What Can i Do about my ears hurting when Landing?
As you may know this is probably the worst part of the flight, is when your landing. I already will have a ton of gum, but will that help when landing? What are some techniques you do that ease the pain when landing?
July 18th, 2010 at 6:54 am
The best one I have found is to plug your nose and hold your breath (as if you were going to go under water) then “try” to blow air out through your nose. Obviously, since you are holding your nose, you won’t be able to, but it will force the pressure out of your ears.
July 18th, 2010 at 7:53 am
I agree with the first answer. It works very well with me too.
Otherwise chewing gum or gummy bears should help a bit during landing time.
July 18th, 2010 at 8:26 am
Two good suggestions above.
Here’s another one:
Closing up your nose and blowing it works for me, but if your ears already got stuffed, it sometimes unstuffs them suddenly causing a momentarily painful sensation when the sound waves from around you hit the ear drum (you were sitting in near silence then all of a sudden the ears opened up)
A good way to keep them from being stuffed in the first place is to chew and swallow, but even better as I found is to yawn.
Not everybody I know are capable of yawning voluntarily, so you may try practicing beforehand xD. It’s not actual yawn, but just a moment before it when the ears unstuff. So you don’t have to go all the way and actually yawn, if that helps…. But you have to keep doing that, as if ears get stuffed badly it may not work… Then use the nose blow technique.
LEM.
P.S. And I almost forgot!
This again comes from personal experience!
My ears usually hurt the worst (if at all) when with stuffed nose. So if you have stuffed nose issue – take a good nasal decongestant pill about an hour before the descent begins (that would mean about 1.5 hours before you’re supposed to land) so that it is just on the peak of the performance (means clearest nasal passage) when landing begins. Also if taking allergy meds, again – time them so that you land with your nose the clearest!
July 18th, 2010 at 8:27 am
what all my friend tell me to do and i always do is just chew like 3 pieces of gum!!!! it always works for me!
July 18th, 2010 at 9:10 am
I’m a frequent flier and I’ve found that chewing gum, or sucking on a mint or something helps a lot. Also, wearing earphones seems to help too. As well as this if you open your mouth wide and then close it that helps slightly.
July 18th, 2010 at 10:08 am
I don’t think the gum chewing thing really helps personally, except that it can make you swallow which does help a little.
I do scuba diving (in which you also “change altitude”) and find that ADVIL SINUS is really great – it gets rid of any little sinus blockage you might have which is where a lot of the pain can come from when you are taking off/landing. Take about an hour before take-off or landing, and you’ll feel great!
July 18th, 2010 at 10:41 am
Gum is good!
Also, you might want to try some boiled sweets.
Just try and keep on swallowing, and it should be ok.
But I don’t understand why it causes you pain?
I really hope the landing is more comfortable for you this time.
July 18th, 2010 at 11:12 am
i recomend taking sutifed and mucusnex my doctor told me this it will clear your tubes and take this 1 hour before your flught!!!!! it will work you can chew gum also! my ears used to KILL it felt like my head would blow up but since iv been using this medicine it worked a lot so have a wonderful flight! :]