Hi everyone,
I have joined this forum to try and search for answers, I have a long history and all I can do is pray that I might find some direction on this forum.
I am not a typical free diver, I hold my breathe and catch crayfish; I haven't had any training and possibly, that damage has been done.
I started free diving a year ago and would go to maybe 8m, 10m max and stay under only for 30 seconds, not much longer. One day a year ago now I was diving and I got really cold, I had also swallowed a lot of salt water due to dodgy snorkel. I remember burping a lot whilst trying to dive (and I still do this and I don't know why!). When I got back I got a bad chest infection and cough. It went away but when it did I was stuck with shortness of breath.
Everyday I can't breathe properly. I yawn a lot and try get the air in and sometimes it doesn't go in down into my lungs. Sometimes I can get it in but the more you force it sometimes the harder to take the deep breathe. Sometimes I feel like I am choking or being strangled and I have a constant wheezing noise from my throat. The other thing is a have a weird croup sounding cough which has never gone away either and comes and goes. My oxygen saturation levels are normal, no asthma, blood tests normal, chest x-ray and CT scan both normal. The only thing abnormal was my lung function test which showed that my 'gas transfer' the called it was not normal.
I am a mountain bike instructor for my job and it has been so hard, I really am clutching at strings,
Any help, any comments, even if they are negative I don't care I just need something (and sorry if I posted in the wrong forum).
Thank you
Christa
I have joined this forum to try and search for answers, I have a long history and all I can do is pray that I might find some direction on this forum.
I am not a typical free diver, I hold my breathe and catch crayfish; I haven't had any training and possibly, that damage has been done.
I started free diving a year ago and would go to maybe 8m, 10m max and stay under only for 30 seconds, not much longer. One day a year ago now I was diving and I got really cold, I had also swallowed a lot of salt water due to dodgy snorkel. I remember burping a lot whilst trying to dive (and I still do this and I don't know why!). When I got back I got a bad chest infection and cough. It went away but when it did I was stuck with shortness of breath.
Everyday I can't breathe properly. I yawn a lot and try get the air in and sometimes it doesn't go in down into my lungs. Sometimes I can get it in but the more you force it sometimes the harder to take the deep breathe. Sometimes I feel like I am choking or being strangled and I have a constant wheezing noise from my throat. The other thing is a have a weird croup sounding cough which has never gone away either and comes and goes. My oxygen saturation levels are normal, no asthma, blood tests normal, chest x-ray and CT scan both normal. The only thing abnormal was my lung function test which showed that my 'gas transfer' the called it was not normal.
I am a mountain bike instructor for my job and it has been so hard, I really am clutching at strings,
Any help, any comments, even if they are negative I don't care I just need something (and sorry if I posted in the wrong forum).
Thank you
Christa