you know when you ride an elevator or fly in an airplane and your ears pop? my ears did that, and i cant get them undone. i have tried yawning, as previous experiences have shown this to be successful, but nothing will work now. any home remedies?
You might have just caught a flu bug. I had a minor inner ear infection earlier this winter which coincided with a flu.
i sure hope i dont have the flu. an acquaintance of mine has been coughing around me, not covering his mouth, always sneezing, etc. i got a semi-sore throat and a runny nose, and that dang ear problem. any help is appreciated
Just go through the motions of swallowing but really get into it.
With your mouth closed, swallow and move your head around. You should feel the pressure equalize in your ears after just a few swallows.
The harder the swallow the better and stretch your neck out in all directions.
thanks for the adive. anybody else have good advice for later occurances???
Try a decongestant to aid the clearing of the eustachian tubes if swallowing etc doesn’t help.
IANAENT but it sounds like eustachian tube problems.
You could try pinching your nose closed and gently blowing air through it. This will sometimes open the eustachian tube/s and allow your eardrum to return to normal.
If you continue to have this problem for more then a few days, go to your doctor. It could be an ear infection, a problem with your ear drum or something else.
The problem could be a reverse block,
I drive into the open pit mine several times a day and being a SCUBA diver and always enjoying the internal barometer we have, have asked co-workers if they can feel the pressure. Most don,t feel it and the qualifier here is; Their mouth is going to fast to feel (or trap) the pressure. But just the other day my co-worker said he experiences pressure on ascent. Even SCUBA diving I never experienced a reverse block.
As in diving, several days before a dive i will exercise my ears. By pinching the nostrils off and a gentle puff of the cheeks will inflate the ear drums, then a little rocking motion of the jaw and they neutralize.
The danger is if one inflate too much you can injure yourself. and then with a minor injury it can be severely injured because you didn’t recognize the minor injury and attempted again more forcefully to equalize.
The problem could be a reverse block,
I drive into the open pit mine several times a day and being a SCUBA diver and always enjoying the internal barometer we have, have asked co-workers if they can feel the pressure. Most don,t feel it and the qualifier here is; Their mouth is going to fast to feel (or trap) the pressure. But just the other day my co-worker said he experiences pressure on ascent. Even SCUBA diving I never experienced a reverse block.
As in diving, several days before a dive i will exercise my ears. By pinching the nostrils off and a gentle puff of the cheeks will inflate the ear drums, then a little rocking motion of the jaw and they neutralize.
The danger is if one inflate too much you can injure yourself. and then with a minor injury it can be severely injured because you didn’t recognize the minor injury and attempted again more forcefully to equalize.