barotrauma

Hoping Duke Dive Medicine sees this and responds. I am very concerned and seeking answers to a dive-related injury. Context: I am a 29 year old male, otherwise healthy, who just began to dive in April. I was doing my first few open water dives for the certification process on April 20. My...

I am looking for an otolaryngologist or otologist in the New Jersey/New York area with a specialty in (or at least solid familiarity and experience with) scuba-related injuries . I thought this would be easier, but I've spoken with every ENT I can find and most cannot even spell "barotrauma,"...

Hello scubaboard community, I am not diving but i have experienced similar ear barotrauma symptoms that divers get, i have developed tinnitus and decreased hearing after painful ear syringing at a doctor even though my eardrum is intact, do you think it goes away over time? It has been 2 months...

I’m having difficulty finding a clear answer to this. An earlier thread posed a similar question but no response: Air embolism with empty lungs My understanding of an AGE event is caused by the lungs physically unable to expand further when exposed to expanding gas within the lungs...

Hi Guys, hope you're all doing well. My name is Leonardo and I've recently started diving (~10 dives so far). I went diving 2 months ago, did 2 dives in a day and took a flight on the next (24hrs+ after the last dive). A few days later I ended up with a sinusitis and a mid-ear barotrauma due to...

Hello everyone I’m here seeking advice and experiences with anyone that has gone through something like this. 52 days ago I had a bad cold and my left Eustachian tube was a little clogged I tried opening by performing a ( VERY FORCEFUL VALSALVA MANUVER) what happened next was that my ear...

Hi! I went diving last Tuesday (1 week ago) and did two dives. The first one went well, however, during the second one, the entire group swam through an overhead environment. It was my first time cave diving and my buddy and I had a dive master assigned to us for the duration of the dive. All...

This is one of the barotrauma that they don't teach during certification at any level. It is very serious, painful, and can lead to permanent injury. Please feel free to ask me about it - When does it happen? Why does it happen? How to avoid it? And how to manage and treat it.

Hi guys, I'm new here and hope I post correctly and maybe find some help in my very sad situation. I am not sure if im here in the correct address but I gonna try. I started to scuba dive November 2020 and I fell in love straight away. Since November I've been diving 22 times, did all courses...

I posted a few months back about my diving mishap. Quick background revist- I had problems equalizing, and after surfacing my left ear felt full and I had constant popping and clicking in my ears. After a week or so things seemed to improve however so I was optimistic. However after some loud...

Hi, I'm new to diving and recently joined this forum due to a problem I encountered. On my last dive a month ago, I had problems equalizing, but I felt I eventually equalized well enough (obviously not). When I returned to the surface, my left ear felt full; my right ear for the most part did...

Greetings all, I had a barotrauma event in the philippines in november. I also had an ear infection just before this, which was cleared by a doctor in the philippines. Diving was fine, just took a day off here and there ,when the ear was problematic. Anyway, I was fine heading home, and lost...

Hello community, I am a 30 year old diver in excellent health, from New York City. I was diving in Barbados last week (going for my Master Diver certification) and was having trouble equalizing in my left ear. Instead of immediately aborting the dive (I was overexcited by being back in the water...

Two days ago I failed to properly equalize my ears while snorkeling, and a few minutes after getting out of the water my left ear started ringing. There was no pain or sensation of fullness, maybe some numbness of the ear lobe. I only did a few dives and the deepest dive was only to 8mfw but all...

Hi all, I am completely new to diving and this forum and would be grateful for the thoughts of experienced individuals here! I completed an OW and AOW course in Malta which saw me do 9 dives in 5 days, with a maximum descent of 30m. I did have some equalization issues and for the last two dives...

First of all I have actually never done any diving in my life, and I am essentially on this forum looking for help related to ear barotrauma injuries as the inner ear specialist I visited to have failed to provide any insight (or take my problems seriously). Neither have any other ENT's I have...

Hello all, I'm posting this in hopes of finding options to treat what seems to be an inner ear barotrauma I suffered 25 days ago. My story and timeline is such: Day 1: Initial snorkel trip; dive down about 2.5 meters, perform Valsalva maneuver; ear barely clears; 2 min later extreme tinnitus...