Sick stomach after dive

[Rinoxus]

I am pretty new to diving, and have been getting sick stomachs after I go past ~80ft. Am I safe in assuming this is from Narcosis, I am really not sure. My divemaster gave us plunty of time for decompression, but I have gotton a sick stomach three times after a dive. The first was a Manta dive around 75ft. We were down there for around 15 min and went to 15 ft. for around 10-15. On my deep dive, for AOW, we went around 100 for ~10 and stopped off at 20-15ft for around 15-20 min. On both these dives, I felt a little wierd at about 70 ft. It was barely anything. When I got to the surface and felt like I was sea sick, but I don't get sea sick. My stomach was sick for around 2 days. This last dive was our AOW naturalist, and I went down to 80ft and got some good Shark pics, didn't feel sick at all. That was yesterday. Today, about 22 hr later my stomach is sick again. What do I need to do.

 

[erubic]

I don't know the answer to your question but I just wanted to say that the same thing is happening to me. only my dives are shallower, and I did throw up once -had nothing heavy to eat and it was a shore dive. The only thing I can think of was that it was the motion of the waves? I also felt sick for a few days after??

 

[ReefGuy]

I had a problem like that. I used to feel strange at depth, then chum the fish once I was back on the boat, then I was fine for the next dive. It ended up being acid reflux. I now take a zantac first thing before I dive, eat normally, and no probs.

 

[RICHinNC]

this may sound weird....but do your sinuses drain an awful lot and you snork it back up versus clearing them underwater??? If I dont clear mine and snork the stuff up instead, my stomach revolts once back on the boat....but not for days later.
Man, aint this a wonderful conversation!!

 

[Rinoxus]

Could it be something in the air that we are breathing? One of the other guys had the same problem, but he wasn't with me and my buddy so there wasn't the exact same decompression.

 

[TTSkipper]

I am not sure if this is the same thing, but after my first 10 dives or so it felt like my stomach was bloated and I felt a little nauseas, I think that I read in another thread that it is due to swallowing some air rather than breathing it (in other words sucking it into your stomach). I am now more comfortable nderwater and have not had any issues on my last 15 dives or so.

I am not saying that this is the problem you guys are having but it sounded similar to some of the symptoms I was experiencing when I first started and it seems as though you guys are all new divers.

I am not a doctor, nor do I play one on tv so please take what I said as just another noob's experiences.

TTSkipper

 

[Bretagne]

I have the problem of swallowing air, but only when I breath from snorkel. Which posed me some problem for my certification 2*, as i had the swimming exercises in the morning, and I could not do the afternoon dive. As I am unable to reject this air by the muth, i had to lie down for sometime until the air went the other way!
But I have no problem on regulator, so now I try to stay on surface the shorter possible time (before diving, after diving it is less a problem).

 

[Rinoxus]

Just on a follow up. In March I went diving with my Dad in Palau and kept getting really sick. I told my Dad, who is a doctor, and he palpated my stomach and I almost through up on him. Ends up I have an ulcer. I guess it has been developing for a while, but as far as I know that seemed to be the cause. What sucks is I haven't been diving since Mar. because of it That's life. Hopefully it will heal up soon. Thanks for your help guys.

 

[H2Andy]

man, i am so sorry... hope you get better soon!

stop eating that spicy southern food!