Have you gotten bent?

[aainslie]

I'm curious. It's anonymous, so please answer truthfully. I suspect WAY more people have gotten bent than like to admit to.

...Which would make that speaker on the other thread rather ho hum...

If you've been bent several times please just indicate the most serious event.

[MengTze]

Need more options...

Yes; both 1 AND 2
Yes; 1, but treated it myself.
No; but I plan to

[atedeschi]

what about a maybe answer? aka some symptoms, but not 100% and didn't go to the doc. :/

[newman_diver]

I had a suspected and did 2 treatments totalling 8 hours. Turns out I pulled my shoulder getting into the boat. Didn't have a ladder at the time so we had to climb up the leg and over the stern. That'll learn me.

[aainslie]

I'm trying to keep it simple. Freddy, as I say, report worst case. Self treatment is the same as non treatment IMHO - at least that's how I intended it. I'd treat "some symptoms but did nothing" as option 1, Ant. newman, I suppose I'd call yours a "no". Oh - and I'm assuming that no one who has a serious hit is dumb enough to sit at home hoping it disappears...

[MedCop]

I had a type 2 hit (vertigo, nausea, abd / back pain, blurred vision) August of 2008. It was an undeserved / unearned hit...I found out the hard way that I had a PFO. I had the PFO closed in November,and have since started diving again end of February.

[aainslie]

Interesting. So far, HALF the respondents have had some sort of incident. And I didn't even impose a limit on minimum nomber of cave dives.

Seems like "bent cave diver" is almost tautological.

[drtyjrzy]

I took a mild hit a year or two ago while diving OC here in Jersey, surfaced from the dive and felt the pain right away. The capt. of the boat, who is also a good friend of mine made me go on O2 and made me eat some asprin, at it's worst, I couldn't move my left arm and the pain was unbearable. After about two hours on O2, I was pain free.
While I was driving home, pain came back big time, went to the hospt. I work for, they transfered me to Jacoby in NYC, took a chamber ride there, problem solved. No lingering problems and I'm still diving, so thats good. My insurance picked up half the bill, DAN got the rest. In total it cost just under 30k USD. Two ER visits, Critical Care Ambulance ride, and the chamber.

Turns out my computer(vr3) pooped the bed, and I didn't have a BT with me so I was unsure how long I was down. After talking with the capt. we estimated I was down for a little over an hour at 80fsw, and made a direct assent to the surface. Not a good scene howeve you won't catch me without a backup timer anymore......I was not really thinking anything could go wrong on an 80ft wreck I had been on hundreds of times.
Paule

[sskasser]

Having been on the wreck hundreds of times, it didn't strike you as odd that you were making a direct ascent when normally you would have had to make a stop or two?

What sort of failure did you have on the VR3? Was it giving you erroneous information that you unknowingly followed, or did it bail on you and leave you to figure out a plan? If it's the first one, that's pretty scary!

[aainslie]

One interesting point - the percentage for no hits has been slowly trending upwards. Since the frequency with which you look at the board will be highly correlated with your inter-visit period (well, perfectly actually), which in turn are correlated with any given inter-visit period, one might infer from this that the more often you look at this board, the more likely you are to have been bent!