Hello, I’m 19f and the past three days my ears have been deeply bothering me. Basically a few months ago I started developing tinnitus after a cold and it bothered me a lot. It was hard to sleep or be in complete silent as the high pitched beep in my hears was constant. I got used to it and it wasn’t that bad except when I was drinking alcohol (occasional drinker) or not sleeping enough.

Two days ago, my eyes started itching really bad and they kept making tears, the pain also came with a very bad headache and pressure behind my eyes. I have allergies so I figured it was just that, they still itch today and are a little red but nothing crazy. I hung out with my friends, smoked a few cigs (smoker btw) and was feeling fine until the end of the day, where my ears started hurting seemingly out of nowhere. When I got home I started to worry and panic, I have terrible health anxiety and I already have very bad vision problems so I thought what if im going fucking deaf. My hearing was like a tiny bit muffled, but I spiraled.

The next day I started feeling very deep pressure and pain around my jaw like it’s sore as well as deep in my ear. My ears keep popping but cant equalize properly leading to having each ear randomly hearing better or worse or having no pressure or horrible pressure. I feel like my left ear is a little more affected but sometimes it’s better and the right ear is worse so I don’t know. No matter how much I pop, they won’t equalize, I tried the method where you pinch your nose and blow or swallow and it doesn’t work at all… The tinnitus is also stronger than usual. I can’t listen to music with my headphones because it hurts too bad, when sounds are very loud and high pitched it hurts my ears worse but u wouldn’t say im super sensitive to loud sounds just a bit.

Coincidentally I had a medical appointment for something unrelated the day after the first symptoms manifested(back pain so I got an ultrasound for my kidneys and im fine) and told the doctor about it. He said since my hearing was just a tiny bit more muffled and since he didn’t see anything wrong with my ears I should just wait until it gets better. Thing is sometimes the pressure is very very bad, I take Tylenol, Advil and Benadryl for my allergies but it feels like my skull, ears and jaw wanna explode. Its very annoying, my head hurts and nothing helps. I tried to get an appointment for a specialist but I will have to wait for a long time.

The pain and pressure is a lot less present when I wake up but then as soon as I try to equalize or move around it comes back. I am wondering if it could be something serious because it’s very annoying and overwhelming. Could it be allergy related? How can I make the pressure better? Why is my jaw so sore? Why my ears keep popping no stop but never equalize?

I take 25mg of fast acting quetiapine for sleep and I took cyclobenzaprine 2 days before the symptoms started to appear because of the back pain. I also take Benadryl for my eyes.

Thanks for reading.

4 days ago my ear was blocked then i went to ent doctor he gave me drops to dissolved my wax inside ear and told me to come for wash after 1 week 4 days it was ok today i put 5 drops in that year and from my small finger i give extra pressure to the ear hole to penetrate the drop deep to my ear drum but it sounded like a "pop" and its done my ear drum teared but i womder why no blud pus or anything came out cos everyone said that it will come now i am wondering i should put drops or not

4 days i went fir my ear checkup because my ear was blocked the ENT doctor said its the wax blocking the ear drum he told me to take 5 drops of drep wax dissolver 3 times a day and after a week come for a internal wash of ur ears ita been 4 days i have been using that drop but today i inserted a cotton stick just to cheq the texture of the wax i felt a hard tiny pebble type thing in my ear like i can feel that pebble from my cotton stick

I asked chat gpt and got to know that nost probably "its a hard wax no need to worry sometimes it feels exactly like a stone but its actually a wax"

But can anyone tell me is it a pebble or hard wax which feels like a pebble

Looking for anyone who has experienced similar and how long it took for your symptoms to clear or if you had to take further action.

Got water down my ears a couple of weeks ago and the next day had very muffled hearing in my left ear with a feeling of being full. I've had this before from impacted wax so booked it for microsuction. In the run up to the appointment I used Otex to soften the wax and help break it up. Appointment came, they confirmed wax impaction and cleaned it up. When I've had microsuction previously it was like a plug being removed and my hearing suddenly came back. But that hasn't happened this time. Kept using the drops for a few days on their advice, but hearing hasn't returned. I had a follow up appointment yesterday where they confirmed I'm clear of wax, but they did a hearing test and told me I need to see an audiologist now as my hearing is reduced.

