Head Ache's after Diving

[nickb]

I used to get headaches after diving. Since I've started to do much slower ascents from 21m and up with at least a 3 minute stop at 6m and a 2 minute ascent from 6m to the surface, the headaches have stopped.

I've also stopped feeling knackered on the drive home. I figure I must have been ever so slightly bending myself before.

[divingfiredog]

Do you skip breathe, as this can do it also?

J.L.

[Sixsquid]

A bad headache immediately after a dive can be a symptom of DCI. Have you checked for anything else?

[SimonK]

Originally Posted by nickb

I used to get headaches after diving. Since I've started to do much slower ascents from 21m and up with at least a 3 minute stop at 6m and a 2 minute ascent from 6m to the surface, the headaches have stopped.

I've also stopped feeling knackered on the drive home. I figure I must have been ever so slightly bending myself before.

Agree wit this, generous safety stop and very slow ascent from 6m

Simon

[String]

I used to get them a LOT after deeper diving or dives in current. Im 100% certain it was down to CO2 retention on a dive. Headaches and nausea often lasted hours after the dive. Quite often the headache actually started on the dive itself.

A lot rarer these days although i do sometimes get 1 or 2 if my weight is wrong and having an off day. Getting my regs serviced helped somewhat too.

[Rocko Diver]

Lots of suggestions there, here are a couple of answers to some of your questions.

I consider myself to be fit, my bouyancy is good, I do not exceed my no decompression time and I always do a safety stop for 3 mins at 6m. My regs were serviced December and I generally get my air from the same place, 2nd fill from a dive site.

I will monitor it the next couple of dives, thanks for the good advice.

Cheers

[David]

Originally Posted by Rocko Diver

I have started to have head ache after diving, a buddy has suggested that it is something to do with CO2 and the way you breath. I take a couple or Ibuprofen and all is ok. Does anybody experience similar headaches and if it is my breathing, what should I do to prevent it.

Thanks

I used to suffer from this every time I dived and I mean every time. got the same reasons as posted. what I did to solve problem was drink 3 liters of water before dive and a liter or so after problem stoped just like that. Infact the more water I drank the better I felt.

but I do mean 3 liters of water not fizy stuff with loads of sugar in it.


David

[scubadaz1973(cheshire)]

Hi just completed 2 dives at capernwray (today)and on the 2nd dive got a headache, Im putting it down to cold water 9 degrees and I forgot my hood.

CO2 will give you a headache but you mustn`t be exhaling properly and breathing very shallowly for this to build up also its the build up co2 that gives us the urge to breathe not lack of o2.

[MDS]

Originally Posted by Rocko Diver

I have started to have head ache after diving, a buddy has suggested that it is something to do with CO2 and the way you breath. I take a couple or Ibuprofen and all is ok. Does anybody experience similar headaches and if it is my breathing, what should I do to prevent it.

Do your NITROX course if you haven't already done so - you'll have a clearer head if you dive on NITROX (assuming you've exhausted all other curables causes)

[Adrian Kelland]

Originally Posted by MDS

Do your NITROX course if you haven't already done so - you'll have a clearer head if you dive on NITROX (assuming you've exhausted all other curables causes)

Diving on nitrox won't help with a problem caused by a poor breathing habit though. I'm not aware that a higher level of O2 in inhaled gas would make any difference to the level of CO2 in the body post matabalism.

Adrian