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Hi Annesse, very interesting information that adds to the picture this doctor of mine has painted. It can be that he was being overcautious but he is a military doctor and I have more confidence in those...

Unfortunately, my brain and spinal cord are filled with demyelinating lesions and the sample of cerebrospinal fluid they took was also positive for MS. There is no misdiagnosis, unfortunately. I do have one symptom, I don't usually mention it because it's embarassing: urge incontinence. Thank God, t...

So, you're saying, one will only have a problem when going up too quickly? I frankly don't know, I'm trying to figure things out... The doctor mentioned the decompression table and said that it is generally understood that this table is accurate by 98%, which sounds logical because it can't be that ...

And a clarification: it's not nitrogen that can ignite symptoms, it's that nitrogen bubbles reduce the oxygen content of the blood arriving at the areas with inflammation or may altogether block the flow of blood in the micro-veins of the grey matter or the brain.

I've just concluded a round with doctors on this same topic. I've always wanted to dive, but when I was very young I didn't have the money, then I got married and became a mum and I've just waited for my son to grow up and take him go diving together. In the meantime, I was diagnosed with MS (four a...