The audiogram shows a loss of 20-25 db in the low frequency range. This made it a bit better, but I still feel like having cotton wool in my ear. Then I got two intratympanic injections with cortison. I got oral cortison tablets, which didn't help at all. He believes that I still had water from the nasal irigations left and that this led to the accident. However, after this dive, I felt like my right ear was completely blocked.Īfter flying back home, I went to my ENT and he diagnosed a in-ear barotrauma. After a minute or so, I managed to equalize once and the exruciating pain I was feeling went away, so that I continued diving. I was trying to equalize every second, but it wasnt working and I was too stubborn to give up and ascend. Because I was stupid, I continued to descend even when I felt overwhelming pain. On the fifth, it seems that I still had some water in the nose from the saline rinse and when I went down, I couldn't equalize and started feeling pain in the right ear. The first four dives went without any problems. Because I thought that I would be alright, I went diving anyway. In this time I was also doing nasal irigations with a salt water solution.
The problem was that my next diving vacation was 4 weeks after the surgery and I didn't completely recover yet. In summer 2019 I decided to fix this problem and had surgery (eustachian tuboplasty with a balloon). It took a few months afterwards until my ear was completely ok. I continued diving and finished the PADI OWD course, even having 6-7 dives after that, while ignoring the increasing pain in my right ear. I started diving in 2017 and noticed right away that I had trouble equalizing the pressure in my right ear.
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