ear pain

[hugedodge2000]

My ears have felt like they have been stopped up since my last dive. After a couple days my right ear started to hurt. It is kind of an off and on pain. Today the pain is moving down to my jaw. Anyone ever had this happen??? Do I just have moisture stuck in my ear or what??

 

[aboalreem]

see a Doctor, before things go worse

 

[jbd]

Its possible that you may have forced saliva into your middle ear resulting in the stopped up feeling. With the developement of hurting progressing to pain moving down the jaw its quite possible you have a middle ear infection. Definitely I would recommend a trip to the doctor.

 

[fyh]

I definitely agree. See a doc. If the pain is spreading, it's likely an infection.

It's very possible that the cause of it all is impacted earwax.
Something similar happened to me and another student in my OW class.

The other student's situation sounded like yours, in that it was painful and he couldn't equalize for subsequent dives. He had to drop out of the class and go back after a visit to the doctor.

Mine was less serious. Even though I was slightly deaf in my left ear for several days, there was no pain involved and I was able to equalize pressure with no problem.

My blockage was able to be resolved by several days use of wax removal solution and repeated flushing. Had there been any pain, or if I had to drop out of the class, I would have surely seen a doc right away.

Felix

 

[hugedodge2000]

Well I can equalize and its not really spreading it was just hurting for a minute. and its not really painfull its just annoying. My mom(who is a doc.) told me to give it a few days. Thinks it may be a middle ear blockage and to just keep the ear clean.