[RIbum]

I have been around water all of my life. Just recently I started to do some free diving and am happy in the 15-25feet/4.5-7.5meter range. I can equalize, and practice it when I'm not in the water.

However, my right ear does not want to follow the plan! I feel like I have to pressurize so forcefully that I'm worried about my left eardrum. I end up equalizing my left, and my right starts to suffer to the point of pain!!! This is getting so bad that at the end of the diving when I start to head back to the beach after 2-3 hours of diving, when I spit out the phlegm that has accumulated there is fresh blood. Not a lot, and it never persists after I clear out the big gunk everyone gets. This blood is probably from the sinuses and back of throat from the high pressure frenzel maneuver

Are there any dry exercises I can do to help my right ear? I need to make it easier to equalize that side, because I'm either blowing out my left or not equalizing enough. Is this lopsidedness common?