u/nuggetkip_

Symptoms: I always start feeling normal, but during the first ten to twenty minutes underwater, I begin to develop a headache in my forehead. It feels exactly like my mask is too tight, even when I loosen it repeatedly. As I continue the dive, the headache slowly gets worse, and my eyes start tearing up. The headache eventually becomes unbearable and then I go to the surface. Usually on my way up I start coughing a little.

But then at the surface the headache remains extremely bad (like seriously I didn't know headaches so bad were possible). Once out of the water I get really nauseous and dizzy and start coughing until I vomit a few times in a row. I usually drink immediately after diving, but it doesn't help. I then lay down and after 20 minutes all of my symptoms disappear.

I usually only have these symptoms in the first few dives of my vacation. Afterwards I can usually dive with no problems at all. But sometimes it does return when I have to fight really strong currents or when I get really stressed. ( I don't stress often enough to know for sure, but last time I did it happened).

So a little background info: ( I don't know if it will all be relevant, but I hope something might give a clue). I'm a 17 year old female AOWD with 5 years of diving experience and 79 dives in total. I'm an underwater photographer and I'm a really calm and steady diver. I tend to finish my dives with around 100 - 110 bar of air remaining in my tank. And I breathe in very slowly with little "power", but due to my lungs I can't exhale for a long time, so I usually do so for a normal amount of time.

I have a weak lung pipe when exhaling, the doctors suspect that I have a vain or vessel wrapped around my lung pipe, which makes it dent inwards when I exhale. I also have had asthma since I was little.

I looked it up and my symptoms were close to that of CO2 retention. But the strange thing is that I only got it the past 2 years when I switched from diving in Egypt to diving in Indonesia. It might be the current, I dont know what else it could be.

I need to see a medical professional, but they will probably tell me to stop diving and that's just not an option for me. So I really hope to find a way to prevent these symptoms and avoid seeing my doctor hahaha.

So does anyone know what this is and how I can prevent this from happening?

Symptoms: I always start feeling normal, but during the first ten to twenty minutes underwater, I begin to develop a headache in my forehead. It feels exactly like my mask is too tight, even when I loosen it repeatedly. As I continue the dive, the headache slowly gets worse, and my eyes start tearing up. The headache eventually becomes unbearable and then I go to the surface. Usually on my way up I start coughing a little.

But then at the surface the headache remains extremely bad (like seriously I didn't know headaches so bad were possible). Once out of the water I get really nauseous and dizzy and start coughing until I vommit a few times in a row. I usually drink immediately after diving, but it does at really help. I then lay down and after 20 minutes all of my symptoms disappear.

I usually only have these symptoms in the first few dives of my vacation. Afterwards I can usually dive with no problems at all. But sometimes it does return when I have to fight really strong currents or when I get really stressed. ( I don't stres often enough to know for sure, but last time I did it happened).

So a little background info: ( I don't know if it will all be relevant, but I hope something might give a clue). I'm a 17 year old female AOWD with 5 years of diving experience and 79 dives in total. Im an underwater photographer and Im a really calm and steady diver. I tend to finish my dives with around 100 - 110 bar of air remaining in my tank. And I breathe in verry slowly with little "power", but due to my lungs I can't exhale for a long time, so I usually do so for a normal amount of time.

I have a weak lung pipe when exhaling, the doctors suspect that I have a vain or vessel wrapped around my lung pipe, which makes it dent inwards when I exhale. I also have had astma since I was little.

I looked it up and my symptoms were close to that of CO2 retention. But the strange thing is that I only got it the past 2 years when I switched from diving in Egypt to diving in Indonesia. It might be the current, I dont know what else it could be.

I need to see a medical professional, but they will probably tell me to stop diving and that's just not an option for me. So I really hope to find a way to prevent these symptoms and avoid seeing my doctor hahaha.

So does anyone know what this is and how I can prevent this from happening?