People with chronic ETD sometimes need to have tubes (or grommets) inserted in their ears by their docs, to relieve pressure when flying, but I have not needed to go that route. On this thread, you will see a lot of other people have thoughts on this very common question, re. I use it when I fly and so far, no problems. But my flight protocol, put together by my primary ENT (a barotrauma specialist), is a bit more involved and includes vented plugs (Ear Planes) and Afrin. But my guess, is like said, you will be fine and more comfortable after your doc visit.įor the future: I also do the Sudafed thing before flying. You might ask about steroids, if there is hearing loss. I am assuming if you had a ruptured eardrum, you would know it by know. The doc should be able to determine if there is an infection that might require antibiotics and also may give you a tympanic test, to determine if you might have chronic ETD. If that's the case, your ENT may force open your tube by blowing air up your nose. Sounds like you might have eustachian tube dysfunction (ETD), as I did.
You might want to get another hearing test (if you have had a previous test), one past 8000 hz, to see if you have any additional frequency loss. Of course, you already have tinnitus, so I assume you are fearing this experience will make it worse? Anyway, good thing you are getting to an ENT pronto. I also had hearing loss - although whether that loss was due to barotrauma or already existed, no way to tell as I never had had a hearing test prior to having tinnitus. My ears were ringing when I got off the plane and haven't stopped more than two years later.
On the long flight back, had terrible pain on descent. My experience was very similar to yours: took a long flight over to Italy, where my ears felt weird the whole time as we drove through the mountains. Hi, Not to scare you, but I am one of those people here at TT whose tinnitus came from barotrauma.
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