My ears never pop or ever have in planes or going up or down hills in a car when other people’s ears around me do.
I never feel ear pain or pressure during elevation or air/water pressure changes.
I’ve looked online for others like me but all I find are people who can’t pop their ears and want to.
How is everyone else’s ears popping and not mine? What does it feel like? Sometimes people say it feels good sometimes it hurts, I don’t get it and when I tell my friends I don’t experience ear popping I get looked at like somethings wrong with me.
Have my ears just evolved to release pressure without popping? (I know I’m stretching here but it would be fun)
On your 80th birthday it’ll happen all at once and your head will explode
Doesn’t sound like the worst way to go to be honest. Great addition to my tombstone “Zed went out with a bang, the downtown pub and surrounding city will never be the same”
It’s not really popping, it’s the sound of two slightly wet surfaces getting drawn apart. It’s only sounds a bit louder due to it taking place close to your eardrum.
It might indeed just be your eustachian tubes being wide, like suggested. You could’ve still had some blocking of the tubes due to to mucus/snot.
Also there blockage might not be painful, it can just come across as a slightly more duller perception of sound around you. You can stimulate the effect by keeping your nose and mouth closed and sightly blowing air, like you would blow your nose (don’t push to hard, though)
If you’re curious you could ask your doc for a ear exam and bring up your concern.
Have you ever had any procedures done on your ears or upper respiratory tract?
The popping typically comes from the middle ear and eustachian tube.
It’s not really a concern I will end up speaking with an online doctor eventually. Currently on a 2 year waitlist in a small town for a family doctor no clinics in town. More wondering if anyone else shares this oddity. No procedures on my ears or respiratory tract. So pressure builds in the tympanic cavity or lower in the eutachian tube then releases though the membrane causing a popping sensation? Interesting. Thanks for the information.
Congrats?
Consider taking up scuba diving. It normally requires active ear pressure normalization (Valsalva maneuver), but it sounds like you’re one of the rare people who will have a wonderful time never having to worry about that.
Does your head make an internal click sound when you swallow?
No click, when I yawn or swallow I do get a brief less then a second of muffled hearing. It’s barely noticeable unless I’m actively trying to notice it.
For me it’s part of yawning. Ears pop when I yawn.
A lot of people have trouble with ears popping especially with airplanes. Hopefully you can take comfort in the stereotype of someone chewing gum to fix that problem.
