Water stuck in my ear, please help!!

[ShivD]

I’ve had been after stuck in my ear after a jump at a water park this morning and it is driving me mad. I’ve tried loads of things but it’s well and truly stuck and SO, SO annoying!

I’ve tried, sharing it, creating a vacuum, lying down in that side for half an hour, some oil drops from the pharmacy.

please tell me there’s a secret technique to getting it out that will bring me relief for the rest of the evening.

This is going to sound mad but I stand with my head tilted to the side (with the ear full of water towards the ground) and jump up and down. Generally works 👍🏻

Have you tried holding your nose and popping the ears?

Star jumps? I’d be in there with a cotton bud but that’s terrible advice and very dangerous.
When it goes it will be amazing though. 🙂

I lie on my side on the bed, bad ear on the pillow, then whack your head as hard as you can against the pillow you will feel the water run out, works for me

Chewing gum is the best way to get your ear flexing - a friend used it to dislodge a bead her son had stuck in there. Worth a shot?

I have this after swimming. Head forward, head back, repeat, then quickly tip your head to the side where the water is. Right over. Should drain water out.

I quite enjoy the feeling of water trickling out

Lay down with watery ear on pillow. Rotate your face and nose towards the pillow so your eyebrow is on the pillow.
Stay for a few minutes and it should trickle out.

Lay down on a bed on your side with the troublesome ear on the pillow. Get someone (a smallish child usually works best!) to literally jump up and down on the bed.
Works every time!

Thanks ally working through these gradually. Tried holding nose and mouth and can’t get it to pop. Jumping hasn’t worked but gets stuff moving but my neck is cricked now

Going to try some head banging and lying down next....

A drop of surgical spirit /rubbing alcohol in the affected ear will break the surface tension of the water and let it run out.

Leave it. Lie with a pillow wedged under your neck on the side that the ear is blocked. Have a towel underneath on a very falt pillow. Leave it be and gravity such sort it. Otherwise hold your nose and try sneeze and see if it will.pop

Ok, I’m giving up and hoping it comes out at night as I’ve given myself motion sickness now too.

Bloody hell, never to taking the kids to a water park again,

Could you try a hair dryer?

Ah my DS had this on holiday last year, we blasted the ear with the hair dryer and it seemed to do the trick.

Hair dryer over your ear

Trying laying on a towel and asking a friend to gently poor in a little olive oil.

So I solved it late last night with oil, lying on the opposite side and then tiring over and letting it trickle out. It was relief at last.

Thanks for all the suggestions and help. My sanity is temporarily restored.