ear

Hello scubaboard community, I am not diving but i have experienced similar ear barotrauma symptoms that divers get, i have developed tinnitus and decreased hearing after painful ear syringing at a doctor even though my eardrum is intact, do you think it goes away over time? It has been 2 months...

My fiance and I just finished our open water diving class. About 8 years ago he perforated his eardrum. It has since fully healed but he has had lasting tinnitus. When we were doing our open water dives he had trouble equalizing in the ear that he perforated (not positive they are related but...

Hi guys, I'm new here and hope I post correctly and maybe find some help in my very sad situation. I am not sure if im here in the correct address but I gonna try. I started to scuba dive November 2020 and I fell in love straight away. Since November I've been diving 22 times, did all courses...

Hi everyone, I've posted before about eustachian tube dysfunction. I dived once in March (only swimming pool) with a snuffle. After that, I saw a dive doctor who diagnosed me with ETD and gave me steroids to clear it up. When those didn't work, I was referred to an ENT specialist. Please note...

Hi, new to Scuba. Had first confined dives this week in local pool (9ft max depth). Did well on first night drills- didn’t particularly like the mask flood/clearing but who does? Had LOTS of trouble equalizing on our first “swim around”. Did a ton of research on clearing techniques, practiced...

Hello, My spouse and I are thinking of getting our PADI Open Water certification this year. We have both been on one "beginner" dive before. My husband had a prosthesis put in his ear when he was 5. The reason for the prosthesis was that he had frequent ear infections, which created scar tissue...

Hello everyone, I'm here desperately looking for advice. 3 years ago I got my diving certificate. Ever since I have been dealing with occasional reverse blocks in my left ear while on land. I have yet to find any pattern to when it occurs. It is highly frustrating. My voice inside my head...

Two days ago I failed to properly equalize my ears while snorkeling, and a few minutes after getting out of the water my left ear started ringing. There was no pain or sensation of fullness, maybe some numbness of the ear lobe. I only did a few dives and the deepest dive was only to 8mfw but all...

Warning, some content may be complete rubbish, some of the healing effects may be all in my head! This information is based on my observations, good old common sense, and stuff I’ve learned along the way as a working dive professional in remote areas. Are you traveling to an exotic dive...

Hi, So I went diving about 3ish weeks ago, I was having a hard time equalising my right ear but I managed to get there in the end though it took a while and the 2 dives went fine. But about 2 days later I woke up one morning and my right ear was absolutely blocked, and still is blocked to this...

My diving buddy had her first dive today at Nemo33, one ear was fine the other wouldn't equalize at just 1.5! We were told to take her to a diving doctor tomorrow before our next lesson on the day after, but we are on holiday in Belgium and so need to find an English diving doc at short notice...

I am practicing learning to swim at a local community pool. I don't have any SCUBA training yet, though I may see if I can do a Discover Diving in a pool to try it. I'm slowly moving up to more advanced things. Just this last week I started practicing ways to jump in at the deep end face-first...

Hello, I have been worried a lot about my ear equalization. The last time I went diving in the pool, my ear drum was on the brink of popping. So, yesterday I trained again. I remembered what some people here told me about reverse block, going slowly at my own rate, and it worked! My ears are...

Hello, I was training in the 5meter pool for around 30 minutes. When I was surficing at the end of training I experienced a pressure pain in my ear, it felt so bad that I quickly forgot about the equipment I was wearing and my teacher. The pain initially went away when I blew something out of my...