Ear Pressure, “Ear Barotrauma”

[Yann04]

You know that feeling in planes where your ear feels pressure and sometimes if pops. I’ve started getting this during PEM. Very weird and annoying to be honest. Am I the only one?

 

[poetinsf]

I get that all the time. I have Eustachian tube dysfunction and the ear pressure, along with pops and crackles, gets substantially more noticeable when coming down with PEM. That's why I started talking Sudafed. I talked about this several times before.

 

[jnmaciuch]

I got pops/crackles in my ears with PEM only on a stimulant, where the main PEM symptom was muscle pain and stiffness. The ear issues tended to be part and parcel with neck stiffness for me

 

[MrMagoo]

You know that feeling in planes where your ear feels pressure and sometimes if pops. I’ve started getting this during PEM. Very weird and annoying to be honest. Am I the only one?

Nope, if I do a “lunch out with friends” thing we will reach a point where I have to leave “because I’m tired and deaf in one ear” it gets blocked like you say, my hearing is fine afterwards.
I get it as immediate fatigue and it can happen in PEM too.

 

[Alinda]

My ears do pop occasionally, but no idea if it is a "normal" amount. I did have a bunch of ear infections as a child and im pretty sure they have always done some popping..

 

[MeSci]

I get this, but I think it's only during the pollen season. I have to try to resist picking at my ears as they end up deaf!