Ears after diving a lot

[Dane@Scuba-Now]

Yeah, it happens to me as well. As long as it isn't painful or causes anything else to suddenly happen then you should be solid.

 

[Corlett]

Also I do not like the mask I am using, besides old & leaky the plastic frame ( around the lense ) is too close to the nose guard which combined with the regulator in you´r mouth restricts acess to pinch you´r nose to help equalizing, I will be taking a new mask on my next dive and will take this into consideration the next time I buy one..


A oversized / exagerated lense with a big rigid plastic frame combined with regulator in mouth does not help us less experienced divers to equalize...

 

[WB2GLP]

Corlett, sleep with your bad ear toward the pillow. Has anyone examined your ear yet? Are the drops over the counter?

 

[Corlett]

Corlett, sleep with your bad ear toward the pillow. Has anyone examined your ear yet? Are the drops over the counter?

Not been examined yet, I don´t think it is too serious, only hurts a little when I put drops in ( Mack´s Dry-n-clear, ear drying aid ) sold over the counter, I will not put any more drops in and indeed as you rightly say sleep with the bad ear ( right ) on the pillow, with any luck it wil drain naturally during the night and no doctor required, if not .... It´s just one of those things that happens and will need to sit in the waiting room for hours at the health centre...



---------- Post added June 21st, 2014 at 01:27 PM ----------

Sorry for Hijacking your thread Simon J Rogers

This morning I couldn´t take it any longer, stabbing pain in elft ear, went to doctors, result, infection & inflamation.
an 8 day course of eardrops, 8 / 8 Hrs, nasal spray, antiinflamatory & antibiotics 12 / 12 Hrs.

Hope to be back in the water soon, will go to the gym whilst waiting to dive again and improve my fitness & resistence as well as study the theory..

 

[Denis_D]

I'm a new diver, as well. Completed my open water diver cert last fall and haven't yet been in the water this year. After my last OWD, I noticed that my right ear took about a week to normalize. It was s quite annoying but not painful. Went to the doc and found nothing out of order. I'm 62 and he said that as a late starter, mu cells, including ear drum, s have less collagen than a younger person and therefore not as pliable. As such, it may take a bit of time for my ears to condition to the flexing due to pressure change. I also suffer from seasonal allergies. He felt the issue had more to do with that, so he put me on a permanent regimen of Flonase, twice a day. He assured me that continued diving at gradually increased depths, combined with the Flonase, I would be in good shape. I hope that he's right. I absolutely love this new sport and was, frankly, a bit gun shy about going down and hurting my ears. Now I can't wait to see how it goes. I too need to be working on buoyancy and other basic fundamentals.


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[Corlett]

I think it may happen to all us less experienced diver´s
Hence the reason as te quiz reviews say, if you can´t equalize you should , stop ascend a metre / few feet and attempt to equalize again

 

[The Kraken]

The same thing happened to me when I first started flying.
I think the body becomes more aware of pressure changes as one changes pressure levels more frequently, don't really know, I'm not a doctor.

But I did find that it wasn't a bad thing.

Safe dives . . . . .
. . . safer ascents

the K