Hi everyone,
I've been diving for a little over 2 decades and happen to think it is the best hobby and sport on the planet. I was diving in Roatan for about a week in mid March and managed to do something oddly painful. One of the days we dove on a boat that was NOT a dive boat. They overbooked so we had a small capacity dingy looking boat for the day.
Entry was obviously a back roll where we had to watch our fins rolling back to not get caught in whatever was in front of us rom buckets to other items. On the first dive of the second day, my fin got caught in something on the way and the top of my left medial calf/back of my knee was incredibly painful once I entered the water. It was first throbbing and then quite painful but I ignored it and dove. Essentially I wasn't able to straighten my left leg since there was a lack of space and my fin was caught in some object as I rolled back. It felt NOT good.
Later that afternoon and for the following few days it was sore to the touch and felt like an overextended muscle or tendon at the top of my calf and right behind/below my knee. I kept diving and continued to enjoy every second of my vacation while icing it at night.
This was mid March and today is the 1st of May. It has still been slightly sore to the touch, but I am working out just about daily and besides being "annoying" it hasn't actually hurt minus when I bang it by accident. Today it decided to swell up in that area to the size of a very small baseball or a huge golfball.
Has anyone had a similar injury that can share what was actually injured? Yes I will call around to get into a doctor tomorrow, but it is currently 630pm my time and I can hardly see this as an emergency when I've been ignoring it for about 5.5-6 weeks. The swelling is at the top of my right calf towards the medial part of my leg just below what would be considered the back of my knee.
Thank you for any light you can shed on my issue to help me, I appreciate it!
Jacky
I've been diving for a little over 2 decades and happen to think it is the best hobby and sport on the planet. I was diving in Roatan for about a week in mid March and managed to do something oddly painful. One of the days we dove on a boat that was NOT a dive boat. They overbooked so we had a small capacity dingy looking boat for the day.
Entry was obviously a back roll where we had to watch our fins rolling back to not get caught in whatever was in front of us rom buckets to other items. On the first dive of the second day, my fin got caught in something on the way and the top of my left medial calf/back of my knee was incredibly painful once I entered the water. It was first throbbing and then quite painful but I ignored it and dove. Essentially I wasn't able to straighten my left leg since there was a lack of space and my fin was caught in some object as I rolled back. It felt NOT good.
Later that afternoon and for the following few days it was sore to the touch and felt like an overextended muscle or tendon at the top of my calf and right behind/below my knee. I kept diving and continued to enjoy every second of my vacation while icing it at night.
This was mid March and today is the 1st of May. It has still been slightly sore to the touch, but I am working out just about daily and besides being "annoying" it hasn't actually hurt minus when I bang it by accident. Today it decided to swell up in that area to the size of a very small baseball or a huge golfball.
Has anyone had a similar injury that can share what was actually injured? Yes I will call around to get into a doctor tomorrow, but it is currently 630pm my time and I can hardly see this as an emergency when I've been ignoring it for about 5.5-6 weeks. The swelling is at the top of my right calf towards the medial part of my leg just below what would be considered the back of my knee.
Thank you for any light you can shed on my issue to help me, I appreciate it!
Jacky
