I mean to say that I felt the acetic acid in my right eye.
No anatomical connection is likely unless you are the lone person on this earth with an eye-ear pipeline.
How is it possible? The same things that can irritate the eye can irritate the sinuses' and skin that lines the nose, throat and ear.
JCH MD
SAME HERE. And I'm not crazy. I wear liquid liner and it often seeps out through my eyes also... Tear duct? But DEFINITELY has been inside my ear before also,
Same here. Weat eyears with intact ear drums when cry or in the morning some times. My MD had no explanation ether.
Eyes and ear are both connected to nose? Could these connections be aligned in some cases such way that liquid can pass from eyes to ears?
I experience this as well, but only when I cry laying down! I lay on my side and the bottom ear always ends up wet. I've been told that it's probably just my tears rolling down my face into or onto my ear, but I always have earbuds in. How is it possible for my tears to run down my face, back into my ear, and within my earbud as it appears? It isn't. The tears have to come from within and that's really just simple physics.
I also have this but it only affects my right ear. When I cry, my right ear gets wet from inside the ear canal. It doesn't bother me I just find it interesting. I wondered was there some unusual connection between eye and ear or was there a gland in my ear that reacts when I cry. I've heard of someone else this happens to, so you're not alone!
There are quite a no. of articles on pubmed about first branchial clefts. You can get quite unusual versions of them.
The one I referenced is at:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24669347
Free to read online. They speculate there was an infra-auricular fistula that closed due to infection.
In my case I'm not speculating the salivary glands are relevant (although it might depend why you are crying? too much chilli?)
The human body is wonderfully complex and variable. Who knows whether there are people contrary to what you would expect that do have a connection from their eye, or from their nasolacrimal gland, to their ear? Never say never. From experience, standard anatomy textbooks don't always account for the strange weird and wonderful variations that you can come across.
I wouldn't dismiss people's reports of unusual happenings in their body - I would try to understand.
Don't need a hankie thanks, this really is not an issue for me! ;)
Did you ever get a diagnosis for this? I have noticed this for a long time now especially if i cry in bed. However today I let out tears sitting down and my ears watered up. I didn't cry very much so not a lot came out. I do wonder if this has something to do with my eustachian tube dysfunction and sometimes feeling i can whistle through my ears.
Hello All, I am so grateful to find this post. Every single time I cry my ears water. For as long as I can remember. I'm 52. Not just a little bit, but any person could put their pinky in the front of my ear canal and feel it on the outside of where the ear canal begins. It happens a tiny bit when I eat as well (plus my nose runs a little and I have to dab the inside with a tissue. It is a clear and watery. It is NOT thick like nasal discharge when crying). The more I cry, the more water comes out. I can feel it when it starts. It may seem impossible, but I'm telling you it is real, FOR YEARS. Then it makes me want to itch the inside of my ear at the top of the ear canal but way in the back. Mostly I don't do it but if I'm crying like at the end of the movie "The Notebook" (haha), then my ear really waters even more, along with my nose that is now full of a different thick snot (for lack of a better term). I have no idea why or how this happens. All I can say is I'm curious to know and thankful that I see others who expereince the same. It's not a problem in any way, just interesting. And itchy.
I too experience pretty much to a t what vision deals with. Sitting, standing, laying down. Doesn't matter. If my eyes water, my ears fill with a clear liquid and my nose runs with the same clear liquid. Enough where you can feel it from barely touching my outer ear. I have no history of ear infections or ear trauma. I wish I could say it isn't an issue but I'm allergic to everything and i cry easy so I'm constantly dealing with leaky and itchy ears. And no, i haven't over cleaned my ears or anything. There's absolutely no pain associated with this. I'm so grateful to have found this post because it's been driving me nuts!
I find the Dr.’s responses both dismissive and disrespectful. This kind of arrogant way of dealing with people’s reported maladies (to call somebody delusional) is not only medically inappropriate, but also ethically repulsive.
I also experience this while crying. Laying or standing. My ears get wet and it always bothers me to the point that I gotta wipe the inside.
same here every time i cry i feel an annoying itch in my ear and then it get wet
Every time I cry, the inside of my ears get wet, as if the tears are leaking through my ears. I came here from a google search asking if the tear ducts are connected to the ears with no luck. It’s almost as if when I cry, the dried up wax liquifies maybe? I’ve noticed more wax when I dry my ears out too, even if I had just cleaned them out not that long ago. My theory is now wondering if face/head heats up enough to melt the wax so I notice it more? I hope I’m not the only one out there, however this may be used as a “fun fact” about myself later on.
This also happens to me every time i cry. It's always bothered me because it gets itchy. I don't love having to clean my ears with a qtip after crying, but it's the only way to ease the itch.
I do now wonder if it is some sort of dysfunction of the eustachian tube, as that is sort of connected the eye in a way that tears drain into the nasal cavity, which the eustachian tube in the ear is also connected to. Im not a doctor but I could figure those connections out. Makes you wonder.
I'm prone to ear infections and my ears constantly pop like when I flex my jaw, yawn or swallow. I have tinnitus and they're extremely sensitive to sound. I noticed the same thing when I cry, it feels like there's a liquid draining from the inside of my ear for a brief moment. It's clear and watery but feels more like a solidified wax. My ears leak a lot though and I checked with my doctor, there's no ear infection currently but I feel like it's an inner ear infection because even my balance is off and my eyes feel "sick" and have pressure. I think there's a link to the way the sinus glands affect its neighboring glands in the ears to trigger it from an emotional stimulus maybe like the way tinnitus is linked to patients with anxiety and depression.