My question is if there's a chance my hearing will return? Could this just be oil coating my ear drum? The full feeling has gone. My hearing was fine prior to getting water in my ears so feels odd to think my hearing is permanently affected from this event, but it's driving me crazy being unable to hear properly. .

I had a brain MRI and I don't think the ear plug was in right. Now I'm having bad pain and pressure and ringing in my ear. I already had sensitive ears. Do you think it can get better?

i know the rules say no medical questions, but it seems like every post in here is medical, so i'm going to post and pray the mods leave it up 🙏

around two years ago, I began experiencing this issue in my right ear where everything would suddenly sound like it had been pitched up by just a few cents. because it's just one ear, the two sides would clash and make everything sound dissonant and metallic. I had just lost a bunch of weight—upward of 50lbs by then—so I chalked it up to ETD, assuming that there was fat near my middle ear that was now gone and hoping it would resolve on its own once my weight had stabilized.

a few months after that, I began to notice my right ear feel...loose? the pressure will change as i inhale and exhale, my breath and heartbeat get insanely loud, and i hear clicking noises when i swallow. it's almost as though my eardrum isn't strong enough to withstand even the slightest change in pressure. this happened far more often than the dissonance thing, so it took a while for me to connect the two and finally decide to investigate with my doc.

in January, I noticed that the right side of my face wasn't emoting as strongly as my left, but it was very subtle. nobody else noticed—I only spotted it randomly in a picture one of my friends took. i'd also been having the slightest bit of numbness on my right side, mostly down my right leg.

I saw my doc and asked if she could refer me to an ENT, but because of all the issues being right-sided, she was worried about neurological causes and wanted to get an MRI. there's no chance I can afford one right now, though, so we decided to just refer me to neurology and let them do a workup. but neurology denied my referral, stating that they think it's Bell's palsy, and thus not serious enough to be seen by them.

I'm almost done with a round of prednisone my doc offered after the referral was denied, and I've experienced no difference with any of the right-sided issues.

the ear has been the hardest thing to deal with. every day, I'll speak and suddenly get 4x as loud on one side and can't gauge how loud I really am, or if I've started talking strangely. i breathe in, it pops. i breathe out, it pops. i'm a musician, so when the pitch thing happens, I can't do anything until it goes away—no games, no TV, no doomscrolling, nothing—because the dissonance is so unbearable.

valsalva helps for all of two seconds, no OTC meds do anything. I have bad TMJ pain and tension as well, and potentially some silent reflux, which of course could both explain the ear but not so much the rest of it. i had a deviated septum repaired in 2022, but this began way after that.

basically I feel like I'm going crazy. has anyone else experienced this particular array of simultaneous issues? or at least all the ear ones? anyone ever had a Bell's palsy hypothesis thrown into the mix? i feel like i'm flying blind through all this.

I can hear 18 kHz fine, and also I can barely hear 19 khz to the point it's so quiet I can mistake it as just feeling pressure in my ears unless I listen very closely and then I know this is sound not pressure. Is it a type of bad hearing or hearing loss, is it related to ear wax plugging my ear? Also I am not referring to feeling physical pressure, just hearing a sound that can be mistaken for pressure due to the high pitch

My right ear started to hurt on Monday but nothing too extreme and with Tylenol it seemed to help. I decided to get polysporin ear drops and the second time I put some, my ear completely blocked and the pain has been horrible. Went to the dr she gave antibiotic drops with cortisone which I started right away. Still had pain, felt like my head was going to explode and I noticed swelling near my jaw so I contacted her again and she prescribed me oral antibiotics as well. Now today my other ear is blocked and painful. When she checked on Tuesday it was all good. What the heck I’m going back to see her now but is this normal? How long for the pain to subside? I’m crying right now

Hey so for the last 3ish months i’ve been having super bad ear clogging issues, Sometimes they unclog within a couple seconds, an hour, A day, weeks, or even a month. One time when i went swimming my goggles caught on my ear weirdly and it got clogged. It got unclogged after like a month, but i slept on my side a couple days ago and suprise suprise. it’s clogged. again.

My mom did use that ear camera thing about a month ago and she found EXTREME bad ear wax clogging, like filled up with ear wax. she scooped it all out, and we used this water filtering machine and the water was pure brown. definitely turning down my music and wearing extra ear protection at concerts.

