On almost every dive, I always feel Nausea upon acsending and at 5 meter safety stop and will immediately vomit upon surfacing. Can anyone tell me what's the cause is and how to prevent it? These symptoms are terrible that I almost give up diving, please help. Thank you.
Nausea during safety stop. Need help!
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dilligaf368
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Why not try some anti-sea sick meds. Over the counter works for My Friend. B-
Do you come up slowly enough? It could be your ears have a hard time equalizing on the way up. My buddy had that problem today - it took three tries for him to get to our 20 ft (6 m) stop ok. Upon surfacing, he mentioned that he was having severe vertigo and headache for first few tries. This was a very shallow reef dive, with nothing extreme going on. He was just congested in the right (I should say wrong) way. Once we came up slowly enough, he was ok.
Try to ascend very slowly.
Try to ascend very slowly.
Spoon
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i usually feel nautious after surfacing, i confuse this nautious feeling with hunger. in reality it was actually hunger
miketsp
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nagonoj:
I often have a similar problem on the first dive of each day.
In my case it appears to be accumulated mucus from the sinuses due to the fact that a) during the dive I'm not breathing through my nose and b) the pressure changes seem to help loosen the mucus. As soon as I get to the surface I lift my mask a little to aspirate a little salt water through my nose and I generally end up coughing out a big gob of mucus. As soon as I do this I feel fine.
nagonoj:
Request Scopalamine if you havent tried it. Its a patch that goes behind the ear to help with sea sickness.
Also dont drink coffee or greasy foods before or on the day of the dive. Lots of fluids.
Get a good nights sleep too. Being drowsy tends to be sluggish.
Dont hold the down line keep it close and rely more on your BC control the up and down motion of the down line can make you sick.
Focus on something other than the objects moving up and down. Stare at your compass or something else that is stationary to you.
Dramamine and Bonine have both dont do anything for me but the patch does me good. I too would like to get rid of this sick feeling and am inquiring about seeing what an ear specialist might be able to do if anything.
I have even tried those silly magnet wrist bands and ear clip thing. All a waste of what is some sort of physical issue.
On the brighter side you and I get to see the fish really upclose. Its sick but its fish food to them. There must be a saying what is one mans former lunch is a fishes delicacy?
cmalinowski
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have you tried blowing out your nose while under? I get the same thing in that mucus builds up (it has never bothered me or made me sick--knock on wood). Sometimes I just blow hard through my nose like I'm clearing my mask. It helps...miketsp:
Scuba
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scubadoc:
I believe I have experienced this on ocassion where I've had difficulty clearing. However, I normally don't necessarily swallow to clear, but I suppose all kinds of jaw movement while breathing may result in getting air into the stomach. Upon ascent I have felt my stomach bloated and expanding to where I've had to loosen the bc hip strap for comfort. Is stomach expansion and a bloated feeling requisite symptoms of this condition? Is there a way to release the expanding gas bubble besides vomiting? One more question, can sufficient gas to cause problems enter the stomach under normal breathing without swallowing gas?
nagonoj,
Regarding motion sickness:
The recommended dosage instructions of over the counter medications such as dramamine do not work effectively for me. Taking dosage the night before and another the next day a half hour to a couple hours before the dive or boat ride is very effective for me. Not a recommendation, just what I do sometimes. Some of these meds can have side effects on some persons such as drowsiness, excitation, etc. which may not be suitable for diving. Also, different brands may use different medical compounds and you may find one works better for you than others.
Properly clearing on descent, where one does not experience a feeling of pressure in the ears during the dive, reduces ear pressure inequilibrium problems on ascent. At least from my personal observations. There are a lot a good ear clearing threads here with information on techniques and general subject matter. Search.
My wife had this happened to her. It was mainly due to the anchor line and holding on to it. In Cozumel she did not feel sick at all due to just drifting on our safety stop. When we dove in Florida and went down then up on the anchor line and held onto it for our SS, she felt terrible. The second time I held onto the line and she held onto me, helped a little bit but the up down motion is what got to her.
Doug
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