Plugged ear feeling

[mandoo]

Does anyone get a plugged ear feeling after having a choke submission applied?

Open mat - I was rolling with a teammate (awesome guy who has taught me a lot of stuff) and he applied a few submissions: bread slicer, bow and arrow, to name a few. Some I fought off, others I tapped.

After we were done, about ten minutes later, I got a plugged ear feeling. Is this normal?

 

[ValveBJJ]

Does anyone get a plugged ear feeling after having a choke submission applied?

Open mat - I was rolling with a teammate (awesome guy who has taught me a lot of stuff) and he applied a few submissions: bread slicer, bow and arrow, to name a few. Some I fought off, others I tapped.

After we were done, about ten minutes later, I got a plugged ear feeling. Is this normal?

You probably have a build up of wax which gets pressed into the ear canal when someone puts pressure on the ear. If it keeps happening or gets worse you will need to get what's called microsuction where they remove the wax with a vacuum like device. This is pretty common. Just book into an ear clinic. It's not expensive.

 

[Jiu Jitsuka]

If it is a wax build up alternatively you could just put a few drops of oil in your ear before bed. It will shrink the wax and it will eventually fallout by itself.

(P.S. Don't use Q-tips to clean your ears (if this is your current habit) because this simply compacts the wax further back in your ear canal compounding the issue.)

 

[hackenbush]

Ive experienced an ear pressure at the end of rolling. Not very often, but it has happened. I chalked it up to a sinus related issue.

 

[kupop18]

I've had ear wax problems before. The way I test it is I snap my fingers next to my bad ear, then I take my fingertips and tap them on the bone behind my ear. If it's just plugged up, the tapping should sound fine, but the snapping should sound really muffled.

 

[PCypert]

I've been getting this after some rolls. Interesting that others are too. I thought maybe too much sweat going in because I felt like water in the ear when swimming. Will go check the wax out LOL.

 

[wiseguy$$]

The ear vacuum is the way to go ! I have done the drops and "with a issue like yours " it will not do much! I know from experiance , I had the DR flush them once and the thing that came out of my ear " looked like a " MC Nugget sooooooooo gross !

I need to do this again its been like 5 years now .

 

[Taptap]

You can also take a syringe with water and flush your ear out, but be careful not to overdo with the water pressure.

 

[Carbonium]

Does anyone get a plugged ear feeling after having a choke submission applied?

Open mat - I was rolling with a teammate (awesome guy who has taught me a lot of stuff) and he applied a few submissions: bread slicer, bow and arrow, to name a few. Some I fought off, others I tapped.

After we were done, about ten minutes later, I got a plugged ear feeling. Is this normal?

Buy yourself a $3 shipped Otoscope on Ebay. Its good for your entire family and also works as a low powered LED powered microscope or 10x loop for checking out diamonds. Someone else needs to check your ear as you can't see it yourself

Something like this:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Portable-Ot...659?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item43b3739293

Learn how to use it and you'll see giant chunks of wax in about 50% of the general population. If you don't have a ball of wax, that's great but the "darker" the wax the longer it's been in there and the harder it is. Might look darker than a raisin and could be blocking some or all of you're hearing. It's a major cause of fixable hearing loss and a HUGE % of the population have 5-30 year old chunks of it in their ears.

Doctors hate spending the time removing them so 90% of doctors will pass them up on inspection. They will visually see the dark wax ball in your ear and unless you complain of hearing loss they act like its normal. Docs don't want to spend 30-60 minutes removing your ball of wax in each ear unless pressured to.

The free way is to use over the counter 3% hydrogen peroxide like this:
http://www.ehow.com/how_4778450_use-peroxide-remove-ear-wax.html

You can also buy a $5-8 ear wax kit that has a syringe and dissolving solution at CVS or Walmart but you really need an otoscope to see it.

Like this:

http://www.amazon.com/Health-Enterp...id=1352793878&sr=8-1&keywords=ear+wax+syringe

DON'T use a Q-TIP <--- That's usually what compacts the wax in the first place and will just push it deeper into your ear.
DON'T perforate your EARDRUM with improper pressure or instruments like a bobby pin!!!

If you can't get it out in 30 minutes with hydrogen peroxide and warm water flushing you can try it several times. Each time the wax ball will shrink until it drops out with the syringe water flush. Worst case is a doctor visit but watching that black raisin falling out is worth it.

I have a Deluxe $400 Corpsman Kit like below but that $3 ebay item will do fine to inspect and visually help in the ear wax "BALL" removal.

http://www.narescue.com/media/NAR/product-info-sheets/PIS-Corpsman-Kit.pdf

 

[Carbonium]

The next thing that I bet MANY people in this forum have and don't even know it is:

Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV)

If you get dizzy (also spinning or balance problems) when rolling on the mat, flipping doing cart wheels, quick or even slow head movements. But are ok when still it's most likely the easily FIXABLE (BPPV) 80% Success Rate even doing this at home!

Symptoms:

dizziness
lightheadedness
unsteadiness
loss of balance
vertigo (sense of world spinning or moving)
blurred vision can accompany vertigo
nystagmus (eyes rotate toward affected ear)
light sensitivity
nausea (can be constant)
vomiting

You can develop this simply by a slap to the head, getting hit in the head, concussions and even aging can cause it. It's usually fixable and is know as Ear Rocks!

Quote: "Tiny 'Ear Rocks' Keep Us Balanced

Within the inner ear, there's a little pouch called the utricle that contains about 1,000 little pebbles made of calcium carbonate.

The tiny rocks serve an important purpose: They stimulate nerve cells when we move our heads &#8212; and send signals to our brain that guide our sense of up and down.

"The trouble is that sometimes the little rocks fall off," explains Dr. Timothy Hain, a dizziness expert at Northwestern University. When the rocks fall into one of the inner ear canals, the brain gets confused. As the rocks roll around in the canal, the brain senses that the head is moving a lot more than it actually is. The result: vertigo."

The Problem and the Fix:

http://www.med.unc.edu/ent/adunka/symptoms-disorders/benign-paroxysmal-positional-vertigo-bppv

And Here:

http://www.ut-ent.net/2459/home-epley-maneuver/

And Here:

http://news.health.com/2012/07/23/youtube-vertigo-treatments/

 

[EGarrett]

Does anyone get a plugged ear feeling after having a choke submission applied?

Open mat - I was rolling with a teammate (awesome guy who has taught me a lot of stuff) and he applied a few submissions: bread slicer, bow and arrow, to name a few. Some I fought off, others I tapped.

After we were done, about ten minutes later, I got a plugged ear feeling. Is this normal?

I've had this before. Just get some ear drops (last ones I used were called Murine) for a few dollars at your local Wal-Mart/Rite-Aid/whatever.

You put 5 drops in your ear, lay on your side, hear it bubbling for 10 minutes, then use the bulb they give you to rinse it out (and watch black debris fall out of your ear). Within a few days your ear will be good as new.