BeeOnLotus
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Hello there folks,
Firstly, I appreciate your time in reading this and offering any advice you're able and willing to. Whilst this doesn't technically fall under the type of Diving covered by this forum, it is similar enough for it to fit.
Second, the story:
My girlfriend and I were taking a river-rafting trip in West Thailand (Kanchanaburi, for those familiar). At one point, we stopped and decided to take a dive off a tree by the river-bank. The tree was about 4 m tall. The water was deep with no rocks or debris. I took a view dives and then my girlfriend followed. When she came out of the water, there was a pressure in her ears. It lasted much of the day, which prompted me to have her do some breathing exercises to help clear her ears - mouth and nose closed, breathe out, which brought immediate relief.
Although the pain subsided, it's remained at a very low-level for over six weeks now and has shifted places to her sinus. She describes it as a bubble between her nasal cavity and her brain that she can sometimes feel. When she has a headache, which she frequently has, both prior to her dive injury and after, the pain in the nose is intensified.
At present, she's sick with a flu, plus a bad headache, which has intensified the pain in her nose. It's quite painful, according to her. She lives in a remote part of Thailand, and if she goes to most of the government hospitals, she'll end-up sitting for several hours for the doctor to give her a half-assed exam and throw some paracetamol and anti-biotics her way.
If it's possibly very serious, she can afford to pay to see a private specialist in a private hospital, but it won't be cheap and will probably take a lot of time - about 4 hours just to get to the hospital. If not, from what I've read and gathered, it sounds like perhaps she has an infection in her sinus, and that she should just take: anti-inflammatories, decongestents, and antibiotics, to clear what, to me, sounds like an infection. All three of these, I would add, you can purchase without a prescription in Thailand.
I realize it's a little out-of-place for this forum, but also a little relevant and, I hope, that you could lend your time and advice to help this fellow human.
Thank you for your consideration and time, again,
Bee
Firstly, I appreciate your time in reading this and offering any advice you're able and willing to. Whilst this doesn't technically fall under the type of Diving covered by this forum, it is similar enough for it to fit.
Second, the story:
My girlfriend and I were taking a river-rafting trip in West Thailand (Kanchanaburi, for those familiar). At one point, we stopped and decided to take a dive off a tree by the river-bank. The tree was about 4 m tall. The water was deep with no rocks or debris. I took a view dives and then my girlfriend followed. When she came out of the water, there was a pressure in her ears. It lasted much of the day, which prompted me to have her do some breathing exercises to help clear her ears - mouth and nose closed, breathe out, which brought immediate relief.
Although the pain subsided, it's remained at a very low-level for over six weeks now and has shifted places to her sinus. She describes it as a bubble between her nasal cavity and her brain that she can sometimes feel. When she has a headache, which she frequently has, both prior to her dive injury and after, the pain in the nose is intensified.
At present, she's sick with a flu, plus a bad headache, which has intensified the pain in her nose. It's quite painful, according to her. She lives in a remote part of Thailand, and if she goes to most of the government hospitals, she'll end-up sitting for several hours for the doctor to give her a half-assed exam and throw some paracetamol and anti-biotics her way.
If it's possibly very serious, she can afford to pay to see a private specialist in a private hospital, but it won't be cheap and will probably take a lot of time - about 4 hours just to get to the hospital. If not, from what I've read and gathered, it sounds like perhaps she has an infection in her sinus, and that she should just take: anti-inflammatories, decongestents, and antibiotics, to clear what, to me, sounds like an infection. All three of these, I would add, you can purchase without a prescription in Thailand.
I realize it's a little out-of-place for this forum, but also a little relevant and, I hope, that you could lend your time and advice to help this fellow human.
Thank you for your consideration and time, again,
Bee
