Hy everybody!
I am looking for some advice and knowledge concerning the "squeeze"...
I am actually doing dives between 30 and 40 meters. I manage to do those dives relaxed and calm, and even if I hit the sand on 40 meters with my head (happended today) I manage to finish the dive without major problems.
But: I´ve had minor squeeze symptoms at least three times in the past three weeks. I just do not understand why. Relaxation is not the point anymore, not for depths around 40 meters (I can do more...). I do Frenzel and use the mouthfill technique (mouthfill around 20m and then freefall) and I do not equalize my mask below 30 meters anymore as I do not try to do valsalva or any mouthfill recovery if I loose the mouthfill, in this case I just keep on going until I feel pressure in my ears and turn... But still I managed to end up with some symptoms after some sessions.
These symptoms include:
- Pressure in the Chest even after some minutes after deep dive
- eventuelly tiny (really tiny) bits of blood if I try hard to get "something" out of my lungs (e.g. coughing)
- higher resting pulse even some hours after the dive
I do NOT have symptoms like
- spitting blood
- coughing or difficulties breathing
- extreme weakness
- lowered oxygene level (measured with pulse oxymeter)
It´s really strange. the last time I had a little bit of blood I managed to "squeeze" out of my lungs I didn´t feel anything. I felt like I could and wanna dive some more, didn´t feeel bad, even after the session (that I enden immediately of course)
So I am not really sure wheter these really are squeeze symptoms or what goes wrong on my dives... Today after two dives to 40 meters I had the tiniest little bit of blood I ever saw but went running in the afternoon with a really low normal pulse and right now I do not feel anything but a slightly higher pressure in the chest when I really do a deep, deep breath but I do not have to cough at all...
Any ideas? Any help? Any similar experiences?
I am looking for some advice and knowledge concerning the "squeeze"...
I am actually doing dives between 30 and 40 meters. I manage to do those dives relaxed and calm, and even if I hit the sand on 40 meters with my head (happended today) I manage to finish the dive without major problems.
But: I´ve had minor squeeze symptoms at least three times in the past three weeks. I just do not understand why. Relaxation is not the point anymore, not for depths around 40 meters (I can do more...). I do Frenzel and use the mouthfill technique (mouthfill around 20m and then freefall) and I do not equalize my mask below 30 meters anymore as I do not try to do valsalva or any mouthfill recovery if I loose the mouthfill, in this case I just keep on going until I feel pressure in my ears and turn... But still I managed to end up with some symptoms after some sessions.
These symptoms include:
- Pressure in the Chest even after some minutes after deep dive
- eventuelly tiny (really tiny) bits of blood if I try hard to get "something" out of my lungs (e.g. coughing)
- higher resting pulse even some hours after the dive
I do NOT have symptoms like
- spitting blood
- coughing or difficulties breathing
- extreme weakness
- lowered oxygene level (measured with pulse oxymeter)
It´s really strange. the last time I had a little bit of blood I managed to "squeeze" out of my lungs I didn´t feel anything. I felt like I could and wanna dive some more, didn´t feeel bad, even after the session (that I enden immediately of course)
So I am not really sure wheter these really are squeeze symptoms or what goes wrong on my dives... Today after two dives to 40 meters I had the tiniest little bit of blood I ever saw but went running in the afternoon with a really low normal pulse and right now I do not feel anything but a slightly higher pressure in the chest when I really do a deep, deep breath but I do not have to cough at all...
Any ideas? Any help? Any similar experiences?
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