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Hi, everyone.
I was hoping someone could share personal experiences, insight, or general knowledge about my issue. In mid December, I was involved in a motorcycle accident when a driver ran a red light. Fortunately, I was able to stop enough that she did not hit me, but I hit her. The lack of damage on my helmet suggests I did not hit my head on the pavement but I did injure my wrist either on impact through the handlebars or when I fell to my right and was breaking my fall with my right hand. It was soft tissue damage that was diagnosed via MRI that is still recovering. I was sore in shoulders and neck a couple of days after.
I do 2 big dive trips a year and I just returned from my first one since the accident. Prior to this accident, I completed about 225 dives in similar conditions/depth/duration without incident. Nothing about the diving was out of the ordinary of what I would do. Unfortunately, about 25-35 minutes into the dives, I would get a bad headache/migraine that was often times accompanied by nausea and/or vomiting. I was able to hold most of the vomiting down until I surfaced or returned to the head on the boat but ended up letting loose underwater. Once that feeling starts, it is just a slow countdown until the dive ends and it was difficult to enjoy it for what it was. Upon surfacing, I was hitting the paracetamol/acetaminophen pretty hard - while not exceeding the hourly and daily dosages, of course.
At first, I suspected that it was the air, but the CO detector did not show any issues. On the second liveaboard, I also experienced the same thing and the air also did not show any issues.
I was given Zofran which is an anti-nausea medication. It worked extremely well in that I didn't feel nausea or vomit at all, but I was still getting the headaches, albeit not as often. A doctor on board suggested that it may be the result, whether temporary or permanent, of my motorcycle accident and said it might be something with my inner ear. I always carry Dramamine with me on liveaboards so I gave that a shot. It worked! No more headaches or nausea/vomiting for the rest of the trip so long as I stayed on it. This trip was about 55 dives.
I reached out to DAN and their dive medic brought up a few points including a possible neurological event such as increased cranial pressure while diving from immersion. He also thinks that the impact caused a sudden deceleration of my brain and the tissues/blood vessels may still be healing. Engorgement of the blood vessels while diving and mild elevation of CO2 may be causing vasodilation of my arterioles and neural fibers.
He suggested I see an ENT and possibly a neurologist about this. I have an appointment tomorrow with an ENT but was wondering if anyone had any other thoughts/experiences/info.
Thanks!
I was hoping someone could share personal experiences, insight, or general knowledge about my issue. In mid December, I was involved in a motorcycle accident when a driver ran a red light. Fortunately, I was able to stop enough that she did not hit me, but I hit her. The lack of damage on my helmet suggests I did not hit my head on the pavement but I did injure my wrist either on impact through the handlebars or when I fell to my right and was breaking my fall with my right hand. It was soft tissue damage that was diagnosed via MRI that is still recovering. I was sore in shoulders and neck a couple of days after.
I do 2 big dive trips a year and I just returned from my first one since the accident. Prior to this accident, I completed about 225 dives in similar conditions/depth/duration without incident. Nothing about the diving was out of the ordinary of what I would do. Unfortunately, about 25-35 minutes into the dives, I would get a bad headache/migraine that was often times accompanied by nausea and/or vomiting. I was able to hold most of the vomiting down until I surfaced or returned to the head on the boat but ended up letting loose underwater. Once that feeling starts, it is just a slow countdown until the dive ends and it was difficult to enjoy it for what it was. Upon surfacing, I was hitting the paracetamol/acetaminophen pretty hard - while not exceeding the hourly and daily dosages, of course.
At first, I suspected that it was the air, but the CO detector did not show any issues. On the second liveaboard, I also experienced the same thing and the air also did not show any issues.
I was given Zofran which is an anti-nausea medication. It worked extremely well in that I didn't feel nausea or vomit at all, but I was still getting the headaches, albeit not as often. A doctor on board suggested that it may be the result, whether temporary or permanent, of my motorcycle accident and said it might be something with my inner ear. I always carry Dramamine with me on liveaboards so I gave that a shot. It worked! No more headaches or nausea/vomiting for the rest of the trip so long as I stayed on it. This trip was about 55 dives.
I reached out to DAN and their dive medic brought up a few points including a possible neurological event such as increased cranial pressure while diving from immersion. He also thinks that the impact caused a sudden deceleration of my brain and the tissues/blood vessels may still be healing. Engorgement of the blood vessels while diving and mild elevation of CO2 may be causing vasodilation of my arterioles and neural fibers.
He suggested I see an ENT and possibly a neurologist about this. I have an appointment tomorrow with an ENT but was wondering if anyone had any other thoughts/experiences/info.
Thanks!
