PennyOR
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Hi there, I'm hoping someone can give me some advice on the age old ear problem please. I did quite a bit of diving before I had kids, and last week went back to it after a 20 year break. I always used to have terrible problems equalising my ears, lots of pain and it would take me forever to descend, but I always got there in the end. After a dive my ears would often feel blocked for a while but nothing more than that. However this time was different. The first dive, I found it very hard to equalise until one ear felt a slight pop and water rushed in. No pain, and I continued the dive. Ears were blcoked afterwards but not sore, and I did some more dives over the next few days. again I had some pain on descent but not too bad and I did manage to equalise as I was descending. However, after the final dive (8 days ago now) both ears were very painful and felt blocked. I'm seeing an ENT this afternoon for possible ruptured ear drum, but my question is A) If it IS ruptured is this the end of diving for me forever? and B) Is there anything I can do to make my ears easier to equalise? I often have trouble on planes too, with ear pain.
Thanks for your help.
Thanks for your help.