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Thew following are the symptoms and how they came up
I had a brief three day stint of diving in the
swimming pool. I have since remained in the same
condition of hearing. I am wondering if you could tell me what the condition is exactly. I went underwater in a regular pool 9 ft. deep. I attempted to stay under water at the deepest level for as long as possible. therefore I went to the bottom and stayed there for around 75 to 90 seconds or more. I was building endurance in holding breath and attempting to increases the carotid arteries so blood flow would increase to the brain..this in turn is helpful in enhancing intelligence. It didn't work well since the ears started to feel more clogged the longer I did it. I did 20 to 30 descents to go about 30 minutes of underwater time a day for three days in a row.
the procedure: I put silicone ear plugs in my ears. I plugged the nose with the index finger and the thumb pressing like a clothes pin since my nose can't take any water or else it just goes up. Then I took a deep breath and inflated the cheeks untill they bulged so I would have enough oxygen to last for the long breath holding underwater. Then I used the cement ladder at the side to go down since without it , it would be hard to go down at all. With its aid I lowered myself to the bottom. I also didn't want to be to loud since other people were in the pool so I kept as much of the air in my cheeks instead of just expelling it..sure a few bubbles left but not as much as I wanted..so I withheld exhaling the air inside. It was like pressure pushing internally against my ears. The first day was slightly ok, the next day was worse, and the third day was overt in the pressure and fullness of the ears, I could not go back after that. It was like going beyond a point. My ears felt disoriented, like listening to a sea shell, noisy. It felt like the water atmosphere and environment down below had stayed up above.. so sounds were distorted.. muffled distant
Some of the symptoms are as follows..
The ears feel clogged..it is like this metaphor: a
person listens to tv at a comfortable level..Then a
blanket is placed over the audio speakers..then the
sound becomes muffled and less discernable..The person
increases the audio level.and can understand better
yet the underlying muffling is still present. That
describes the general effect.
for example: THE WIND....when I am outside and the
wind approaches and passes me I sense its presence but
it doesn't seem to enter my ear(like before)..it just
passes..it feels like my ears are numb and
discconnected to the sound..
This creates less closeness to the environment..it is
like having cotton balls blocking the ears..it's a bit
frustrating when sound doesn't behave in the same
manner..traveling straight into the canal and bouncing
back...instead it just registers outside the ears..
When I walk my footsteps are now faint whispers.before
it was audible..When I breath loudly I can hear my
breath only in front of my face..not in the ears...and
it seems like a flat sound..one dimensional...wheras
before it would travel straight into the ear and out
to the room. I don't sense where the breathing sound
goes as before..it just stays in front of me..I miss
before when the sound would move through the entire
room. The passage of sound from one place to another
is lost..it just seems that sounds just appear rather
than provide cues to where they came from..
Internally, When I am out of shape my heart beats are
loud and audible in my ears(it pounds) but after the
diving when I exercise it is a faint, weak signal.
When I went into a pasture..I could only sense the
silence..or when in a supermarket or store.
I wonder if this condition will clear..It has now been
7 months.. I feel somewhat
disoriented..displaced..because what I could sense and
hear before very clearly and straight into me..has now
shifted...
Do you have any solutions? Should I take some
medications like sudafed or ibuprofen?
When I last visited the audiologist he reccomended
something like ibuprofen..his tests measured the
vibration with tympanometry..and it showed bell-shaped
curves(normal)..therefore it excluded water..and
perhaps pressure as the culprit.
When I did my underwater diving...the ear pressure
occured slowly..each day was progressively worse..I
would inhaled deeply..filling my chest with oxygen
before descending..then I would hold as much possible
while down below at the bottom to minimize
exhaling...and then come up to expell the oxygen..
Could faulty breathing be the problem..perhaps I
didn't equalize the pressure by exhaling while going
down..and I did feel pressure in my head when at the
bottom..it seemed that pressure was pushing at my head
and ears inwardly.. Maybe the ears were popping,
expanding to compensate for the excess oxygen..or
carbon dioxide...Could the ear structure have changed
to the deep water depth..because I still feel like
being underwater..the distortion of sound..slow
waves...It is akin to anyone under water..the sound
and environment is different..delayed..blurry..
Maybe I need the hyperbaric chamber? Should I try
Afrin? I have considered hearing aids..but I don't
know which might apply to me... The audiologist
measure db ranges from 250 to 80000---they came out
as---approx.
--5--5--10--10--15---20---10--10--15--etc. so the
range averages between 10-15 db.
