sleep help: Anyone know what a busted or ruptured eardrum feels like? - Help.com

Sounds like you’ve poked too far!! lol.

I spent the first 10years of my lovely life having 8 operations because i had ruptured/perferated eardrums.

When you have busted your eardrum you are more or less completely deaf. All the time. Its not on and off.

You are also more prone to ear infections and busted eardrums are diagnosed after long term sympoms (6months-2years).

It should be fine after a day or two hun. If its not get back to your doctor and you might need some eardrops or something. Next time use eardrops from the chemist…don’t clean them out using any objects next time!

I think you should ask to see the doctor again. It could be that you now have an infection which may need some antibiotics. That can make the whole area seem hot or numb. Ear infections are very common after throat and sinus problems as the whole lot are connected. Sometimes an infection gets missed in its early stages, so the doctor may not have been able to identify it when he first examined you.

Or it could be that you damaged the ear canal in poking around or have somehow lodged some ear-wax where it shouldn’t be.

It’s best to get someone to check it out. Usually these things sort themselves out in a day or two, but sometimes they need a helping hand to heal.

Good luck.

Oh.. and don’t every poke anything in your ear! Not even a cotton bud!

cli390 wrote:
just to add too:

Around my ear is all numb, about 4ins around my whole ear…

dont really understand why its numb

Could be nerve damage? Still its pretty iffy. I doubt its even that. Prob an infection.

Ok I am going to tell my story. I had swimmers ear about 3 weeks ago and I took the swimmer’s ear medication. It finally went away and then my sinuses started acting up and I go an ear infection. I took some antibiotics prescribed by my doctor. It was gone for a bout a week and now it is back worse than ever. It was throbbing and now I can’t hear out if it completely. I feel asleep on it and when I woke up my ear was all wet. So I lightly put a cotton swab in my ear and softly dabbed the inside of my ear and it was all gross and yucky. Now it feels like there is tons of water sitting right there and wont come out but it isn’t water because I have kept my ear dry all week. Even in the shower. And now I am reading all this stuff about busted ear drums and stuff and I am kinda scared. I am still taking those antibiotics and it kinda helped. But again it still hurts like crazy and throbbing. HELP!

i took my 8 month old son to the doc last week beause he was pulling at his left ear doc said nothing to worry about. then friday night i get home from work and his left ear is pouring blood. rush him to the hospital and they sa that there is an abnormal growth. get antibotics and ear drops. saturday ome home still pouring blood so take him to different hospital. they say that his eardrum busted. give more ear drops. he dosent act like it bothers him anymore. its still bleeding. what should i do.