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?
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?