Quote: (Originally Posted by
Icejon)
Well now that you mention it, my rig ear had some issues. I could equalize but it wouldnt offgas right and still felt some pressuring when I surfaced. My last dive I had some ringing in my right ear and muffled hearing for at least a week. I've heard a good method to equalize uses your tongue to compress air up into your head? What is that called? I dont take any meds.
Sound like you was/are blowing way to hard and got a little hole in your ear drum, happend to me once when I was diving and couldnt really equalize and just blowed a little to hard.
Blood coming out of your nose is NOT normal, do oyu have the ability to go and see a doctor who is specialized in diving? Then do so. You can also try and google for "Eric Fatah" and "frenzel", he is the guy who invented/spread the Frenzel technique commonly used by freedivers as it enables equalizing at larger depths than the valsalva. I personaly use it on both freediving and scuba diving when I remember to do it.
You could also be one of the persons who got very narrow Eustachian tubes whch is the tubes who leads between your mouth and your ears, if they are very narrow it is possibly the widen them and thus make it alot easier to equalize.
An unfunny point here, humans are almost the only animal which have their eustachian tubes closed al the time, cats and dogs and other animal dont have to equalize at all. Remebmer the scuba catsand dog videos, no problem there...