i can't examine your ear over the internet but i suspect your olive oil-based ear drops have softened/liquefied your ear wax to the point where you now have a complete blockage lying against your eardrum. if you are not having any ear pain or signs of an ear infection you can safely wash out your ear with a gentle stream of warm water (you can use an ear syringe or the shower). this will likely dislodge this waxy mass and your hearing will be miraculously improved. do not use q-tips or you will pack the wax in more tightly.
put eardrops in ear after having the flu (ear felt muffled) after putting my ear drops in my hearing has became worse? . i've approaching the end of having flu most symptoms have gone. however i felt like my hearing in my left ear had become muffled. i bought some 'olive oil eardrops' in hope that it would fix my hearing after putting them in earlier today almost instantly my hearing became worse and it is now almost completely deaf in that ear. i can't seem to get the oil out at all i'm panicking because it has made my hearing even worse. i can't hear any fizzing/crackling nor can i hear anything moving.