I have no clue if this could really relate to freediving at all, but I'll just tell the story.
So it was sometime in july, I started to experience some major pain in the left half of my chest (especially during deep inhalations). I went to see the doctor, but as all the tests were OK and she couldn't find anything, she sent me to hospital observation.
I was there for a few days until I went through a CT scanner and they diagnosed something called lung consolidation.
Wikipedia describes it as follows.
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Consolidation is a clinical term for solidification into a firm dense mass. [See corresponding lexical definition[1] in National Library of Medicine's MedlinePlus Dictionary powered by Merriam-Webster (M-W) Online.] It is usually applied to a condition marked by induration[2] (swelling or hardening of normally soft tissue) of a normally aerated lung through accumulation of inflammatory cellular exudate in the alveoli and adjoining ducts. Consolidated tissue is radio-opaque, so that it is clearly demonstrable in X-rays and CT (computerized tomography) scans. [The clinically-oriented reader is directed to a PubMed search[3] for scholarly reviews on pulmonary consolidation in different diseases.] Consolidation is often a middle-to-late stage feature/complication in pulmonary infections.
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Consolidation (medicine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
My hospital doctors said the pain goes away by itself as the tissue slowly resolves. And it eventually did, only after a couple of weeks.
They also said I shouldn't freedive for quite a while, as this could be caused by diving of any kind (but it could also be caused by something entirely different). I had had my last freediving trip about 4 or 5 days before I started to experience the pain, could this really be that it takes this long? Besides, the dives were as shallow as it gets (all in the 10m range). And it obviously wasn't a lung squeeze, was it?
Anyway, I started to dive again as soon as I didn't feel any pain anymore and it hasn't happened since then.
Just thought I'd ask if anyone of you knows something about this strange thing.
