[patrick.n]

Hi all, I wonder if anyone has experienced anything like this..
I was at the lake on saturday for my first open water experience. First off, a few warm up duck dives to a couple of metres. All good. Feeling great. Very comfortable, relaxed and happy.

Then on to a line. Now this was my first experience of pulling down a line, and shortly after leaving the surface began to feel a stabbing pain in the back of the head that got worse with increasing depth, and lessened as I came back up, but persisted slightly for some time afterwards.

It was not an equalisation problem, the ears were fine, this was round the back of the head at the top of the neck.. I never got past 3 metres or so, and after a couple more tries to see what was going on it was bad enough that I could only get my head down about a metre. I stopped trying and had a break for lunch.
A couple of hours later tried again with the same result - duckdive very comfortably and relaxing, but pulling down the line from the surface I got The Pain.

I'll be seeing my chiropractic guru tomorrow morning, but in the meantime I wondered if anyone was familiar with this?

Patrick