Side Sleeping > Muffled Hearing

Sometimes after side sleeping on one side during the night I wake up with muffled hearing on that ear. My pillow is not very hard but not soft either - somewhere in between. Could this be dangerous in any sense for your ear? I don’t do any drastic movements or such. Just lying carefully on the sides. Could a freaking pillow affect your inner ear? Or do any other damage?

Also. I believe I’m suffering from ETD, I will have a specialist looking at it in the next week.

Perhaps it's ETD that is affected by the side sleeping, which contributes to muffled hearing?

 

I often get this too as I’m a side sleeper but after being up and about for a little while it goes away. I’m not sure why it happens though. Gravity ?

 

Yeah have experienced it before and then it went away after a little while. But now it feels like it hits me for days. But could also be all other underlying causes that affects my ear. ETD and what not.

 

Yes I woke up with a stuffed left ear after a head cold and it lasted for about 5 weeks. I had been laying on that side too. Ears can be the last things to right themselves after a cold my doctor told me.