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Hi all, having some medical issues and appreciate any support/response here.
Currently doing my divemaster in Raja Ampat and facing some pretty rough sinus squeeze or reverse block. First dive yesterday, I submerged as normal horizontally slowly making my way down to depth. At around 5m, pain was pretty high equalizing so stopped and went back up a few meters to allow slower equalization. Went through multiple cycles of this but equalization never reached well and ultimately called the dive about 10 minutes in.
Past experience - never really had trouble equalizing and did not feel congested/sick. Around 130 dives in various conditions
After canceling the other dives yesterday, I doce today and took it really slow on the descend. I had issues with descend again (once again multiple repeat intervals to adjust) but at around 25m, it all of a sudden cleared and was fine. Took a shorter dive sub 30m and ascended fine. Second dive, descend was be dry smooth. However, on the ascend to the safety stop, my head felt like exploding. Don’t think I’ve felt pain to that level prior.
Talked to DAN hotline, and the nurse said it could be middle ear barotrauma (given the sudden relief of the first dive). also eluded to my 28 hour flight time a couple days before also impacts ear pressure.
Grabbed a physical opinion from the ER in Raja Ampat and she saw redness but no infection or perforation, and she diagnosed an infection potentially in the ear.
I know it’s hard to diagnose online and everyone’s case is different, but I wanted to gather more data from other divers to see if this has happened to them before or what they think it is.
Really appreciate the help in advance
Currently doing my divemaster in Raja Ampat and facing some pretty rough sinus squeeze or reverse block. First dive yesterday, I submerged as normal horizontally slowly making my way down to depth. At around 5m, pain was pretty high equalizing so stopped and went back up a few meters to allow slower equalization. Went through multiple cycles of this but equalization never reached well and ultimately called the dive about 10 minutes in.
Past experience - never really had trouble equalizing and did not feel congested/sick. Around 130 dives in various conditions
After canceling the other dives yesterday, I doce today and took it really slow on the descend. I had issues with descend again (once again multiple repeat intervals to adjust) but at around 25m, it all of a sudden cleared and was fine. Took a shorter dive sub 30m and ascended fine. Second dive, descend was be dry smooth. However, on the ascend to the safety stop, my head felt like exploding. Don’t think I’ve felt pain to that level prior.
Talked to DAN hotline, and the nurse said it could be middle ear barotrauma (given the sudden relief of the first dive). also eluded to my 28 hour flight time a couple days before also impacts ear pressure.
Grabbed a physical opinion from the ER in Raja Ampat and she saw redness but no infection or perforation, and she diagnosed an infection potentially in the ear.
I know it’s hard to diagnose online and everyone’s case is different, but I wanted to gather more data from other divers to see if this has happened to them before or what they think it is.
Really appreciate the help in advance