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Pegmitchel@ao*.co* wrote: > Following the thread on PFO/ deco sickness, any comments on Mitral Valve > Prolapse? This is a common valve problem, particularly in women, but I have > not heard it associated with DCS. I asked some medical personnel in dive > industry & they did not think it was a problem in diving. Folks, I can actually comment on this problem from a position of (sort of) knowledge. I am now (sob, just passed the half way point) 58 and until about three years ago had always had a problem when people listened to my heart. They tended to suggest that I had had Rheumatic fever in my youth (very bad) that I had a defective heart, that I should be _very_ careful about my heart and so on and so forth. Both my parents were Doctors (General Surgeon and Anaestheist respectively) and they would have known, so I battled through somehow. Fact of the matter is that I played pretty high standard squash and Rugby, in particular, in my youth, before I had to take medicals and, yes, also Scuba diving. About three (?) years ago I developed some kind of bug in my bloodstream fortunately diagnosed very early and it meant that I was hospitalised overnight (the first time in my life since I was born) for six whole weeks. Not because I was that ill but because I needed huge and regular hits of penicillin and some other drug I can't now remember the name of. Not a pleasant time. During the course of this they also seriously checked out my heart, because this is where the bug would have done its major damage and found that all this time I had a mitral valve prolapse, a heart defect _from birth_. This is what all those Doctors, since I was about 20, had agonised and theoretised over and, in so doing, caused me untold bother. I don't keep a log book, they were non existent when I first learned to dive all that long ago, there'd have to be the odd thousand or five and I'm still happily exhaling bubbles. Actually I wrote on this once before, and I think it was on this forum, but my ancient brain plays tricks on me and I am the world's worst at finding archives. You're welcome to get back to me privately if you would like further information, if I can provide it. Mitral Valve Prolapse Divers unite, Christian -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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