I ruptured my eardrum in July of this year waterskiing. I had a follow up appt in September and the ARNP said the holes (there were two) were 99% healed. Last week I had some wax build up and a swimmers ear infection where the nurse spent a good 20 minutes rinsing and picking out a marble sized piece of wax out of the same ear. I now how a head cold and when I blow my nose I can hear a squeeking whistling noise that sounds like air coming out of my ear. I'm wondering if the nurse perhaps re injured my ear drum or if that's a normal thing. I've never experience this with a head cold before.View Thread