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Pressure in ear?

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Hello,

I have been experiencing a weird pressure feeling in my ear since december and I have no idea what it is/what to tell an .

Some background, I wear a hearing aid in my left ear with an custom mold. I have a very short canal and don’t care for the occlusion effect so the mold sits pretty lightly in my canal. In december I had a bit of a head cold, which caused my ears to feel plugged and pop all the time. I would consistantly pop my ears, as otherwise it was hard to hear. I beleive this caused some TMJ in my jaw from the constant jaw movement.

Flash forward a few months and most of the time it is okay, but every few days I feel pressure build-up in my ear and my ear pops quite consistantly for about a day and then it goes away.

As someone who is still in the process of trying a new aid, this makes it difficult as I don’t want my ear issue to hamper my perception of the aid/mold.

Any ideas?

You have described it quite well. I am sure the will be able to test further and come up with an answer. He may want to run several hearing test over time. Seeing that you have aids, there shouldn’t be a rush to new ones until your problem is resolved.

Thanks for the thoughts. As far as the new aids, I’ve tried Widex, ReSound, Siemens and Oticon after my old Oticons died on me to the point of inability to use, so the new aids are more a necessity unfortunately. I don’t feel like the ear pressure is causing issues with my hearing, as I had a recent hearing test that was the same as all my others (deaf in my right ear, moderate-severe high frequency loss in my left) but it’s more if a comfort thing. Hard to tell if my mold is fitting correctly/irritating me or if it’s my ear being wonky.

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