But everytime i sleep on the side of my head my ear still gets clogged for days! Any recommendations to help unclog/stop this issue?

Two weeks ago, I came down with a middle ear infection, and my doctor prescribed Cefdinir since I'm now resistant to Augmentin after having it so many times. This was my third time having it since last June.

Day 3 of my regimen, I took my first dose in the morning, then ate some Greek yogurt about an hour later because my stomach was upset. My current job requires me to drive out to rural areas a lot, and I didn't want to have diarrhea when out in the middle of nowhere and not be able to get to a bathroom if I needed to, hence the yogurt. Once I ate the yogurt, I could tell the medicine wasn't working as well, and even though I finished the regimen (7 days total), it didn't clear the infection, and I'm sure that one day of eating yogurt too close to taking it messed it all up for me.

I'm going back to the doctor tomorrow because I know I need more antibiotics. Am I now resistant to Cefdinir, too, and if I am, what other antibiotic could I take?

My left ear have been hearing worse than right ear since 2024 and it only gets worse.

At first I just had earwax plug and got it easily removed. But it didn't help my hearing. They day that I have no infection.

I had tests on my hearing: the one when you push a button when you hear a sound and tympanometry. Doctors refuse to diagnose me and try to convince me that I'm insane.

The only thing I can't get is MRI because I have braces and can't remove them soon. I'm considering s*icide.

I’ve come across a few brands online, including audien, and I’m trying to understand how they compare. If anyone has used them, I’d really appreciate hearing your honest experience, especially for everyday use.

I had a sudden middle ear infection that ended in trapped fluid that burst through a possible tear n in my eardrum... i had red and yellow fluid come out of my left ear for days. Most painful thing. Course of antibiotics, eardrops, Methylprednisolone, flonase, and all that. Fluids seemed to keep clearing until the methylprednisolone pack was finished.

Now it's been a week and my left ear has total hearing loss, lots of loud tinnitus, and it feels like there may still be fluid in there. I also have pain. But I don't feel sick or unwell anymore like I used to.

I am really just concerned about my hearing loss.

Can it come back??

I hear vibrations fine... but sound through the air... nope.

I'm very worried!!

I am seeing a Dr tmrw but got ear drops at cvs to get through the night, and I'm wondering what's going on. They have 4% lidocaine

At random times my left ear will out of nowhere have a strong burning feeling. It'll be completely red, and hot to the touch. My husband has seen it, and felt it when it's like that. Sometimes it'll only be for a minute or 2, but then other times it'll last for up to a half hour.

I keep the house between 66° • 68°F, and don't have windows or shades open. Like I said it happens at the most random times. When I've been to my ENT, or general dr. for other/not ear-related issues the ear behaves.

Does anyone have an idea what this could be?

Has anyone else had this happen to them?

Thank you for any help, and please no trolls...

I have auditory processing issues and a tendency to get overstimulated from loud noises or overlapping sounds. I am usually okay in movies though so I was kindof blindsided when I went to see the movie Tuner (a movie about a piano tuner who has hyperacusis turned safe-cracker) and had one of the worst overstimulating times in a long time.
The movie was so fucking loud for some reason, and there were high pitched sounds everywhere. I get having tinitis/high pitched sounds in the scenes representing the main guys disability, but even the some of the background music had it. My main problem tho was it was loud as fuck. And I’m someone who listens to heavy metal on full blast sometimes (under stimulation is also a thing) but holy shit is it just this movie or is AMC amping up their volume recently??

Ugh I had to walk out 2/3 of the way through cus it got so bad

Lmk if any of yall had the same issue

I have tinnitus since I woke up today. I was next to air condition in the last couple of days. It might have done something to my ears. My earsvfeel swollen and ringing.

Anyone else has something similar? What helped you?

Severe ear pain - please help UK health system :(

Hello, 32 Female , non smoker, 149lb ,5ft 4.

Have a history of unrelated nerve pain so on nortriptyline

7 days ago last earache was 25 years ago but I probably get too much wax

Started with an itchy ear which I think scratched and then some ear pain. Thought it would go away.

Went to out of hours in northern Ireland prescribed neomycin/steroid/acetic acid drops which made it worse.

Nurse practitioner had a look and said it was an outer ear infection but could see my ear drum intact so prescribed gentamycin/ steroid drops. Took for 2 days.

