If its basically a straight shot from your outer ear to the ear drum, how does water get ‘stuck’ in your ear after swimming?
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Also not all ear canals are created equal. I probably should have had tubes in my ears but they were testing an antibiotic at the time so my broke ass parents went with that. (not upset!).
But I was like 21 when the doc went “you see that picture on the wall of how the ear canal goes? … yours looks nothing like that.” He was a really good and funny doc, had him for a good decade.
He said my ears did U shape canal. I tried once to call around to find out how to keep from getting swimmers ear from chlorine pool… they all say try this… well this HURT like hell and had me jumping around like an idiot after just one ear. Looked at the little bottle again and it said “Stop use if it causes pain” or something like that. I’m like NO SHIT SHERLOCK. Issue was I had ruptured eardrums. Two on one and one on the other when I was a kid.
A bonus story is I knew I had swimmers ear and went to urgent care after work. The doc goes “Oh, that ones been perforated, and is clearly infected, lets see what the healthy side looks like… oh that one is perforated too.”.
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