heavy earproblems

[Evita]

Originally Posted by trux

On the other note, this kind of ear troubles is often related to teeth problems. It turned to be true in my case too, although I had rather healthy teeth and never had any pains, just yesterday my dentist, when replacing an old filling, found a very deep caries and a devitalized nerve. It was very close to the sinus and just on the side I had the ear troubles. Quite likely it was related.

Unfortunately I already perforated my weakened tympanum when diving two weeks ago. Although the perforation is so small that even the ENT doctor did not see it, I could clearly hear the air escaping when compensating, I have to stay a month out of water Hope it will be OK for my trip to Corsica in July!

Wish you good luck with your ears, and highly recommend to get a very good check of your teeth too.

Any news on this? How is your ear and your teeth, and have you established a clear relation between the two problems?

And please tell us about diving in Corsica too!

[notlimah3]

There is a lot of good info posted to this, but I can’t believe nobody has suggested drying your ears with the ear dryer. Ear problems have always been a problem for me and for years I tried a number of the remedies suggested with varying success, but last year I saw this ear dryer advertised in Sport Diver and thought what the heck, I’ve tried everything else. Seriously, my ears have never felt better or stayed healthier. I used to get at least 3 infections a year and my wife would too as we spend so much time in the water. Since getting this little rechargeable thing called the Sahara Dryear I haven’t used any of those remedies and all is well.

[henjon]

Just another tip my dentist gave me.. If you are in doubt wether the pain is caused by the ears or a tooth problem, then go outside, bite your teeth together and breathe in quickly and for as long as you can! If the problem is in your teeth... trust me, you will feel it;-)

[trux]

It is not really the problem to recognize from where the pain comes. The problem is that you can have frequent ear infections (with pain really coming from ears), but you are getting them primarily because there is some problem in your teath or sinus that you do not necessarily feel at all.