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Cheers for the responses. Just to clarify - I was not asking for medical advice on this thread. I am seeing my doctor about that. The medical people are all telling me that I should be fine in a few days and off prescription painkillers by Tuesday, and the jump is not until Saturday. If the doctor says no, I don't jump, simple as that. What i was looking for was feedback from people who have done jumps and know what it actually involves, because if I'm being told "yes you're fine" by the doctor, but those in the know are saying that it takes a lot out of your neck to dive and they would be thinking twice before doing it, I have more feedback to base my final decision on than simply relying on the doctor why may never have thought about skydiving in their life! Everyone I know has said "oh sod it just jump anyway" but I realise that none of them have jumped out of a plane - at least seeing that people who have jumped are coming up with differing opinions on this thread has given me things to consider when I go for my final check with my doctor. So thanks for the comments, they are much appreciated. It's a tandem by the way.

Hi there, On Tuesday I was in a minor collision when the coach I was travelling on hit a car (at low speed). The collision gave me minor whiplash, and I am on various prescription painkillers right now. Here's my problem. In May, I and five others began fundraising for a charity skydive in aid of our friend's sister who was killed in the London bombings last year. We managed to set a date - August 26 (11 days after my collision) - for the team skydive and have raised a decent amount of money for the charity foundation set up in memory of our friend's sister. My worry now is whether, even if my whiplash pain clears up by next Saturday - 11 days after the incident - I should really be doing a skydive. We can't rearrange as four divers run pubs and it's taken 2 months to find a suitable date - so the chance of finding another suitable date before the weather turns bad is nigh on impossible. I did the main part of fundraising and press promotion for this, so I'd be absolutely gutted if I miss out, and I really want to do it. But I also realise that further injury is not a good thing! We're contacting the people arranging the skydive to see what they feel, but i wanted to hear from other skydivers about personal opinions on this - it would be good to hear from people other than the ones we are paying to do the dive with!