Nose bleeds

[Tiberius]

My wife has a nose bleed virtually every dive. Not a lot but it's happened on virtually every dive (about 20 so far). Doesn't realy seem to depend on the depth either (AOW, but it seems to happen on any dive below about 8M).

Anyone else?

[Dan Wilko]

It happend to me every single dive, and then 1 day it didnt and never happened again, wierd.

[Sally]

i'm like the previous poster - I had a slight nose bleed on my first few dives in colder pools/lakes but in Red Sea all was well. Don't know if the warmer waters made any difference.
Anybody have any ideas???
Sally

[paramedic paul]

Might be a load of tosh as most of my posts are but does she get stressed before each dive?

If she does she could experience an increase in her blood pressure which is a common cause of nose bleeds especially if she has delicate veins in her nose.

If that is the case as she gets more experience and relaxes a bit more before each dive hopefully it will stop which could explain why other posters problem stopped!

This is just my 2p and posted as a suggestion not a diagnosis ( I think I have too say that these days )

[Dan Wilko]

Never thought of that, it cant be them temperature as i dive much colder than on my first dives. Sounds pretty feesable though.

[Tiberius]

Well I might combine these 2 theories of stress and temperature actually.

1. Training was done in Feb at cape (4 degrees) and actually I don't remember her bleeding there. All other dives have been done in Australia, water temp between 23 and 29, bleed every time.

2. I am never ever going on a summer holiday with my family again. Both wife and No. 1 son (12) are as grouchy as hell in the heat. So stress may come into it.

I guess it's my fault for marrying a northern barbarian from Yorkshire, but they just don't like the heat. So in future we'll either stick to cold water, or I'll go on my own

[balbrigganbloke]

I used to get it when i started out first
I came up once and the skipper said to me why didnt you equalise
I had but now i equalise more often just to get the tiniest bit of equalisation
Tell her to try to equalise more often it worked a charm for me

[-=AluminiumToad=-]

Might be wrong, but make sure to remember to equalise your mask as well as your ears. I had a bad fitting mask which used to push on my nose quite hard if not equalised regularly. Might explain it?
Cheers Nick

[CatB]

I tend to get minor pain in my sinuses on the descent and occasional nosebleeds when I'm wearing a hood - even when I make sure that I have flooded the hood so I don't have any airspaces around my ears. This may be a factor for other people who find they get nosebleeds at colder temperatures?

[mythic]

I used to suffer from scinus problems quite a bit. In fact it was so bad that i went to the hospital to see a specilest. At the time i was just starting diving he suggested that i should continue diving but take it easy and if it hurt stop. I used to get nose bleeds for the first 20 or so dives i made. However when i started diving things got better and in the end the specilest said if i continue diving regulary then i could avoid having an opperation on my scineses. It seemd that all that pressure was in fact cleaning them out and clearing them nicly. Nowerdays i dont get infections in my scineses unless i stop diving for more than a couple of weeks. Recently i hurt my back and had not dived for a month and i got a scines infection. So mabe it is just a case of clearing the old pipes out ??