Swollen eye lids and headache after heavy squats

Medical Q&A [Moderated]
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I’m 41 yo and into an advanced novice portion of my SSLP. Today I was doing a challenging top set of 5 for squats and had a pretty hard grind on my 5th rep. this caused a headache and a little facial pain and some weird painful sensation that feels like its on the inside of my eyes. Fast forward to the end of the session and my eyelids are red and swollen and I have what looks like tiny red spots around my eyes on my face (maybe burst capillaries.)

Is this something I should be concerned about? This has never happened before and is just causing very minor discomfort. Thanks docs!

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Getting small, faint petechiae on the face is fairly common and isn’t automatically worthy of great concern on its own.

As for the red and swollen eyelids, on the other hand … I don’t really know.

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Thanks for the reply Austin.

I thought I might be coming down with good ol’ exploding head syndrome :wink: