Water in the ear?
 

I'm sure many people here have experienced it. You're slightly deafened and you hear this annoying sloshing sound in your ear.

Lately it's been really bad for me, more and more water seems to be getting in. I must be showering in some awkward position or something.

Anywho, what do you do to get rid of the water in your ear? Just let it evapourate?

If you don't have any previous ear problems, just try tilting your head so the ear is facing down. This isn't really a problem for most people since the eardrum prevents water from entering into the inner-ear (unless your eardrum is perforated). I usually just let it sit, but that hasn't happened to me for a while since I wear earplugs when I shower due to an operation I had done to my eardrums.

I've tried that, even opening the side of my ear a bit with my fingers. I also tried some sorta plunger effect on my ear with my palm to get the water out, doesn't work. IT'S DRIVING ME CRAZY!

What you do is take a small eyedropper and put in 4-5 drops of rubbing alcohol into your ear. The evaporation of the alcohol will take the water with it (or so I'm told).

Now if you want to spend $3 more for the same thing, you can head to Walmart or any drugstore and look up something to cure "Swimmers Ear".

Other than that, you could try the ridiculous "I-Have-Water-In-My-Ear" dance, where you hop around with your head tilted.

Sideways headbanging works sometimes. As does hitting the opposite side of your head. Kinda hurts though. Also, you can do that thing where you pinch your nose and pop your ears. That's probably not healthy though.

The best advice I can give is to sleep on that ear. You'll roll around in your sleep, sure, but if you stay on that side long enough the water should run down. Also, try yawning a lot.

Ever see the last episode of Seinfeld? Tilt your head sideways, the ear with the water facing down. Jump up and down while hitting the upper side of your head. That's how I've done it.

Then video record it and put it on youtube, send us a link :).

You mean like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRZ-f...ter%20In%20Ear

I usually just tilt my head, with the water-filled ear down, and kind of nod a few times, sometimes even tilt my head a bit.
One thing is for sure though, trying to violently shake it out will do you no good, and will, if anything, have negative effects. Just tilt it around a bit, until the water flows out the passageways naturally.

Man, I hate when this happens.

When it does, I usually resort to a variety of techniques. First there's the air drying dance plus headbanging. I like to do this to Blue Man Group's "Time to Start." Then, once I'm more settled, I apply some plunger action with the palm of one of my hands. While doing this, I'll also utilize the pinch-your-nose-and-blow-air-out-of-ear move. I'll stick a Q-tip in there too to try to absorb some of the moisture just because I like to live dangerously.

It's all about the I-have-water-in-my-ear dance that riceonfriday mentioned.

have you... tried all of those? rofl!! that was great.

I must be thinking of something different because I just go a bit deeper with the Q-tip if that were to happen, and that usually absorbs even just a bit of water (assuming you have your head tilted down of course, to increases the chance of contact and absorbption. Wait a couple more Q-tips and it's gone!

It might not be water in your ear. I for one know I have a consistent clicking/popping noise in my ear that has gone unsolved for more than a decade now. Originally it sounded like water, but after trying to remove it by creating a suction cup with the palm of my hand for several days, I realized it was something different all together.

Although I must say, I have yet to suffer from water in my ears since this problem arrived.

Does this sound occur when you are yawning a bit, or opening wide the back of your throat? (sexual innuendos aside)

Most of the time, but it manifests itself in other ways. When I am drinking or eating, sometimes. Sometimes when chewing my jaw "pops" very audibly and is sometimes painful. I can tell by the sensation that it's related. When I get a cold these things become very worse.

I am upset by it, but my doctor would never tell me what the problem was. Based on my limited research it is something to do with the relationship between my jaw bone and my eustachian tubes and my general sinus problems. I imagine it will take surgery or something similar to fix the problem. Presently, I am used to it enough to not want to spend money on it.

I just take a q-tip and pull out enough of the cotton that it stays on the q-tip. Then I attempt to dig and and see if I can absorb the water that would be in my ear. Works about 50% of the time.

It's like naz's method up there, but not as painful. I don't like sticking the whole thing in there damaging my ear drum. <_<

Uh yeah, It's kind annoying usually jumping for a while is helping, but most of time I will just let it evaporate by time. Btw, have you tried... blow your ear with some hairdryer? Perhaps... it might speed up the evaporation :D

Yeah, I believe what is going on there is that you have an excess of adenoidal tissue. Adenoidal tissue is something that resides around the connection between the back of the nose and the eustachain tubes, and if too large, can cause sinus/breathing problems, as well as weird noises through the tubes.
I further believe that when you flex the muscles back ther a bit, it causes either the end of the eustacians to lower beyond the reach of the adenoids, or it draws the adenoids up.
To get this sort of thing fixed up though could be a problem, since that stuff it way in the back of your throat, in a very precarious place. However, I believe some progress has been made these days in "laser reduction of peri-tubal adenoids."
I do not think, however, that the pain in your jaw, or the popping it exhibits, is really directly related.

Umm I suggest you get some Swimmers Ear and use it when you get out of the shower. It will dry out all the water in your ear. We used to use it for swim team.

I've done that and I think it makes it worse at times. Sometimes I do that and it feels like I just changed my ear drum from concave to convex or something, so I have to apply pressure to change it back.

Also, be very careful with qtips. A friend did it,went to the doctor, and it took a while to heal.

The banging your head on the sofa has worked for me before though.

There was an article in Discover Magazine a few months ago in which the author related how he occassionally felt that he had water in his ear. Upon further investigation, it was determined that he was really going deaf in that ear. I'm not saying that's the case here. I hope it's not the case here. But if the feeling doesn't go away, I would considering seeing an ear-doctor.

Swimmers ear stuff like Debrox works really well.

This is the most aweful thing ever, i got swimmers ear like this. Lay down on the ear that has the water in it, you can dump rubbing alcohol in your ear which dries it out, whatever you do, do not get swimmers ear, it is so incredibly painful. Make sure all the water is out of your ears when you shower/swim/ect.

Stand on one foot, the foot on the side of the ear with the water. Then tilt your head and hop around for a while.