I was diving last Thursday in Denmark in max 4m water as an after work relaxation activity with a new dive club.
We were playing around the underwater "witch park" for about 35 minutes until we surfaced as the visibility made us miss some landmarks and we wanted to be sure we are on the right spot to start heading to the shore. When we saw we were at the right spot to turn and head to the shore we signaled "down" and we went back to 3-5 meters. And that's when it happened...
I felt a stabbing feeling on my right eyebrow, i was equalizing constantly (both ears and mask) and the pain was just there. I immediately signaled something is wrong, my buddy and i surfaced and swam outside as i was in pain. It was annoying me for hours, i had to get a painkiller to be able to relax and sleep. The next day i had a small annoyance there but since then i am fine. Maybe a bit of a light headache since then but that could be from fatigue too.
Reading about it i could see it may be a sinus barotrauma (the pain was exaclty on the purple circle on the right picture) and one of the articles was saying i should be careful with flying. I am flying tomorrow (Exactly a week after it happened). I visited a doctor and he told me that since i have no running nose or fever or any other symptoms i am good to fly, but knowing Danish doctors being a bit too loose about things i thought it would be a good idea to get the opinion of the more experienced ones in here
We were playing around the underwater "witch park" for about 35 minutes until we surfaced as the visibility made us miss some landmarks and we wanted to be sure we are on the right spot to start heading to the shore. When we saw we were at the right spot to turn and head to the shore we signaled "down" and we went back to 3-5 meters. And that's when it happened...
I felt a stabbing feeling on my right eyebrow, i was equalizing constantly (both ears and mask) and the pain was just there. I immediately signaled something is wrong, my buddy and i surfaced and swam outside as i was in pain. It was annoying me for hours, i had to get a painkiller to be able to relax and sleep. The next day i had a small annoyance there but since then i am fine. Maybe a bit of a light headache since then but that could be from fatigue too.
Reading about it i could see it may be a sinus barotrauma (the pain was exaclty on the purple circle on the right picture) and one of the articles was saying i should be careful with flying. I am flying tomorrow (Exactly a week after it happened). I visited a doctor and he told me that since i have no running nose or fever or any other symptoms i am good to fly, but knowing Danish doctors being a bit too loose about things i thought it would be a good idea to get the opinion of the more experienced ones in here
