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I sneezed, and now...I can barely hear?

About half an hour ago, I had a huge sneeze and my both my ears popped. My left ear has the normal clogged feeling that popping does, and I'm used to the feeling for that one, but my right ear feels dreadful--and there's this loud ocean-like noise that's making it feel like I've lost 70% or so of hearing in that ear.

I've had a cold since yesterday, a sore throat and congestion, but I'm in school and my teachers are not letting me go to the nurse or anything.

The ocean noise has, if anything, gotten worse. Even when I cover both of my ears to block out noise, it's just as loud and clear. Will this go away in some time??? Do I need to buy some sort of ear-cleansing fluid?
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the noise still hasn't gone away completely, days later.
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the ocean/air noise has been fluctuating up and down for nearly two hours now, but hasn't gone away.

i finally got to the nurse and she checked for an ear infection, but couldn't see anything. it doesn't hurt like an ear infection, anyways, it barely hurts at all.
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wait it out , if it starts getting painful go see a doctor.
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is your hearing coming back ? this happens to my ear after i go swimming , from my previous experience with my ENT doctor , i had a middle ear infection
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_tympani_muscle

i was looking at this, and just realized that the noise is indeed that when i yawn hard enough. but it's heavily focused on one side of my head.
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