I read thru a couple of other posts, and meant to post this as well...my LEFT ear, not Right, where the problem has been, started 'turning off'..no hearing and enormous pain! Feels/sounds like a screaming jet engine inside my ear...and after a couple of hours, I am sicker from the constant pain...so I'm at work and dying, and search my purse for anything...I run across the old tube of Anbesol that I had been using for my tooth/jaw pain. Well, I squirted my ear full of Anbesol!! Its just an analgesic! I have to tell you, it DID feel a little better! Remembered I had liquid lidocaine in the fridge and tried that when I got home, but the anbesol has worked better! I wicked out the remaining liquid when I could stand it. HAHAHAHAHA.