Suggest you go to your usual doc here in the US about the reflux. Might want to search online for the foods that can aggravate it and cut those out, seeing how you feel.
Chest and neck pain underwater
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Reflux could do it.
I'm not sure the symptoms are consistent with immersion pulmonary edema (IPE) precisely, but like reflux it wouldn't matter if you were snorkeling or diving. I know some folks have complained of chest pain with edema, but never asked if it was "sternum pain" or more general, overall chest pain. I wouldn't guess IPE in tropical water and you're not in the prime age group that this happens to, but there are exceptions. You didn't cough up any fluids during or right after the dive, did you?
I'm not sure the symptoms are consistent with immersion pulmonary edema (IPE) precisely, but like reflux it wouldn't matter if you were snorkeling or diving. I know some folks have complained of chest pain with edema, but never asked if it was "sternum pain" or more general, overall chest pain. I wouldn't guess IPE in tropical water and you're not in the prime age group that this happens to, but there are exceptions. You didn't cough up any fluids during or right after the dive, did you?
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