For those of you who have ear symptoms, can you please describe them?
My ear symptoms feel like eustachian tube dysfunction at times due to the fact that occasionally they will pop and bring some relief from the fullness. At other times it just feels like a very deep fullness within the ears. I find that the more full the ears feel the louder the tinnitus is as well.
When the barometric pressure is dropping the fullness can get pretty bad. It can feel like someone is squeezing my ears with about a hundred pound of force.
Would love to know what others experience with this, or if this is totally bizarre.
Your ear symptoms sound very similar to mine. I don’t know about the barometric pressure, but I do know that they sometimes pop more when I’m driving (strangely, in a certain location on the way to work), which provides some relief (albeit, temporary), and they sometimes plug up more (generally in the same location on my way home). Other than that, I can’t tell what makes them worse or better. I just know it’s really annoying… :roll:
My ears feel like they are blocked all the time. Almost like when you are going up a mountain. I have started Nort and have noticed they don’t seem as bad now. I’ve only been on the Nort for a week (10mg) slowly going to increase dose.
Also, sometimes i get this weird sound in my right ear only for about 10 seconds then goes away… kinda scary
My ears do not pop. I’ve tried, they just block up until I can’t hear much at all, and then it settles again if I swallow. I tried nasal spray (my GP thought it was eustachian tube issues) but that did nothing. I constantly feel like my head and ears are “full”. Driving up and down hills in a car makes it worse, as does going on elevators and escalators. I also have a constant high-pitched sound in my ears. Can’t notice t when there’s noise, but at night when it’s quiet it can rive me mad. And like Juliemarie said above, I also will get occasional moments of loud tinnitus for fifteen seconds and then it goes.
Hi, I also get the fullness of ear and tinnitus, right ear seems to be a bit better, but left one drives me nuts. I hear a crunching when I swallow. Did he worst thing and kept poking around with cotton bud, convinced it was a hard piece of wax, but GP said nothing there. My other symptom apart from the ears and head is my neck which feels so stiff, but think this is because of the strain of concentrating when I am walking about. My head feels too heavy for my neck to support. At the moment I am not so much dizzy, but unsteady.
I have major ear symptoms, it can be such a drag. Mine started with pain off and on, mostly in my right ear. I now refer to them as ear migraines, totally my own made up idea It can get like sever, ice pick pain from time to time. On a daily basis I hear rice krispies in my ear when I swallow, snap…crackle…pop! Off and on I have strange sounds and tinnitus in my right ear only!!
I have major ear symptoms, it can be such a drag. Mine started with pain off and on, mostly in my right ear. I now refer to them as ear migraines, totally my own made up idea It can get like sever, ice pick pain from time to time. On a daily basis I hear rice krispies in my ear when I swallow, snap…crackle…pop! Off and on I have strange sounds and tinnitus in my right ear only!!
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I love the description of rice krispies in your ear! That perfectly sums it up for mine too- thanks
I have rice krispies on swallowing
Constant tinnitus (never had it before the big bang) which I’ve got used to- used to keep me up at night/couldn’t sleep without a fan on.
I was scared to fly because of the ear symptoms and thought I’d go deaf or do something to screw them up even worse… but it was fine. No change.
As I understood it from Dr S, the reason for the ear symptoms are because the blood vessels going to the ear, end in the ear, and don’t go anywhere. I’m not describing it very well, sorry. I think it’s called ‘end arteries’ or something. But basically, they end there, so that’s why the symptoms reside there. Makes sense.
It can get like sever, ice pick pain from time to time. On a daily basis I hear rice krispies in my ear when I swallow, snap…crackle…pop! Off and on I have strange sounds and tinnitus in my right ear only!!