Water in the ear?

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.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Eleo

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)

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by a_gerontophile

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.

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.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.