[West Ireland Diver]

Right, I reckon I'm being paranoid but here goes........

A few years before I took up diving I got unexplained pain in my toe joint. It was put down to an infection I picked up while travelling. All sorted quickly.

Last year I took up diving. On a trip to the Carribean in March this year I got a bad pain in the same joint. During that day I had done two dives (24m, and 14m max), both well within limits but with a short surface interval. Anyhoo, I didn't really link this too diving as it was a prior injury. I did three more dives that week, one to 34m, one to 24m and a cave dive to 13m max depth but I was down for over 70mins.

Now, on Saturday I did my first dive in 5 weeks, I dropped to 24m briefly but spent most of the dive at 20m. Ascended very very slowly, did a safety stop and was back on the surface at 30mins. Approx 8 hours after the dive I started to get a real pain in my toe joint. The only other symptom is that on Sunday I was battered, completely dog tired. Today it's a little stiff but the pain has pretty much gone.

Now I could say I've also got some mild pins and needles all over, but I'm not sure if that's me working myself up. It's now getting a little too co-incidental that this flares up when I dive.

Soooo here are my questions.....

- Can previous injuries just be suseptible to flaring up while diving, not related to DCI?
- Could I just be unlucky and even though I was well within limits have an unexplained bend?
- If I suffered mild DCI while away in March and didn't get it treated could this now be causing me problems?
- Would fairly strong pain from a bend be mostly gone within 48hrs?

The nearest chamber is 4.5hrs away, I know I should go if I have too, but I reckon I'm just working myself up!!

Cheers
Ed