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A year ago I had an eardrum suddenly and randomly rupture (probably due to an infection I never felt before it happened) and after it healed a bit, my ENT told
by mattmaroon 3y ago
A year ago I had an eardrum suddenly and randomly rupture (probably due to an infection I never felt before it happened) and after it healed a bit, my ENT told me that I should take it before a flight just to be sure to open the eustachian tubes.
Oddly a few days later I overheard pilots in the airport lounge talking about times their eardrum ruptured due to a cold or something. It’s an injury that’s not uncommon for them.
Now I pop one before a fight every time just to be safe. If you’ve never had an eardrum rupture let’s just say it isn’t fun.
- Nursie 3y agoMy eardrum rupture was amazing. Would recommend :) Not so much “fun” as “blessed relief”. I picked up some sort of nasty flu in Mexico in about 2005, and my eustachian tubes got blocked for a few weeks, resulting in an ear infection with pressure building up behind the eardrum in one of my ears. When that drum finally burst I felt so much better. It was a sharp pain, and it was a bit gross, but so much better… Pseudoephedrine did nothing for me (it usually works great) and it took a a course of co-amoxiclav to finally clear up the infection.
- mattmaroon 3y agoAh, my pressure buildup happened in a few hours and it did suck. The rupture was more scary (literally hearing my ear explode) than painful, but the process after was really awful. I could barely stand at one point and even a year later I have bad tinnitus and some (thankfully minor) hearing loss.