Continuing the discussion from Migraine Symptom Tracker App:
Funny you should say that, and I donāt wish to influence your own opinion in any way, but just to state that I wouldnāt be too hard on the doctors here.
I have now got to a point where I get zero (touch wood! ) neurological symptoms, let alone migraine symptoms.
However, I still have āsticky tubeā syndrome (invented that myself ) whereby I seem to have something building up in my anatomy near my ear and it is only āfreedā when I move my jaw and jaw muscles to an extreme. Then I get a cracking and a feeling of āfreeing upā. Then sometimes (but not every time) I get a squishy sensation when I move my jaw for an hour or two.
I notice also that when my tinnitus is at its worst, this set of manoeuvres is most likely to cause a cracking.
It seems to be worst after a nights sleep when it is potentially at its most āstuckā.
Now itās hard to say exactly what this is, but I bet this is mucus build up in the Eustachian tube.
I have other evidence this might be the case:
When I do a lot of exercise, I can get a blockage in my left ear which can clear soon after - itās almost like there is fluid or āsweatā that canāt escape down the ET. It is a temporary feeling of āfullnessā and clears soon after.
I would theorise this could cause the pressure in the Eustachian tube to be incorrectly managed and that could apply air pressure onto the windows of the inner ear and cause hear high frequency hearing loss (as a result of damping) and also irritate the vestibular senses (due to lack of correlation in the pressure to movement).
I could imagine acute changes due to drying or āstickingā might also cause the volume to shrink and cause vertigo?
Just some ideas.
Of course I have no idea why this is happening, but my physiology has never felt right there since the two months leading up to and at the beginning of MAV.
I will probably visit an ENT some day and raise this with them, but I fear they will just say āthereās nothing we can doā or āgo visit your dentistā and offer nothing pro-active as a solution ā¦
Maybe moving country to a more humid place would help?!
Would love to hear if anyone has a similar set of symptoms!