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First, congrats for being able to do routine dives in 8 knots of current
(14.816 km/h).
May be it was the mass inertia of the water which affected your eardrum
?
Joke aside, see a doctor.Do not dive yet.
 Your ear will most likely be hurt. The doc can look at your eardrum and
inspect it . Normally it should have the colour of a pale moon. Red
means swollen, stretched, sprained. 
He will probably do an impedance test. For this, you get a plug into
your eardrum, and a small suction of varying pressure is applied. The
dynamic response of the tympan will show further evidence of which
malices your ears are suffering.
Matthias

> Thom Hadfield schrieb:
> 
> I was doing a routine dive to about 55 ffw with about 8 knors of
> current. Upon surfacing I got a reverse squeeze. I descended and tried
> to come up slower but my ear was still hurting and I could hear it
> gurgle. I was never able to get it to adjust and had to finally
> surface through the pain. Since then I have had some pain in my ear
> and a dulness in sound. If I try to clear my ear it gurgles and pops
> and hisses. I assume I either stretched or perforated my eardrum and
> the gurgling noise is fluid and mucus inside my middle ear. This has
> been 2 days and the pain is subsiding (exceot for when I got the
> bright idea of using alcohol to dry it out) but it still feels full
> and is making gargleing noises. I was supposed to dive this weekend is
> a week normally enough to allow this to heal or would I be pressing my
> luck. Any suggestions?
> 
> 
> THom
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