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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 20:53:07 -0400
From: wendell grogan <wgrogan@dc*.ne*>
Organization: @Home Network
To: "Michael J. Black" <mjblackmd@ya*.co*>
CC: Aquanaut Mail <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
Subject: Re: HEADACHES WHILE DIVING
Mike,
Hush, chill, go someplace and take a deep breath....
My advice is take a bottle of argonox- 20% O2 and 80% argon.  Find a
really deep wreck, and go for it.  OK?!
Try that, and come back Monday and let everyone know how it was.  BTW,
make sure you take alot of extra weights on your BC, the argon might
make you too buoyant!
Wendell G
Someone who stopped being a doctor wannabe when Gerald Ford was
President

"Michael J. Black" wrote:
> 
> OK Seeley, Milak, and other doc-wannabes,
> 
> You can put the textbooks down now, and state what you really know.
> Clinically, ibuprofen and aspirin both inhibit cyclo-oxygenase in
> the prostaglandin pathway (I'm not looking at a book guys), both
> interfere with platelet aggregation, both prolong bleeding time
> (in my clinical experience, about the same), and both can cause stomach
> ulcers especially in excessive doses.
> 
> As for diving, and the use of either aspirin or ibuprofen, I submit
> that moderation is the key.  And 800 mg every 4 hours is pretty
> damn excessive.  My guess is that most diving medicine physicians
> would frown upon this practice, but if you machismos need that much,
> or think you do, then maybe you should reconsider.  Excuse me if
> I chuckle just a little, thinking about "Slobitus," Type 1 Decompression
> Sickness, which even George admits to having had.  I wonder what long
> term effects you extreme divers are getting in your bones and in your
> central nervous systems, let alone the long-term effects you are getting
> from excess ibuprofen.
> 
> MJB
> 
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