out prompting him to run >in and seek treatment. > >after about an hour on 02, he said he felt fine, got up and walked away >refusing further treatment. > >"it was probably just a wet-suit rash," he said. > >i guess this illustrates how insidious skin bends can be because many >divers simply regard it as benign. > >his rash was reddish and very fine in texture - not like the stuff you get >when you're whacked by fire coral. it covered an area about 12"/30cm x >10"/25cm on his chest and back. > >thanks in advance for your responses. dive safe! > >m.g. ebro > > >At 06:49 AM 6/24/99 -0500, Jess Armantrout wrote: >>I again want to express my sincere thanks for the response to my recent >>posts. All of the gear has been spoken for at this time. There will >>probably be some more odds and ends as i continue to clean out the garage. >> >>Folks, let me again assure you, I am not getting out of diving. I have only >>sold about 1/3 of my gear (scary, huh?) and will be diving just as much as >>ever, just not so deep. I still have 3 sets of doubles, 2 scooters, 2 DUI >>drysuits and about a dozen stage bottles left (no, none of it is for sell so >>back off ;-) >> >>As some of you guessed, I got a minor DCS hit that shook me up. It was what >>we call slobitis and is a type of skin bends. It was on a (relatively) >>conservative dive that went well except it was deeper than expected (351'). >>The deco was still "correct", meaning I would do the same again. The >>screwup on my part was being pretty dehydrated from the exertion of getting >>to the site and setting up the dive. >> >>I am still convinced that the techniques and procedures that are continuing >>to be evolved by the wkpp are the best roadmap we have available and that is >>what I will continue to use. >> >>But that is only a contributing factor for my decision to back off. I have >>seen some awesome cave in the past three years, but have paid a huge price >>financially, physically mentally and in time. (My yard is a wreck!) Last >>year I spent over 10 grand on gear, 3 to 5 grand on dive related travel and >>took 4 weeks off without pay to do it. In short, for a poor working man >>with a wife who loves me, my priorities got a little out of whack. >> >>Anyway, I will still be around, and I will still be hammering the strokes, >>but I will try to do it in a kinder, gentler manner. >> >>Good luck to you all and let's go diving. >>Jess >> >>-- >>Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >>Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. >> >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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