I feel your pain!  I have not seen a doctor of any kind in 14 years until this year when I had to see a doctor twice for my first ear once for the second ear infection I had.  I never had them until this year when I went swimming in my friend's neighbor's pool on 6-25-09. A week after my left ear felt plugged up like with water and couldn't hear well and had a ringing in that ear as well.  I decided to go see a doctor for my ear, on first visit 7-2-09 looked in my ear said I had an infection and gave me perscriptions for ear drops and ammoxicillian and said don't swim for a week. He also said to come back in one week for recheck, which I did on 7-7. I then went swimming at the same house on 7-11 and ears would plug up but would unplug themselves and again went swimming on 7-13 and after that had a plugged up ear. This time it was in my right ear, that visit on 7-16to the doctor for that one was all they did was use Peroxide and warm water filled syringe type bottle and flushed out wax in my ear four times. My friend and another neighbor said I probably got them because they don't check the balance of the pool and the chemicals in it PH, chlorine, etc.I also recently went swimming at a ramada Hotel pool with my cousins when I was at the racine County fair with my family in wisconsin, while swimming there i aslo had plugged ears but as i continued and they seemed to unplug themselves which was good.   

First I want to say thanks to Lisabethk and Pinkers! Then I want to say URRRG!! My ENT is on vacation and so I don't know when this will all be resolved... most likely by the time he gets back it will all have setted down and whatever was causing it will have mysteriously disappeared and so nothing will get done just like the last a thousand times.  He was on vacation the last time it happened. I don't want to switch ENT's, he is great, without him, I would be DEAF. I know this... he saved my hearing did something when everyone else gave up, but still this is getting ridiculous.

sorry to hear that you are having Ear problems I fel for you ! keep the faith Hope you find a good ENT !!

lisa