What Is Meniere's Disease?
6. Aural Fullness
If you have flown, or changed altitude quickly in some other way, you will likely have experienced aural fullness. It is the sensation of fullness in your ear, and it is a result of a difference in air pressure between your inner ear and outside of your head.
When it happens as a result of altitude changes, yawning will usually help to equalize the air pressure, thus causing the symptom to go away. Depending on the cause, however, removing the symptom is not necessarily as easy as just yawning. Patients with Meniere’s disease can experience aural fullness and removing the symptoms is not easy.
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