Head Ache's after Diving

[ardhill]

Originally Posted by buchhawk

This may be rubbish but.
I recently bought a new mouth piece, they had a fancy one that you put in hot water and it moulds to your mouth.
Anyway the woman in the LDS said that it helped with head aches, as you don't bit on the mouth piece as hard, worth a thought
Ken

You could be right Ken as some people bite hard or grind their teeth in the night and awake with headaches. Me, I have to try and remind myself to hold the mouthpiece in Actually I like the Apeks ones, they sort of hold themselves in place without having to bite on them.

[Guffnuts]

Just watching my videos of Vobster yesterday and you can quite clearly hear me skip breathing quite a lot of the time. Thats a very bad habit i need to curb...and yes I had a headache after my second dive. (was diving EANx32)

[adamr]

I was diving yesterday and suffered a head ache after the first dive and a really bad one after the second, the fresh air seemed to clear it. The only things I have changed are (1) Diving on nitrox and (2) Using my Vytec DS, since I have been using these my head aches have been terrible. At the moment we have been putting it down to dehydration but some of these comments are worth a try.

[Paul Burgess]

I used to get headaches which I am sure was due to CO2 retention - itself resulting from skip breathing.

As a test, try doing a dive and make an effort to breathe normally (don't worry about air consumption) and see if you get a headache after this.

[Richard Mason]

I dived The Nord on air (42M) back in 2000, at that time, my deepest dive yet and suffered a shocking headache, which awent on for a couple of days. Really painful. Everything was within NDL, planned and ran it off both tables (DCIEM) and computer for ascent rate and did 5 at 10 and 5 at 5 precautionaries - it was one of the few times I've dived a square profile since coming here.

I now wonder about that one as since then, my ability to do mental arithmetic and really concentrate for a long period of time has gone to pot, which concerns me a bit.

Bit late now though.

[MAKING BUBBLES]

i came on here searching answers for my headaches when i was getting them and after the advice of the wise and all knowing chaps and lasses on here i changed my regs to some better ones and i changed my mouth peice to a comfy bite one....and hey presto my headaches stopped.

[purple vonny]

Originally Posted by MAKING BUBBLES

i came on here searching answers for my headaches when i was getting them and after the advice of the wise and all knowing chaps and lasses on here i changed my regs to some better ones and i changed my mouth peice to a comfy bite one....and hey presto my headaches stopped.

It's good to know we are useful sometimes!! Glad to hear you resoved your problems. Edit.....
I've just realised that I didn't contribute. However, that's what I would have recommended because that cured my headaches. I changed from some crappy old Mares regs to nice Apeks ones and put a big soft silicone mouthpiece on (so I didn't have to bite to keep in in place).