Yoga asana for an inner ear condition? Make the bodymind all-around healthier via asana (via practicing poses and their far-reaching effects on what I call the 'ecology' of the bodymind), which might then effect and improve a biological condition in my inner, right ear? How best to think about this rationally, vis-a-vis western medicine, but without access to a medical doctor's diagnosis or western medicine's interventions currently, - vis-a-vis yoga? Which yoga poses to do, in particular, if any, and why? What's actually going on inside my ear biologically, that I could assess, and then show, with clinical trials even, that yoga poses would benefit? How to complement yoga and western allopathic medicine?
(Yoga - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Yoga and
Medicine - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Medicine). I'm glad this ear condition is inviting me to extend my already daily yoga practice with more yoga, - particularly inverted poses, rotated karnapidasana - from plow pose, bring knees to either side of my head on the floor, which affects the whole biology of the head, neck and upper chest, - and breathing practices. See poses and WUaS Yoga, wiki page below.


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Dear Cyd MD and Byr MD,

Thanks so much for looking at my ear some months ago, Cyd.

What I'm (possibly) calling my Otitis externa or Otitis media or Eustachian tube dysfunction or 'Middle Ear Effusion (OME) with Bubbling Air' or swimmer's ear issue - which is it, I wonder - comes and goes. Now it's active again. Is there a little bubble in there, I wonder, like that photo I showed you in Youtube here -
'Middle Ear Effusion (OME) with Bubbling Air'

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmAj0YFYCvw (this video is accessible here - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Medical_School)?

I'm curious about what you think about trying ear drops with an antibiotic in them, to eliminate the possibility of a bacterial infection which some web sites suggest to be a possibility. (Remember, I've had an off-again on-again 'swimmer's ear' even since the late 1960s in the Yale swimming program, with many years of 'off'). I don't see my anthropological field site of the Harbin Hot Springs' warm pool going away, so I just would like both to solve the issue, and with ongoing exposure to water, if possible. If the issue isn't partly bacterial (or fungal), would you eventually think that a primary care physician would suggest seeing an ENT (with Covered California / Obamacare - which begins January 1, 2014; I'm also thinking through how to find the best primary care physician, possibly in the teaching hospital of Stanford Medical School, or in the best close hospital ... Stanford, HYP, MIT as undergraduate?) or similar?

Besides (water) ear plugs (which I also wear for bagpiping, and which 'messes' with the 'ecology' or 'breathabilitiy' of my right ear), which don't suit me, do you think there's a solution for what ever is going on in there, physically / physiologically (is my hypothesis), which an ENT could help with, or should I just live with the occasional slightly impacted feeling inside my right inner ear? (I'd like for there to be a resolution :) . I think this ear condition is a complex case, complicated by bagpiping with foam or ETY (with a filter in them) ear plug protection devices, baths and showers, Harbin warm pool field work in water, and a history of an ear condition that goes back decades.

ETY ear plugs, which have a filter and which many musicians use seem better than foam ones.

Best regards and thank you,
Scott