# Clogged Ears--Please Help! **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 4, 2001, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clogged-ears-please-help/56755 "2001-03-04T22:08:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gambit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Gambit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gambit)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2001, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clogged-ears-please-help/56755/21 "2001-03-05T20:58:19Z")
So far the pressure has changed very slightly. I can hear things at a slightly greater distance than I was able to before. Heat seems to have made this easier to deal with–I’ve tried various combinations of heat and steam, and the pressure has changed. I’m still trying everyone’s suggestions, and I’d like to thank everyone again. It’s nice to know that twenty or so people care about my ear. 🙂 A thought for toad: how does one correct a fault in the “internal structure of [their] head?” Is there a shop that handles this kind of thing? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2001, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clogged-ears-please-help/56755/22 "2001-03-05T21:20:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gambit \* > \*\* > A thought for toad: how does one correct a fault in the “internal structure of [their] head?” Is there a shop that handles this kind of thing? 😃 \*\* I wish. Get someone under the hood and hammer out some more space. My doctor said that, if the sinus infections continued to be chronic and severe (haven’t had a BAD infection/clogging in more than a year), I could look into possibly having surgery to reduce/remove my tonsils/adenoids, thereby opening things up more. Doesn’t seem necessary, though. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2001, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clogged-ears-please-help/56755/23 "2001-03-06T19:42:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by barbitu8 \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Qadgop the Mercotan \* > > \*\* nless you have a perforation in the eardrum, it won’t reach either the middle or inner ear. But physical contact with the drum can cause dizziness. > > > > Qadgop, MD \*\* > > Two years ago I had a severe bout with the flu and was in bed for a week. Every time I tried to get up, I would get vertigo. I had to stumble to the bathroom and hardly ate at all. So, after several days with the vertigo, I, in desperation, squirted my swimmer’s ear concoction (isopropyl alcohol and apple cider vinegar) into my ears. Within minutes, my vertigo disappeared. > > Now, Qadgop, that may be coincidence. Or it may not. Isn’t it at all possible for the solution to permeate into the labryinth? > > When I was well enough to see a doctor (I couldn’t see him before - I was too sick) I told him about it. His jaw dropped to the floor. He was rendered speechless. \*\* I still doubt that anything other than the stimulatory effect of the solution penetrated to the labyrinth. If physical contact of the drum can start vertigo in someone who doesn’t have it, it’s no great stretch to me that the same stimulation could stop it in someone who has it. Of course, it could make it worse, too. Guess you were fortunate! ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2001, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clogged-ears-please-help/56755/24 "2001-03-06T20:04:54Z")
I always have that sort of problem. The stuff I get from the pharmacist makes the wax nice and oozy but it won’t come out by itself. Whenever I get the Doctor or his nubile nurse to syringe my ears they always say the wax should have drained out by itself its so runny. Guess my ears are just odd. Seriously though I did have a really bad cold that ended up with an infection in my eustachian (sp?) tube and it was bloody annoying. You don’t want this. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clogged-ears-please-help/56755.md?page=1)