Oh the pain!

I went to the doctor yesterday morning because after scuba diving on Saturday I was fine and then by Sunday evening I was really feeling bad. My ears have been hurting since Saturday but on Sunday my head, teeth, and stomach joined them. Apparently when you surface too fast your body doesn't have enough time to decompress so all the air gets stuck in your body and tries to push it's way out which basically results in headaches, earaches, nausea, etc...Of course the first thing the doctor asked was if I was pregnant. Sheesh! No, I'm not pregnant! If I was pregnant would I be scuba diving? I think not. He said I had a Station 2 Diagnosis which basically means my ears won't equalize under water and he gave me a bunch of medicine and told me to just wait it out until my ears healed. So now I am still a little light headed and my ears are killing me! I can't take my pain meds the doctor prescribed because I have to drive today and I cannot drive on them. Oh well! Scuba class again tonight. I am going, but only for the classroom portion. I will not be getting in the water. :o) Not yet...maybe in a week or so. The Doctor said that I could still Scuba Dive but that I would have to take a Sudafed the day before and the day of the dive to open my ears up so I can equalize. What a pain...all in the pursuit of some good ol' fashioned fun!