Sorry what? Speak up a bit? hehe, I've been really busy doing exams at college but i'll go tomorrow (maybe)
Go to the doctor ASAP. My father suffered hearing loss when he was young and now he has hearing aids in both ears. You really don't want that. NOTHING can ever replace your natural hearing. If it started to hurt a few weeks ago, then you should have gone to the doctor a few weeks ago minus one day ago.
Not if you have cochlear implants, they are supposed to be almost like natural hearing, and seriously some people I know that have them have hearing sharper than hearing people!
Hmm... I wasn't aware of that. But still, I am under the impression that nerve damage can never be healed or repaired.
Dude... I swear I have the same damn problem. When you push right below the ear lobe it sounds as if there's water in it too right? I really hate this, however mine got better. It still pops a bit and my hearing isn't as good as my right ear. I'll try some wax in it this weekend, hope it will help. If not I'll see a doctor, seems like the best thing to do anyway
If I started a "geek health check" i'd make a ****ing fortune. All i'd need on the advert are a few tits and processors/graphics cards and people would be falling over themselves to join.
Last May when I was kayaking in Wales (I forget which river), but on one of the sections I capsized, and just before I rolled back up, I full on smacked the side of my head on a rock. After I rolled up I could feel my ear "burst", absolutely painful, with plenty of swearing to go with it. Some water had got trapped in my ear somehow, and was really bloody painful for the rest of the day, I couldnt swallow properly without it hurting. When I put a metal tent peg (as there was nothing else around in the field we were camping in) in my ear, I got a runny wax substance come out, wasnt too pleasant. The pain and feeling subsided within a few days, the water came out by itself. My ears are fine, and I suffer from no "deafness", even with loud music and regular gigs. If its an infection, you would know about it! For starters it would most likely be more painful, longer lasting, and make you properly deaf in one ear. As for those ear candles someone mentioned before, theyre a thin stick that you put in your ear, light the other end, and its supposed to suck out the wax or anything trapped in your ear. When I had my screwed up ear as I mentioned above, I got a mate to try it out on me, except we had to use rolled up paper instead. I could definitely feel it moving a bit, but nothing significant as it wasnt the real thing. Have fun at the doc's...
You mentalist... I wouldn't try out any of the above... Real ear candles have a plug to stop any ash falling into your ears, rolled up paper isn't the same thing at all. I've had my ears syringed before and generally they won't do it if you have an infection, so you would be given antibiotics to clear that up first. Also, it wasn't a pleasant experience for me. It was painful. The nurse kept letting the water run ice cold which made me jump & therefore get soaked. I wasn't impressed Ear candles are not a substitute for syringing. It's just something to use in between syringing really. The stuff that comes out of the ear candles is almost like pollen. It's really odd. I recommend AudiClean though, it's pretty cool and safe.
In cases they can be. I know some people who used to be hearing but became deaf later in life and a few of them have cochlear implants. They do say that it is very similar to natural hearing. Afaik they can only work if the nerves are not damaged and with modern digital hearing aids, you eventually adapt to the sounds and pick up even the quietest of sounds. I'm assuming that you do not have a cochlear implant, so I understand why it must be hard for you to realise that cochlear implants can be almost like natural hearing. Don't flame me, but I am taking this from the people I know, that have cochlear implants.
Help! I've gone suddenly blind, and deaf, and lost all feeling in my hands, so that I can't type anymore........................ Really, you should just go to the doctor instead of posting on Bit-Tech. If it is an infection, the sooner you get it checked out, the better. Also, Don't use those ear candles. They're a scam, and you can seriously burn the inside of your ear if the hot wax falls into them. What comes out of your ear comes almost completely from the candle itself. Here's an article with more info: http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/candling.html
The main problem with hearing aids is that they render the user unable to differentiate directional sounds. Supposedly, in a crowded room, all sounds are heard and make it seem like everyone is talking at once, from everywhere at once. I went to a lecture earlier this year by a researcher working on applying the hearing properties of a certain fly to hearing aids. It was actually quite interesting, with a fly being able to track certain sounds accurately. Certain televisions and certain lights emit very high frequency sounds that bug the heck out of me. Especially on the fourth floor of the science building; we could never find the source of the sounds when we had labs up there. This kind of research would allow people to accurately pick up those sounds and pinpoint there exact location. When I teach recitations, there will usually be someone that asks a question w/o raising their hand and I always have trouble figuring out who it is. It's usually someone from my periphery as I can see who's speaking if they're right in front of me, but when I'm searching around w/ my eyes, the speaker has already stopped talking and I don't know who to address. But yea, this is slightly irrelevant, but an example of technology that could boost human hearing into supernatural realms.
That's total b*******. There isn't any wax to drip in your ears. I've used them loads of times and can guarantee they never drip, let alone burn your ears and also the stuff clearly isn't from the candle itself cos you get a different amount of it on different ears at different times. I'm not saying it's better than syringing, far from it. But that site is just talking rubbish.
WRONG - cochlear implants transmit data about the sound by using around 10 electrical nodes, compared to the hundreds that your ear naturaly has, do you think its going to be the same? They are tuned to transmit best at frequencies around that of the human voice so this is why they are useful replacements and can sometimes be an improvement when listening to speach but frequencies outside this range are very limited we are well on our way to developing natural sounding implants and cochlear implants are a huge improvement but there are a few years left before they can be considered a complete replacement. as part of my course i study this stuff and trust me, they are very limited in frequency
Well if you do this don't go school put olive oil in and it will make a ball fo wax and the reson i said dont go school is becaus eit can fall out at any time
I trust you But I don't quite understand how some people I know seriously have better hearing that a lot of hearing people, unless it's the fact that hearing people naturally ignore small sounds that people with coclear implants pick up? But all I can say is that they are definatly better than hearing aids. Back on topic, you need to see a doctor or ENT therapist, surprised you still haven't.
Perhaps you might want to do a bit more reading on this subject before you comment any further.... First, an ear candle is usually made of linen or cotton that have been soaked in Parafin wax, or bees wax, so yes, there is wax that can drip into your ear. Second, Ear candles are supposed to suck out the ear wax by creating a vaccum in the ear. The ammount of suction required to do this would also suck out your ear drum. If you want some more info, you can check out these sites as well: http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_098.html http://www.valleyskeptic.com/Ear.htm http://www.rcsullivan.com/www/forum/harris/candle.htm http://edition.cnn.com/HEALTH/alternative/9907/16/ear.candles/ And these were just on the first two pages of the google search I did. Now ear candles might give some form of relief, perhaps by causing the wax in the ear to soften, but it definately does not, suck it out of the ear.
