mbomb

Sounds like sinuses (I used to get that all the time). You might have an infection (it is very rarely related to colds) and the inflamation is causing an impediment to air flow/balance. Your local bone-thrower will probably just give you an antibiotic and you'll be sorted.

A lot of the old-timers will nod their heads knowingly here: Stop jumping (or even slow down) and you put on weight , or to put it more precisecly (for all the physics-minded thread hyjackers out there) get fat. I put this down to a number of factors, firstly skydiving is a lot more excercise than most people realise. Dirt diving, walking around, packing, lifting, it all adds up. Plus there's the adrenalin which must be burned off. The other thing is that you tend to eat less while at the DZ all weekend (mostly because eating takes up valuable skydive/drinking/BS time). best solution for those wishing to control their weight is to do a bit of extra walking. If you own a heart-rate monitor use it to keep your heart at about 60% of max and the weight just falls off (I lost 26kg that way). Glenn......