Ragweed season has sprung a new one on me -- right ear plugged. Anyone have luck with a home remedy approach? That ear has the same tiny opening to it my dad has -- hard to get ear plugs into even when not swollen shut.

Thanx!

Barry

Not me! Have had an ear plug a couple of times, each meant a trip to the Dr to clean and flush it out.

I've had the same issue? never had any allergies of any kind
every now and again I will wake up and my right ear is so plugged ,I cant hear,wierd

Wax? equal parts warm water and hydrogen peroxide. Pour a little in the ear with your head on a pillow and let it work for about 15 minutes and flush. May have to do it a couple times. Don't use a q-tip.

Waterpik. The little machine folks use on their teeth.

https://www.waterpik.com/oral-health/buying-guide/countertop-water-flosser/

It is what my doc has used on my ear. Fill it up with warm water and blast whatever is in there out. It's gentle and works beautifully.

Okay, then. Not wax -- allergic swelling / plugging with drainage or mucus (I guess.) Waterpik sounds interesting.

Thanx!

.38 special?

Mine does it when I get water in my ear

You guys have no clue. I know it is a pain in the a$$ but try having ears that block even with tubes in both ears and fluid draining 24/7. Wake up in the morning and be stuck to your pillow because the fluid and blood soaked all the way through the cotton you put in the night before. Have it leak out your hearing aid and drip down onto your shirt. Hearing loss, fluctuating hearing for what hearing you have left and staggering vertigo. That is almost every day of my life.

ScottF

Truly sorry, sir. Protect while shooting for sure!

Barry

Thanks, and I am sorry for your plugged ear. It is a royal pain.

Afrin nasal spray

decongestant and/or antihistamine.

Geeze, sounds bad.

I would sure think that a pharmaceutical would be your best bet.

This, if the self-diagnosis is correct.

Otherwise my default is 50/50 hydrogen peroxide to H2O.

Might find an EENT doc too!

Guafed opened it up some last night -- Walgreens version of Mucinex DM. Gonna look for some without the sleep aid / cough suppressant today. There's yellow stuff all over my truck!!

I had a severe reaction to the extremely high ragweed pollen count this year that caused sneezing with bad chest congestion and a bad 24 hour cough. I guess by plugged ears you mean the tubes in your ears swelling shut and it sounds you're talking inside your head. What works for me is Nasacort and nasal rinses with a squeeze bottle before bedtime. Inhaling steam also seems to help clean out the pollen. I finally went to my doctor yesterday and he prescribed 20mg of Prednisone for 5 days and some HYCODAN cough syrup. I'm already feeling better.

I have never heard of such a thing here, is it common over there?

Monsato and drones bro!

Scott,
Do you have vertigo all the time? I started having vertigo 20 years ago during allergy season but I only got dizzy when my head was in a certain position. The doctor always said it was an inner ear problem caused by fluid imbalance in my ears and prescribed antihistamines which didn't help at all. Two years ago I went to a different doctor who finally figured out that I had positional vertigo that was caused by irregular sized calcium grains in my middle ear. Some of the calcium grains had gotten bigger and didn't roll around around the same as the smaller grains. This confuses your brain and it doesn't know which way is up. The first time it happened I would get instantly dizzy if I looked up and if I didn't grab ahold of something I would fall down. If I was laying on my back and rolled my head to the left the room would start spinning followed by instant nausea. Anyway to make a long story a little shorter he gave me a sheet of paper that showed some procedures that he said should retrain your brain for the changes in the your inner ear grains. Doing these procedures has always cleared up my vertigo in three days. I hope it works for you.

Victor

http://www.dizziness-and-balance.com/disorders/bppv/home/home-pc.html

Yes, it is. Not just Ragweed, but all sorts of other pollens give a lot of people Hell.

I don't suffer those allergies anymore. My neighbor, then my Dr., suggested I find some local raw honey, that produced within 50 miles of where I lived, and have a tablespoon of it each day. Within a month I no longer suffered from any pollen allergies.

To the OP, I hope you get relief soon. I know how miserable it is.

Ed

Hay-fever is common here with ryegrass and other allergens, but blocked ears is a new one on me.

There is a sinus bug going around, and combine that with the late pollen and my ear plugged as well.

Most people I know that killed is sooner than others did the whiskey thing. A couple of others did the netty pot to clean out thier sinuses.

Nasty little bug

Not what I have. If it was it would be easy. My problem is the inner ear makes to much fluid. The only cure is to remove the inner ears and that does not always do the job. I am to old to learn ASL.

That would probably be a vastly better place to go for medical advice than here on the 'net.

You only have two ears. Act accordingly.

"My problem is the inner ear makes to much fluid."

That's what I was always told until 2 years ago and the reason the doctors always prescribed antihistamines to remove the excess fluid but it never made the vertigo go away. I never heard of completely removing the inner ear? Your joking right? What is ASL?

Not joking, the saw through the bone behind your ear and remove the inner ear. http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/menieres-disease/basics/treatment/con-20028251

ASL is American Sign Language.

Yeah...uh, NO!

I am considering it as it would be less of a problem that what I face every day.

Best wishes to you, Scott F. My dear wife's had Meniere's for many years, bilateral for the last 8. Hers is mostly vertigo/balance/nausea/migraine etc. Fighting a sinus infection right now, too. Her hearing loss is minimal, but it has cost her the ability to do many things at will, and forced us to pick our spots, carefully. Hang in there.

I will pray for her. I am living with it and have decided to try me best to have fun every day. Life is still good.

Mucinex (guaifenesin) is neither decongestant nor antihistamine, FWIW.

The 'DM' is dextromethorphan is a cough suppressant, again, FWIW.

Doc can help you treat it appropriately and not guess meds. Good luck.

Hydrocodone (alias "silly syrup") stops the digestive track choo-choo train for me and, like Prednisone, gives me a personality. Asthma meds include Allegra (antihistamine) and Singulair (anti-leukotriene). Along with daily Nasacort nasal inhaler, I "do" 2 puffs twice daily of Symbicort. Albuterol nebulizer home breathing treatment as needed (inhaled alcohol there) keeps me out of the ER. Have been on local honey for a couple weeks already at friends' advice. STILL the ragweed got me and the mountain cedars in winter soon will. Guafenisin to loosen phlegm "plugging" one eustachian tube helped last night. Tried to find some without either dextramethorphan or Sudafed along with it and failed. Will just do coffee to overcome the woozy from the dex and call it good with my Walgreens version of Mucinex DM. Bless us all!

Barry

Several things have plugged my ear. I to have a very small canal in my left ear. Slightest infection will close it.
I have had my ear plugged by canal infection, wax impaction from using q tips, fungus and tube plugged in my inner ear. The only one I coukd take care of myself was the wax inpaction. The rest of them I had to go to the doc. One thing can lead to another so I go to the doc unless I as sure its wax.

I think that this may be a carniverous insect that someone maliciously
placed in your ear canal while you slept. If you develop vicious headaches that is the insect feeding and will last approximately 2 hours and occur about every 24 hours. Do not despair it will eventually eat its way through your brain and exit.

Unfortunately if it is a female she will have laid eggs.

....or maybe just allergies.


mike r