Strange ears

Three of my grandchildren have very sticky out ears. They live in Spain. DIL is Spanish and the two girls had their ears pierced at a couple weeks old. Apparently it is the custom. I was shocked the first time. DIL blames husband's family for the ears but her dad and brother also sport the same! Apparently all three are on the list in Spain to have them pinned back. Do they still do that here?

One of my granddaughters has very sticky-out ears and very thin hair so they can't be hidden. Nobody has ever teased her and she doesn't seem at all bothered. She recently had her ears pierced (she's eight) which I would not have allowed if I was her mother as she's too young and sparkly earrings only draw attention to her wing-nut ears.

Thank you so much icylittle, what a brilliant idea. This is the first time anyone has offered a solution to my painful ears

Thanks Elegran. I feel much better now!

Yes its true. ..earlobes droop some as we age....especially if we wore heavy earrings in the past. Piercing will enlarge too. I have always had very small ears...now at 78 the lobes droop. Wear stud earrings if it bothers you...other have new piercing higher up so droop isn't as noticible.

Hair and nails don't really grow after death - the skin dehydrates so that they stick out more and look as though they have grown. Ears probably the same.

Eeew! We were told at school about hair and nails continuing to grow after death. And now ears too? I really hate that thought - that much of my body will still be carrying on after I've stopped.

I must admit I don't pay much attention to my ears - except to hang dangly earrings on. I'd always supposed that was why my lobes are getting bigger not that they were just heading south along with much of the rest of me.

Yes. Ears do get bigger as we age - and after. My DD studied Audiology and when the last-but-one pope was lying in state she stunned me by remarking 'His ears will still be growing'. Apparently our ears carry on growing for 5 days after we die!

I can wiggle my ears too. I don't do that with a cycling helmet either.

harrigran You could try these Quite comfortable in the daytime at any rate, I wear them with a cycling helmet. (I am only suggesting the earmuffs, don't recommend the cycling helmet in bed unless you fall out a lot)

Luckygirl Thank you for that! I have just been sitting here trying. No luck though.

if an audiologist says that, I'll believe it

luckygirl I love it - please persuade your DD to make a You Tube video - that would definitely go viral. as for ear-selfies - earings in or out would you say?

Would I be very cruel to say that were Alexander Armstrong to dress in green with a pointy hat and sit on a toadstool, his ears would be perfect?

According to the audiologist I saw ears don't continue to grow as we get older they drop or droop, head south and only appear to grow. I always thought they continued growing.

Definitely, ears do get bigger with age. I don't know what prompted me to suddenly remember this weird fact, but I do know my Mum's ears got bigger. So, this year I decided to grow my hair longer, to cover them, after years of short spiky cuts. Know what? My hair has decided that it now has a bit of a wave or kink to it, where before it was pipe water straight, odd.

I would definitely see your GP Harrigran, and ask about it.As Maggie says( above) something could be made that would give some comfort . worth a try!
Luckygirl, your post made me laugh , ' packing up' ears .

harrigran, I'm sure your GP could refer you for help with your problem. My MIL had a soft rubber piece custom-made by an NHS prosthetics technician to help with a malformation of her nose. It looked amazing, but unfortunately she rarely wore it!

My DD has always been able to pack her ears up - i.e. screw up the outer bits and stuff them in her earhole and get them to stay there! Why - I hear you ask - would you wish to do that?

Don't ask me - I first noticed her doing it when she was about one - she walked towards me and I thought: "Heavens above the child has a deformed ear and it has taken me a whole year to notice it!" Then she popped it out - big sigh of relief.

She still does it - strange girl.

We could all take selfies of our ears and post them on here.

I have heard that earlobes grow longer as one ages and I think mine are a bit longer than they once were, but it happens so imperceptibly that I can't be sure. I don't wear heavy earrings any more as they might lengthen the lobes!

Do you know rosesarered I have never consulted a GP about my ears. My mother told me that if I went missing I would be easy to identify because she didn't know anyone else with ears like mine. I wonder if some clever person could make a very soft rubber mould that would help.

Harrigran, that sounds very painful, could you construct something from cotton wool pads to wear to sleep?I immediately felt my own ears for rims on reading your post, and of course they are there.What do doctors say about it, you must have asked them over the years?

I don't know about ears growing as you age but I have the weirdest ears I have ever seen, they do not have rims which means I get sore cartilage when I rest my head on a pillow.