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If you are having problems equalizing try ascending a couple of feet and try equalizing. If you smoke don't smoke before you dive, if you have had a cold or have a cold that also makes it much harder to equalize. You can swallow,pinch your nose,yawn. If the pressure will not go away don't disreguard and keep descending you will blow your ear drums. Sometimes it's the way you descend some people can clear there ears better if they go head first some people feet first.
I hope this will help.