Scuba diving with lyme

I'm pretty sure my doctor(s) will likely say, "I don't know" or "no" to be on the safe side... One of them would just say "no" even if she doesn't know because she doesn't ever not "know"

Thank you very much Maui! That stinks! Certainly not what I wanted to hear, but appreciate it nonetheless. :(

Anyone else have a different experience?

Delmar, she had her email address available, why don't you email her and politely ask about the experience?

No matter what she says about it, please do be very, very careful!! Remember, each of us is very different!

Ha ha ha!! thank you for your kind words! I worry a lot about the members here! I even have nights where I don't sleep well worrying about someone here!

Hey there Mom of 2! Thanks for your reply. I will be on the safe side. Thank you :)

I have been off abx a few days - I'm hoping to stay off and continue with herbal and alternative treatment. But Lord knows I will likely be on some type of treatment for at least another year. So I am curious about doing this...

I definitely wouldn't go if I was still loaded up on a bunch of abx, or if I have to go back on the abx. But... I suppose herbs could have an affect as well.

We'll see.
I want to hear back from okmom and see what her experience was with this. I have nothing set in stone, or even planned. It was just a thought... My husband really wants to go, and we're going down to the keys in a few weeks... Just really want us to be able to go do something fun!!

My remaining symptoms are mainly joint pain - knees primarily, faint bone pain - mainly shins, and afternoon fatigue. I occasionally get a muscle twitch, or some other little twinges of pain - but nothing like before - everything is much less pronounced. I'm sleeping so well too, which I think has helped a lot.

I have a had a few days of basically no symptoms, and that's an amazing feeling!!

Ill keep you posted.

Thanks for weighing in. I really appreciate your advice!

Post Edited (Delmar) : 10/27/2014 1:20:31 PM (GMT-6)

I don't know yet. I've heard of a couple of very shallow wreck dives with great visibility so I'd probably go for something like that.

I've never done a night dive - my husband LOVES them - I wouldn't like not being able to see what's under me or beside me or in front of me or above me ...... Lol!!

Cozumel Mexico is where I did my open water certification, and we did like 5-6 open water dives that trip. It was amazing! Diving around here probably won't be anything like Cozumel, but it would still be fun.

I'm very interested - What happened to your husband?

Night dive in the keys. Once upon a time, I was doing my check out dives with a boyfriend. We met other divers at the resort getting their certs for a verity of different levels and specialties. We clicked with another couple getting their navigation and night cert. They asked if we would like to join them on a night dive. Our dive master said we could go based on how well we did our cert dives. She said to just stay close to the more experienced divers.

Now it's night time and we head out. As we descend I noticed that our boat is a V haul. We are following the other divers very closely as instructed. It was so beautiful! So many creatures that you never see in the daylight. We were weaving in between the reefs, mesmerized by the critters. I see a fish on my left that looks like it has a dog's face, really big eyes. At night you see nothing but blackness except where your light is.

I check my air level and I'm close to half. I signal the others it's time to head back. We all agree and turn around. We are following, enjoying the scenery. Then I notice the same dog faced fish again. The problem is, it's still on my left! I checked my air and I'm running low. We see a mooring line and ascend. The bottom of the boat attached to the mooring line is NOT a V haul, it's a tri-haul. Oh crap! We surface and talk to the boat captain. We gave her the name of the boat we were on and she says "that's my husband's boat. He's 2 miles in that direction" None of us had enough air to make the 2 swim back. The captain radioed our boat to come pick us up. In the mean time she leaves. Here are four people with eight legs dangling in the water our lights pointed on our heads so we don't get run over, in the middle of the night waiting for another boat to come get us.

Lesson learned!

I'll get to the other story after dinner.

You have to tell me your stories too:)

Two weeks before we got married I had all our dive gear tuned up.

Second story:
My husband and I are on our honeymoon in Cozumel. We are having a grand time! We planed a night dive on Wednesday and then flying over to the mainland to Chichen-itza the next day.

My husband had never been on a night dive before and I had never been on a drift dive before. Well sure enough, it was a night drift dive. It was a wonderful night, crystal clear sky, a full moon and only 3 to 4 foot swells.

The captain/dive master told everyone on the boat to don their gear while the crew was anchoring the boat. all of us were ready to go and the captain turned of the engine. Someone yells out, "I hear a leak". It was my husband's regulator. When it was tuned up the high pressure seal wasn't seated properly, hence the leak. The captain gave my husband a reg and told him it's functional but the coupling to the BC is broken. You have to hold them tightly together to get the BC to inflate. My husband had been diving for 17 years and felt he had it under control.

I asked my husband if he was ready, everything was good to go. I went first trying to catch up to the rest of the group. I look behind me for my husband and I can't find him. I start swimming against the powerful drift current, sucking up my air. All my gear is hot pink, you can see me a mile away. All of my husband's gear is grey and black, he's blending in. I can't find him anywhere, I'm really freaking out.

We finally find each other and I want up. I'm too upset to enjoy the dive. Although I did see a couple of beautiful octopi. When we surfaced he removed his reg for a brief second and said what sounded like "I'll tell you latter". I don't know what's going on but he seems very stressed.

The boat arrives and he went up before me onto the boat. That was very odd. He starts taking off his gear and in the light of the moon I can see something is wrong with his face. There was not enough light on the boat at night to get a good look, but something was wrong. I asked him why he wasn't right behind me when we entered the water. He explained his fin came loose and had to adjust it. Next thing he knew with the strong current, everyone was far away. He did a rapid descent and got a mask squeeze. It blew all the capillaries under his mask. He didn't have any white left in his eyes. They were solid black. He was really freaky looking!!

I asked why he was in such a hurry to get on the boat. When he took the reg out to talk to me, he actually said "I'm not going to make it!" My hearing is not so good. He wasn't able to get the BC to inflate and he kept dropping like a stone. It took everything he had to keep his head above water. I was so angry at him. Why he didn't drop his weights is beyond me.

Everything turned out okay. The Dr at the resort gave him blood thinners to help out his eyes and face. The next day we flew over to Chichen-itza to enjoy an uneventful day. The fight was interesting. It was so hot and muggy and asked if the plane had air conditioning. The guide was funny, he said wait till we get moving. Well, I thought we needed to wait for the plane to move so we could get AC. As it turned out, once we were in the air, the pilot opened the cockpit windows, air conditioning!


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