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Careful with this, you might be doing more than just flexing your tensor tympani muscle, you might also control the pressure inside your ear. I can do both of
by 4ad 9y ago
Careful with this, you might be doing more than just flexing your tensor tympani muscle, you might also control the pressure inside your ear.
I can do both of these. The latter is rather dangerous in the long term, although in the short term it does reduce the perceived volume quite a bit. For some reason when I was a kid I preferred a negative pressure in my ears which deformed my eardrum. I still do and I concisely need to remind myself to reset the pressure back to normal.
- andscoop 9y agoDo you have any more info on this? I have unilateral deafness and am constantly increasing the pressure of my good ear throughout the day by popping it. (The way I do this is sort by blowing a quick burst of air out my nose and clicking my ear at the same time.) I have long worried it may not be healthy but I have been doing it for years and have no recorded hearing loss from it, I continue to do it because the added volume it gives me is sometimes the difference between having to ask "what?" a third time in a row.