Ear Ache ?

[Big Daddy]

Has anybody noticed a ringing in your ear and maybe feels like cotton in them ? Pressure change maybe ? Not really a pain just annoying.

[Froggy]

Tinnitus

Welcome to my world. Noise induced hearing loss. The high pitched ringing is continous and annoying as heck.

I'm headed to the VA on Jan 7th. for a hearing test. Nothing they can do about the ringing.

I took a hearing test in Scotland years ago. The doc told me I had noise induced hearing loss and would have trouble hearing women and children's voices, I said "Great".

[sailor]

Mama always told me, I'd go blind

[Burnadell]

Welcome to my world. Noise induced hearing loss. The high pitched ringing is continous and annoying as heck.

Me, too! I have had constant ringing in my ears for 30 years ever since a guy shot a .30-06 with the muzzle about 4 feet from my ear. I finally got hearing aids for both ears afew years ago...doesn't help much.

Huh? What'd ya say?

[jsk]

I have that too! Also, I've spent 3 days in the water @ great wolf lodge. Now, I have an ear infection! I'll be huntin' the last week of the season with an ear ache.

[Deer Tracks]

Sinus pressure maybe? Fluid in the middle ear has to drain through the eustachian tube. If the pressure continues to build you can get an ear infection. Try poping your ears. This will open the eustachian tubes, allowing fluid from the middle ear to drain to the nasopharynx. Taking decongestants will help too.

[bowdidiller]

my ears ring all the time probally from being on tractors all my life hope you get better high blood pressure can cause ringing in the ears also or make it worse

[Big Daddy]

I've been to a ENT speacialist and informed about 5 years ago I had Tinnitus. Done alot of reading and there is nothing that can cure it. I stay on my kids about ear/eye protection. This is something that has just come about last couple of days. Think I'll take Sikas' advice.

[Rotag]

If it is recent and currwnt ear pain use a hair dryer to blow in the ear. Use the low speed and medium heat setting its kinda like a heating pad for the ear.

[Big Daddy]

not really a pain, just stuffed up. Man if I keep replying to this I am going to lose my man card on account of being a wimp.

[Stuck]

Mama always told me, I'd go blind

funny

I was ready to go to an ear doctor for the ringing after about five years of listening to it constantly. About nine months ago there was an article in tf&g or something about shooters ear. Basically the cause of ringing is from small hairs inside your ear that detect sound waves being bent over and damaged from lond sounds. Bad news is like others have said, there is nothing they can do for it.

[az2tx]

I've got the same thing in my left ear, the worse my allergies/sinuses are the worse it gets.

[Snakelover]

Sinus pressure maybe? Fluid in the middle ear has to drain through the eustachian tube. If the pressure continues to build you can get an ear infection. Try poping your ears. This will open the eustachian tubes, allowing fluid from the middle ear to drain to the nasopharynx. Taking decongestants will help too.

What she said. Might also consider trying a neti pot and/or Mucinex.

[RS3]

Spring break '95 I had that cotton in the ear feeling for a few days. Some years I'd get it, some years I wouldn't. Fast forward to June 2007. Spent a weekend in F'burg hunting axis deer. When I got about 1/2 mile from home I started getting dizzy. Managed to get in the house and spend about 2.5 hours on the kitchen floor. If I moved my head, I'd vomit.

Made an appointment with an ENT. The day of the appointment I went to Dell Diamond for a meeting. Dizzy spell hit when I was nearing the parking lot. 3 hours layed over in the seat, 90*F, puking in the passenger floorboard.

After numerous visits to the ENT and more of these dizzy spells the doctor decided to do an MRI, dizzy test and test me for allergies. Allergic to 36 of 39 things. Grass was the worst one. At the time I was mowing about 5 yards a week.

Now, my wife mows our yard and I get three allergy shots each week! Dr. asked if there was anything else I didn't like to do around the house because he could get me out of doing it by saying I was allergic to it

Glad to know it was just allergies and not a brain tumor or something. I'd gladly take 100 allergy shots a day to avoid the dizzy spells I was having!

Found out a couple weeks later that a high school buddy was suffering from the same thing. Before that I was unable to find anyone with this condition. And I search the internet alot!

You might want to go talk to your doctor. If this is the problem, you don't want to wait til the dizziness starts!

Let me know if you have any questions.