As a preventative measure, when my buddies and I were doing a lot of tech diving, we would take ibuprofen (400 mg) prior to diving. The reasons were two fold, ibuprofen acts as a blood thinner so it hopefully would aid in moving any small bubbles in the blood stream into the lungs and not coagulating for filtering and second, it would reduce inflammation if you got a type 1 hit. We would also, on occasion, take 2 more (and lots of fluids, vip) when we got to the surface if the dive was overly strenuous, we just got lazy and blew off some deco or the deco was screwed up in some way. Big caveat, I am not a doctor, so don’t try this at home kids, this is what worked for me and my buddies and it may really screw you up! We also dove really high HE/low O2 mixes and did all of our deep stops, so our problems were always type 1. Don’t know if it would benefit free divers?
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