First off just popping in to say 'Hello'. I'm VERY new to scuba, actually just finished my OW. I'd have to blame my wife, she was a diver before we got married and I tell everyone that it was part of our vows that I would get certified. Y'know "For Deeper For Shallower, In DCS And In Health" the standard stuff.
Anyway, on to the question. I have recently been diagnosed with Hypermobility (basically I'm double jointed everywhere). Now, this is nothing new and I've never had any problems until recently when my knee started dislocating randomly (not too often but often enough to cause problems and be a real pain).
Anyway, to make a short story long, I asked my Doc if it would interfere with diving (since they've cut the list of activities I normally enjoy participating in by about 75%
seems that my knees bending 14 degrees BACKWARDS and having it randomly dislocate is a BAD thing, who would've guessed). They said they didn't foresee it causing any problems but then again they aren't a diver and it seems that every doctor i've been sent too has never dealt with anything like this before (which brings comments from "ewww gross" to yelling down the hall to their co-workers "you gotta come check this out").
I talked to some people at my LDS and they agreed with the doc that as long as i wear a brace under my wetsuit to keep it stable i should have no problems. I'm personally a little bit skeptical of this because the last thing I want is to be 40' down and suddenly realize "oh they were wrong that didn't work
". Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.