I am not certain where to proceed next. Do you have
any other diving patients that have these symptoms,
that are in this situation..what did you do for
them...how did they improve?
sincerely,
Alan M
I had a brief three day stint of diving in the
swimming pool. I have since remained in the same
condition of hearing. I am wondering if you could tell me what the condition is exactly. I went underwater in a regular pool 9 ft. deep. I attempted to stay under water at the deepest level for as long as possible. therefore I went to the bottom and stayed there for around 75 to 90 seconds or more. I was building endurance in holding breath and attempting to increases the carotid arteries so blood flow would increase to the brain..this in turn is helpful in enhancing intelligence. It didn't work well since the ears started to feel more clogged the longer I did it. I did 20 to 30 descents to go about 30 minutes of underwater time a day for three days in a row.
the procedure: I put silicone ear plugs in my ears. I plugged the nose with the index finger and the thumb pressing like a clothes pin since my nose can't take any water or else it just goes up. Then I took a deep breath and inflated the cheeks untill they bulged so I would have enough oxygen to last for the long breath holding underwater. Then I used the cement ladder at the side to go down since without it , it would be hard to go down at all. With its aid I lowered myself to the bottom. I also didn't want to be to loud since other people were in the pool so I kept as much of the air in my cheeks instead of just expelling it..sure a few bubbles left but not as much as I wanted..so I withheld exhaling the air inside. It was like pressure pushing internally against my ears. The first day was slightly ok, the next day was worse, and the third day was overt in the pressure and fullness of the ears, I could not go back after that. It was like going beyond a point. My ears felt disoriented, like listening to a sea shell, noisy. It felt like the water atmosphere and environment down below had stayed up above.. so sounds were distorted.. muffled distant
Some of the symptoms are as follows..
The ears feel clogged..it is like this metaphor: a
person listens to tv at a comfortable level..Then a
blanket is placed over the audio speakers..then the
sound becomes muffled and less discernable..The person
increases the audio level.and can understand better
yet the underlying muffling is still present. That
describes the general effect.
for example: THE WIND....when I am outside and the
wind approaches and passes me I sense its presence but
it doesn't seem to enter my ear(like before)..it just
passes..it feels like my ears are numb and
discconnected to the sound..
This creates less closeness to the environment..it is
like having cotton balls blocking the ears..it's a bit
frustrating when sound doesn't behave in the same
manner..traveling straight into the canal and bouncing
back...instead it just registers outside the ears..
When I walk my footsteps are now faint whispers.before
it was audible..When I breath loudly I can hear my
breath only in front of my face..not in the ears...and
it seems like a flat sound..one dimensional...wheras
before it would travel straight into the ear and out
to the room. I don't sense where the breathing sound
goes as before..it just stays in front of me..I miss
before when the sound would move through the entire
room. The passage of sound from one place to another
is lost..it just seems that sounds just appear rather
than provide cues to where they came from..
Internally, When I am out of shape my heart beats are
loud and audible in my ears(it pounds) but after the
diving when I exercise it is a faint, weak signal.
When I went into a pasture..I could only sense the
silence..or when in a supermarket or store.
I wonder if this condition will clear..It has now been
7 months.. I feel somewhat
disoriented..displaced..because what I could sense and
hear before very clearly and straight into me..has now
shifted...
Do you have any solutions? Should I take some
medications like sudafed or ibuprofen?
When I last visited the audiologist he reccomended
something like ibuprofen..his tests measured the
vibration with tympanometry..and it showed bell-shaped
curves(normal)..therefore it excluded water..and
perhaps pressure as the culprit.
When I did my underwater diving...the ear pressure
occured slowly..each day was progressively worse..I
would inhaled deeply..filling my chest with oxygen
before descending..then I would hold as much possible
while down below at the bottom to minimize
exhaling...and then come up to expell the oxygen..
Could faulty breathing be the problem..perhaps I
didn't equalize the pressure by exhaling while going
down..and I did feel pressure in my head when at the
bottom..it seemed that pressure was pushing at my head
and ears inwardly.. Maybe the ears were popping,
expanding to compensate for the excess oxygen..or
carbon dioxide...Could the ear structure have changed
to the deep water depth..because I still feel like
being underwater..the distortion of sound..slow
waves...It is akin to anyone under water..the sound
and environment is different..delayed..blurry..
Maybe I need the hyperbaric chamber? Should I try
Afrin? I have considered hearing aids..but I don't
know which might apply to me... The audiologist
measure db ranges from 250 to 80000---they came out
as---approx.
--5--5--10--10--15---20---10--10--15--etc. so the
range averages between 10-15 db.
I am not certain where to proceed next. Do you have
any other diving patients that have these symptoms,
that are in this situation..what did you do for
them...how did they improve?
sincerely,
Alan M
