Ear Explosions in the Sky!

So this morning, I got up way before the sun was up to catch a plane to go to Austin. Exciting right? I’m going to Austin for spring break to visit my brothers. The flight went great I watched some tv shows on my computer to pass the time. I was sniffling on the plane, which sucked and had to keep getting tissues but it was still good. Until…the plane was landing, which takes around thirty minutes. That’s when I started getting a horrible pain from my left ear and it slowly moved to my right. I kept telling myself it would be over soon and stop being a baby. But then the pain didn’t go away. People have ear pressure irritations, I had before, but nothing like the pain I felt today. It was excruciating, I started crying and rocking and grabbing my ears. It felt like my ear drums were exploding! I was freaked out and wanted to be anywhere but on that plane. I wanted us to land immediately! But time kept passing slowly and the pain was giving me a headache and moving down the back of the neck. After the painful thirty minutes, I thought the pain would be done. The pain was gone, but replaced by an intense pressure that made the fifteen minutes it took to get off the plane miserable. So me freaked out and thinking maybe I’m just overreacting call my mom. She doesn’t understand the seriousness, so she calms me down and says I just need to chew some gum. So I think I had just overreacted, but an hour goes by and I’m watching tv to try to not think about the pressure and I’m chewing gum. The pressure is still there, but it comes and goes now that its almost 1 am.  Story short, the pressure stayed all day, even after I took Sudafed to relieve my sinuses. Even right now, I don’t know if it’s better or if the Sudafed is just tricking my body into thinking it’s ok. Worst plane experience ever!