Pain at base of skull

[kkobs]

I wonder if anyone of you has suffered such pain?

I first time(and until yesterday the only time so far) had that kind of headache after one harder apnea pool training year ago, and it was not at all the hardest of my training sessions, i had much harder ones without such pain...
And obviously it's not only apnea related, yesterday i played basketball and after some time i got that pain...of course it were not the most exhausting games i've ever played.

I wonder if the reason is possible dehydration(although i drank a LOT of water and a sport drink), but i'm not really sure, because the simptoms for dehydration are different and i had none of them. Besides that pain i was feeling great.

Even one day later, today, it still hurts...

 

[hunlee]

Hi... I experienced a kind of pain at the base of my skull last year when training in egypt.
this was depth training though and i thought it was pressure related.
very painful, there was no way of pushing it, and it happened at shallow depth,
not more than 15m.
I haven't had it since and I'm not sure what caused it, very possibly dehydration
which would support your theory, it was over 40 celsius...
Was yours a stabbing searing pain or a prolonged headache?