Hearing loss, please help, feel like I'm falling apart :(

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I woke up this morning with virtually complete hearing loss in my right ear. It's improved as the day has gone on but I still have a slight hearing loss and a feeling of fullness like warm water in my ear. It's not hurting and I don't feel dizzy so not sure if its an ear infection. I also had a really severe migraine about three weeks ago with lots of pain in the right hand side of my head.

Please tell me to snap out of it and stop worrying about brain tumours or spiders trapped in my ear. We're also really stressed at the moment and don't know if this symptom could be related to that. :(

It's way more likely to be earwax or an inner/middle ear infection than anything serious, esepcially coming on that suddenly!
See the GP.

Though stress can lead to funny symptoms with tension - try massaging your jaw joints and all round behind your ears and see if that helps. Lying on a hot water bottle might be nice too.
Good luck!

Yes do go to gp asap. Also try putting drops of olive oil into the ear and massaging. If it is earwax (likely) then this will help soften it before they are syringed.

Thank you for the perspective ladies, dh is currently hunting out the hot water bottle.

Stupid question - but is syringing just squirting water in your ear and couldn't I do a diy job on that or is it a bit more complicated???

Sounds like earwax. I had this after a loud concert and was convinced I had permanently damaged my ear, but the music had obviously just jiggled the wax about! I wouldn't go for home syringing, put olive oil in for a week and let the nurse do it..