Earmuffs - one up, one down

[AHPP]

I often have my left down and my right up to get a mix of comms and ambience. I've had recurring bastard earaches in almost always my right ear for years now. Well that doesn't sound like much of a surprise, does it? Yes and no. It manifested for a while with a tight jaw. I couldn't tell whether it was the ear, the jaw or a tooth. The dentist tried telling me it was a tooth but they turned out to be shady bastards who urged me to have teeth unnecessarily pulled for the surgery commission. I had my ears cleaned. That staved it off for a few months but that was also a few months that I wasn't doing much tree work, up a tree, ear(s) exposed to cold draughts. 

 

Anyway. This is now  a somewhat rambling post about my ear hurting, with no real questions. Anyone experienced similar? Any revelations?

 

Edited December 6 by AHPP

[Mick Dempsey]

Have you been to an ENT consultant?

[Logjam]

Can't help with your specific ear symptoms but recommend getting a pair of active ear muffs. Hear all the ambient sounds without risking hearing damage. I've been using them for years & can't understand why they are not the norm in our industry.

3M Peltor ProTac III: noise-cancelling helmet earmuffs

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Earmuff hearing protection Level dependent function Stereo sound quality 5 levels of adjustment Robust...

 

 

[sime42]

Are you a grinder? Teeth grinding in your sleep I mean? I suffered from pain in my jaw/ear for a while, couldn't work out which it was. That turned out to be teeth grinding.

[GarethM]

Grinding or snoring definitely doesn't help, wear a cheap mouth guard for a few nights.

 

I wear one, cuts down on the headaches, migraines.

[AHPP]

3 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Have you been to an ENT consultant?

I haven’t been to a doctor for twenty years. Am aware from musicians of ENT specialists’ existence. The hearing test in the first post was from when I had them cleaned and tested before having custom moulded in ear monitors made.

[AHPP]

2 hours ago, Logjam said:

Can't help with your specific ear symptoms but recommend getting a pair of active ear muffs. Hear all the ambient sounds without risking hearing damage. I've been using them for years & can't understand why they are not the norm in our industry.

3M Peltor ProTac III: noise-cancelling helmet earmuffs

WWW.ONEDIRECT.CO.UK

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Earmuff hearing protection Level dependent function Stereo sound quality 5 levels of adjustment Robust...

 

 

Because they’re expensive, people wouldn’t charge them, then people would break them, if they didn’t steal them. 

[AHPP]

2 hours ago, sime42 said:

Are you a grinder? Teeth grinding in your sleep I mean? I suffered from pain in my jaw/ear for a while, couldn't work out which it was. That turned out to be teeth grinding.

That question occupied my mind for about three years. I can’t remember the answer. I think I moderately clamped down on one side but wasn’t grinding back and forth. The more trustworthy dentist I had said he didn’t see evidence of grinding.
 

I thought I’d tracked it down to TMJ for a while. No clicking or grinding though. 

 

 

The audiologist who looked at me for the IEMs was the biggest help in years. Straight away said, “Yeah. Obvious. Loads of wax and crap in your ear. Gets wet, swells up, pushes onto the eardrum, hurts.”

But then I had a bout of it not long after my ears were hoovered out so can’t be sure about that either. 

[GarethM]

Granted do you also clean them after a shower ?. Not full on exploration but enough to remove the wax and sawdust.

[AHPP]

Gareth. Respectfully, I don’t want your opinion. Please don’t post.