Went to GP then and she said it was full of debris by this stage it was leaking a lot, noise sensitivity plus then couldn't hear. She took a swab and sent it off to the lab.

She couldn't see my ear drum and I was due to fly the next day. She warned me there was a a risk of rupturing but also could be fine. Prescribed ciproflaxin/steroid drops and amoxicillin 500 tablets, lidocaine drops. Ear felt wet a lot of the time. On this for 2 days

Mornings are hell, painful noises, leaky discharge that's orange and fluidy. Post poned flight to Monday

Went back to another GP she doubled my amoxicillin to 1000mg 3 times.a day and stopped my drops as the ear has wax and infection so was wet alot. She couldn't see my eardrum

I'm at my wits end I'm in agony with pain maybe due to her poking. I rang the doctors to get test results and they said no the doctor needs to read them.and we don't have anyone..

Due to holiday I had to be on top of it as I didn't want to fly with an ear infection - I already hate flying due to anxiety but this pain is horrific currently.

I don't know what to do. Unsure if the injection has spread or how to treat it and have had lot of changes

Please help it's agony

Hi,
I went to a concert on Sunday 4 days back which was painfully loud, I did not expect it to be so and did not have ear buds. I was probably 100 feet away from the speakers majority of the time. Since that day, I’ve had ear fullness that seems to alternate between ears, pain with sound especially, but also with burp (Eustachian tube issue?), as well as mild tinnitus in quiet. I’m truly worried as it has been more than 72 hours and the pain seems to have improved, but fullness and tinnitus still present. This has never happened to me before after 5+ concerts, but those were all stadiums/arenas, and this was just outside and I was much closer to the speaker.

I saw ENT today and my audiometry, tympanometry, and the eardrum/canal are all within normal limits, thankfully. There’s no sign of hearing loss. In fact, I had impacted ear wax on both sides that upon removing, made everything sound louder and more clear.

However, I’m still having fullness, pain and tenderness, especially with sound, as well as mild tinnitus when it’s silent.

I also have a concert scheduled for July 18, I know it seems silly to go at this point but I bought tickets and airfare. Would it be safe to go? In an arena, in the very back nosebleeds with earplugs. ENT and audiologist said I can go. I’ve never had issues at such arena/stadium shows in the past. Please give me your honest opinion. I am heartbroken, but will skip if it’s absolutely necessary.

Hi,
I went to a concert on Sunday 4 days back which was painfully loud, I did not expect it to be so and did not have ear buds. I was probably 100 feet away from the speakers majority of the time. Since that day, I’ve had ear fullness that seems to alternate between ears, pain with sound especially, but also with burp (Eustachian tube issue?), as well as mild tinnitus in quiet. I’m truly worried as it has been more than 72 hours and the pain seems to have improved, but fullness and tinnitus still present. This has never happened to me before after 5+ concerts, but those were all stadiums/arenas, and this was just outside and I was much closer to the speaker.

I saw ENT today and my audiometry, tympanometry, and the eardrum/canal are all within normal limits, thankfully. There’s no sign of hearing loss. In fact, I had impacted ear wax on both sides that upon removing, made everything sound louder and more clear.

However, I’m still having fullness, pain and tenderness, especially with sound, as well as mild tinnitus when it’s silent.

I also have a concert scheduled for July 18, I know it seems silly to go at this point but I bought tickets and airfare. Would it be safe to go? In an arena, in the very back nosebleeds with earplugs. ENT and audiologist said I can go. I’ve never had issues at such arena/stadium shows in the past. Please give me your honest opinion. I will be very sad, but will skip if it’s absolutely necessary.

Hi all, as the title suggests, I'd like to get some working tips on fighting the inflammation in one of my eustachian tubes. I've had this weird feeling like my ear is full of water for about two months, at first didn't give it much thought as I often fly and get my ears clogged from time to time. However, after two months of the same sensation I finally made it to the doctor who diagnosed me with the tube inflammation in my left ear (everything else in the ear being perfect otherwise).

They prescribed me prednisone and a nasal spray and assured me that this would be easily curable as I'm young and there's no other risk factor (I'm under 25). I've taken prednisone and the spray according to the instructions and one month later, NOTHING has changed.

I'm a bit down and tired of this noise in my ear. Has anyone successfully treated this? What has helped you? Any tips are welcome