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[Ecrofirt]

OK, so my right ear has been giving me problems for over a month, and I thought tonight that maybe if I tried to unpop it by holding my nose and blowing out it might fix the problem.

So, I do that, and my left ear made this weird squeaky noise.

I thought it might do it again, so I got my microphone near my ear ant tried it. Listen to the sound that came out! Jebus!
http://www.nformant.net/ear_wtf.wav
it's 123KB

 

[Invader Zim]

That's the sound of drying semen.

You're one sick puppy.

 

[firex]

and the worms ate into his brain.

 

[belgurdo]

Your inner ear bones have punctured your eardrums

That sound is the air coming out of them

 

[Cauliflower of Love]

Fuck that, that can't be your ear.

Any pain?

 

[Error Macro]

Man, you have got an ear infection or something and the mucus is clogging your eustachian tube.

 

[Ecrofirt]

no pain, but it appears to have stopped now.

No idea why it did that, but it did it a few more times.

 

[Grizzlyjin]

I don't think holding your nose and blowing is the best way to handle these type of things. How do you feel?

 

[Ecrofirt]

I feel fine.

My right ear has been giving me a lot of problems lately. I don't know if it's a wax buildup or what.

sometimes it feels 'squishy', and then sometimes it feels like it's releasing fluid. When I clean it with a q-tip, it feels like i'm hitting my eardrum or something when I don't even go very far in at all.

I just thought there might be a chance it wasblocked due to pressure or something, so I tried that, and then the left ear started making funny noises.

I'm scheduling an appointment with the doctor to get this thing checked out.

 

[Star Power]

Can I use that sample for a song I'm working on in FruityLoops?

 

[Dan]

Your ear has been giving you problems for over a month and you're just scheduling a doctor's appointment now? That's the kind of thing I'd get checked out quick. Hearing and sight are two things I will protect at great lengths.

 

[DarienA]

I've heard that sound from someone before... you're going to die.... have a nice day.

 

[Warm Machine]

Get a doctor to take a look at it. Getting your ears washed out is actually a really good experience. You won't believe just how much crap can exist in your ears! Also, the water method is less painful than the tiny doctors vacuum method, though the vacuum method works better for the deeper stuff. Thing with the vacuum is that it is loud (especially considering where he is putting it) and if the doctor isn't still it can touch your inner ear and it hurts.

 

[Fusebox]

You just have too much wax bro, I went through the same thing a few weeks back - they'll flush your ears and your hearing will be hyper-sensitive for a while and the noise should go away.

 

[Lambtron]

For some of us, i.e. me, the water method isn't available. My eardrums have ruptured in the past, so they won't spray water in your ear.

I tell you what, though. Having wax ripped off of infected tissue on your eardrum (my eardrum was trying to eat a hole in itself!) is quite possibly the most painful experience of all time.

 

[Warm Machine]

You just have too much wax bro, I went through the same thing a few weeks back - they'll flush your ears and your hearing will be hyper-sensitive for a while and the noise should go away.

It is actually amazing how good your hearing can get after you get it done. You can hear the air blowing by your ears for the first few days!

 

[Fusebox]

You can hear yourself drumming your fingers on your toes through your bones its faareaky!

 

[fart]

don't put q-tips in your ear

 

[Stuggernaut]

I swear people don't use doctors anymore

Sounds like you just have an ear infection and had some air trapped in there behind the swollen tissue.

Get some ear drops or GO see a doctor man!

 

[Vormund]

Hmm I think I should get my ears cleaned out...I have trouble hearing what people say to me sometimes.

 

[Ecrofirt]

why are qtips sold if they aren't supposed to be used?

 

[miyuru]

Well you can still use them on the outside of your ear, and to clean your MD player...

:-\

 

[ManDudeChild]

OK, so my right ear has been giving me problems for over a month, and I thought tonight that maybe if I tried to unpop it by holding my nose and blowing out it might fix the problem.

So, I do that, and my left ear made this weird squeaky noise.

I thought it might do it again, so I got my microphone near my ear ant tried it. Listen to the sound that came out! Jebus!
http://www.nformant.net/ear_wtf.wav
it's 123KB

Hm. Well that about wraps it up for you, sounds like what you've got is Gremilins using your inner ear to spawn their race.

 

[8bit]

 

[Crispy]

I'm scheduling an appointment with the doctor to get this thing checked out.

Then you can make use of that oppertunity to get your zombie-like foot checked out too!

 

[MrPing1000]

Ear noises, ga is reaching new intellectual heights

 

[Drexon]

The sound you heard was air. Every human has sort of a pipe (dunno what it's for) between their ear and their nose, you can squeeze air through that pipe (also seen ppl blow smoke out of their ears).

 

[EdLuva]

That is the sound of inevitability.

 

[DrForester]

Remember what happened in Wrath of Khan?

 

[DaCocoBrova]

Maybe you just have a narrow ear canal. I know I do. I have to flush my ears ever few months, or I can't hear well.

Have you tried using Murine?

 

[Diablos]

hahaha, you're a funny guy. That doesn't sound natural...

 

[Dilbert]

Holding your nose and mouth closed while blowing hard through your nose (as if you were trying to push your nostrils open with the air) is called the Valsalva technique. If you are hearing strange noises -- kind of a gurgling or squeaking -- then you probably have fluid or mucus in your outer ear. (If the outer ear is filled only with air and the technique is successful, then you hear a single "pop" and the pressure equalizes.)

I would see a doctor as soon as you can, and DON'T use the technique again until you do. It is possible to rupture your eardrum by doing it if the space is filled with fluid and you blow forcefully enough.

For what it's worth -- don't screw around with your ears. I found out the hard way about all this stuff when I flew for business with a bad head cold. I couldn't get the pressure equalized on descent, suffered some AWFUL pain (dizzyingly bad -- I was staggering around the terminal), and I'm not sure that my ear has EVER quite recovered 100% from the experience. Thankfully, I haven't flown much lately.

 

[Ecrofirt]

I ended up gonig to the doctor about my ear.

He said there's no wax in my ears, and he thinks the weird feeling my right ear is giving me is due to fluid behind the eardrum. He gave me nasonex and zyrtec to see if that would help.