7 Signs Your Hearing Trouble May Be Starting in Your Nose
Summary: If your ears often feel full or plugged, this list is for you. Small passages called Eustachian tubes connect your nose to your middle ears. Swelling around them affects ear pressure and makes sounds seem muffled.
Your ears feel blocked, but there's no wax
A clear ear canal does not rule out pressure or fluid behind the eardrum. Either can leave your ears feeling blocked even when there's no wax to remove.
Your hearing gets worse when your nose is blocked
Nasal swelling can interfere with the passages that balance pressure in your middle ears. When that happens, a stuffy nose comes with muffled hearing.
Your ears pop when you swallow or yawn
Swallowing and yawning help open the Eustachian tubes and equalize pressure. You may hear a pop and briefly feel less fullness in your ears.
A cold ends, but your ears stay blocked
Swelling around the Eustachian tubes or fluid in the middle ear can outlast a cold. Your nose feels better, but your ears remain plugged and sounds stay dull.
It comes and goes
Middle-ear pressure can change as the Eustachian tubes open and close. These shifts can leave your ears feeling blocked in the morning and clearer later. Hearing loss caused by nerve damage tends to be steady rather than changeable.
Your hearing aids made things louder, but not clearer
Amplification sends more sound toward the inner ear. It does not change a passage that is not opening. In a quiet room the extra volume helps. In a crowded one, everything is louder and just as hard to follow.
Your tests came back normal
A hearing test measures what reaches the inner ear. It does not measure whether the passage behind your eardrum is opening. Normal results can mean nothing was found where they looked.
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