In the middle of November this year I went on my first liveaboard trip in Egypt. During one of the dives towards the end of the week I felt out of sorts and so skipped the evening dive. That night I felt nauseous but wasn’t sick. I felt nauseous and lethargic for the last three days of the holiday and didn’t dive and ate very little .
As soon as I left the boat the nausea went, but upon arriving back in the UK I was dizzy, which gradually pretty much disappeared over the next two weeks or so. When arriving back home I had tested for covid which was positive, the line was very solid on the test and I didn’t get a clear test for 13 days, however the symptoms were very mild with just the dizziness, tiredness and a slight cough.
Now though for the last two or three weeks I have noticed I am hearing a very low frequency humming noise (similar in sound to the pump on our oil boiler). After trying to find out where the heck in the house it is coming from I have realised it is me.
The sound is only in my left ear and if I close my ear by pressing on the tragus with my finger it stops.
I have never had any tinnitus before, but I am now concerned about carrying on diving and making it worse.
I’m presuming the tinnitus was caused by the covid rather than ear barotrauma or inner-ear DCS from the diving as I didn’t have a pain in the ear that I remember on or after the dive.
I am going to make an appointment with my GP tomorrow as looking on the internet tinnitus in one ear associated with dizziness needs to be looked at in case it is cause by a number of more serious things.
Any thoughts on whether it might have been diving rather than covid that has caused it, and whether continuing to dive might make it worse?
Thanks
As soon as I left the boat the nausea went, but upon arriving back in the UK I was dizzy, which gradually pretty much disappeared over the next two weeks or so. When arriving back home I had tested for covid which was positive, the line was very solid on the test and I didn’t get a clear test for 13 days, however the symptoms were very mild with just the dizziness, tiredness and a slight cough.
Now though for the last two or three weeks I have noticed I am hearing a very low frequency humming noise (similar in sound to the pump on our oil boiler). After trying to find out where the heck in the house it is coming from I have realised it is me.
The sound is only in my left ear and if I close my ear by pressing on the tragus with my finger it stops.
I have never had any tinnitus before, but I am now concerned about carrying on diving and making it worse.
I’m presuming the tinnitus was caused by the covid rather than ear barotrauma or inner-ear DCS from the diving as I didn’t have a pain in the ear that I remember on or after the dive.
I am going to make an appointment with my GP tomorrow as looking on the internet tinnitus in one ear associated with dizziness needs to be looked at in case it is cause by a number of more serious things.
Any thoughts on whether it might have been diving rather than covid that has caused it, and whether continuing to dive might make it worse?
Thanks