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- I do have asthma but I don't have breathing problems when I'm underwater just when I surface

- Thanks for the comments and I will try and find a pulmonologist that DAN recommends near me and see what my options are, and I know not to use the internet as a doctor.

- Thanks for your suggestions on where to focus on with working out

-When I'm underwater I actually am relaxed, which is why I don't want to quit diving. I also rented my gear and did not have any problems with it.

-Thank you so much for your input and well wishes. I really do hope this is just because diving is a new experience for my body.

-I do not have any other exercise related chest pain and have already done a stress test with an EKG and another with just the EKG and all was normal

I'm thinking this is like anxiety because I have no problems when I'm underwater only after I surface. The first pool day of diving I was really really nervous until I started breathing through the reg and realizing that I was going to be fine and the air wasn't going to trigger my asthma.

-My doctor recommended I take them so I hope they help

-Oh wow, maybe the low vitamin d and the anxiety of my first few pool dives just carried over to my other dives and I never was able to get over it because of my low vitamin d? (I just recently started taking vitamin d supplements after it was recommended by my doctor) Thanks for looking that up!

-The chest pain was happening in scenarios where I didn't wear a wetsuit

- Yes they did do labs and all was normal except low vitaman D (I work at night so that is expected)

- The chest pain varies from side to side and can sometimes switch sides over a few days. Breathing sometimes causes more pressure but it's not really a sharp pain (that I can remember). Also I have to press really hard on my chest for pain

Hello everyone I am a newly certified diver and I have been having this problem every time I dive, whether that be in a 5ft to 15ft pool, or a 25ft spring. I almost always have chest pain after a few hours or the day after the dives. The first pool dive I did I was very nervous, I do have asthma...