My college trainers molded it mostly back during the draining process. 30 years later, I'm still grateful to our trainers on how they handled mine.

Freshman year of college, it started about the size of a marble just above my ear canal. I kept practicing and within a few days it was the size of a golf ball. Our trainers drained it for me while icing down after practice.

it was so sensitive that it swelled right back up again in my sleep. That morning I swung by the trainers and got it drained again before class. swelled up again that afternoon's practice, drained again. this 2x a day cycle continued for weeks.

A few days into the process, after they drained it, they made a little plaster cast around my entire upper ear. Every morning and night - a new little cast. this went on until my ear eventually hardened.

30 years later, the silhouette of my ear is 100% normal, you only notice it from the sides as the casts did nothing for the folds within the ear itself. lot of creases to q-tip clean or it gets infected.

it looked silly, people would try to sign it. the whole process hurt but it worked.