So when I was younger, I had a water balloon pop directly on my ear and had pains in it for the rest of the day. I went to the doctor and he said it should heal and if not come in again. He said my ear drum was bruised and I soon forgot about the "come back" part. Now whenever I am surrounded by medium to loud noise for extended periods of time, the ear that the balloon popped on has a sound like the audio inside of it is cracking or getting scrambled. What should I do?