The Definitive Cauliflower Ear Thread (please sticky)

[EE6_TBOIO_MATb]

See, this is why we should prevent white belts from starting threads








Joke LOL. Great Stuff.

It's kind of funny we get a cauli sticky, though

I still don't understand why peolple let that happen by not wearing headgear.
I always have it on, I even feel more protected with it, almost like mouthguard / groin protection.

[GentileJitsu]

if you feel your ear start to hurt, meaning your getting the cauli... just ice it man.

[supertac]

Originally Posted by GentileJitsu

if you feel your ear start to hurt, meaning your getting the cauli... just ice it man.

Sometimes it's not that easy. Cauliflower can be from continuos grinding (in which case ice and headgear will work fine) or it can be from a hard strike. You could go from no cauliflower to cauliflower in the amount of time it takes a punch to hit your ear or for your ear to hit a hip or something.

[HuntingtonBeach]

My ear has been really sore for the last 2 weeks or so... I went to get a hair cut yesterday and when the barber bent my ear down to cut the hair behind there it hurt like hell.

I dont see any swelling, but im feeling pretty paranoid anyway.

Is this normal or is the beginning stages of cauliflower?

[JerseyTrash]

So what kind of needles would someone reccomend buying?

[Theodore]

I'm in the throes of it right now on my right ear. Too bad I have a MMA tourney in a week. It's been pretty damn tender, It's changed the way I rolled today. I told one guy to please look out for it when working on Gn and first thing he did was hit it. Grrrr.... He got his.

[YeahBee]

Originally Posted by Zankou

My number one tip, which has saved me enormous amounts of trouble with cauli:

Don't grind your ears.

It's just that simple. Do not grind your ears. Don't rip your head out of chokes, don't let your opponent crush your ears. Insist on using technique, not force, to escape chokes. If you feel your ears being crushed, then unless you're about to win the gold medal, just tap. Zero ego, and you are back on the mat, rolling right away. Instead of sitting in the &*#@)(& ER, being lanced and stitched, then wearing headgear for two months.

Accidents still happen, but most cauli comes from people senselessly grinding their ears, so determined to fight through things.

I do that and yet I don't have cauli

My mate at the dojo wrestlerd for 20-ish years and he has no cauli

Is it jsut that some people don't get it at all?

[pittfrog]

Susceptibility is genetic, yes. Some people just don't get it.

[eclipse]

Originally Posted by HuntingtonBeach

My ear has been really sore for the last 2 weeks or so... I went to get a hair cut yesterday and when the barber bent my ear down to cut the hair behind there it hurt like hell.

I dont see any swelling, but im feeling pretty paranoid anyway.

Is this normal or is the beginning stages of cauliflower?

i had this like a year ago

hurts for short amounts of time occasionally when rubbed

i think its just a bit of damaged or broken cartilage. healed up fine, generally doesnt hurt at all anymore and no signs of cauliflower yet here

[Theodore]

How long can you have it puffed up before it's "untreatable"? I wanna do something about mine, but with my fights coming up so soon, I'd like to get them out of the way before messing w/ it. Would waiting another week be too late?