Poll and discussion: Ear Problems

[MeSci]

I got hit by traffic quite a bit

You've done well to still be alive then!

 

[Wonko]

You've done well to still be alive then!

Given the last 30 odd years I'm not so sure about that.

When much younger I was highly impact resistant, apart from being hit by things, I used to drive a motorbike, and have had incidents that should have killed me outright, and walked away, most of the time without even a limp. Some of them, from an independent perspective, must have been highly comical. The last one certainly was as I had an audience. Even then I suspect I am only still here as, being a bike, I could just get off if I saw trouble coming - much better to hit something without 300kg of bike to get mangled up with, given the option.

 

[Jenny TipsforME]

transient hearing loss

partially deaf for several months

I wonder how common temporary deafness is?

 

[Wonko]

100% of me's has experienced it, also 100% of I's, so fairly common.

 

[Snow Leopard]

I had lots of ear infections when young along with needing grommets.

 

[MeSci]

I started getting blocked ears again a few days ago. Both ears became almost completely blocked.

I applied sodium bicarbonate in some water to both ears several times a day and it cleared it in less than a day! They were a bit blocked again today, so I applied it again (with gentle clearing with cotton wool a while after each application) and they're OK again.

Maybe I left it too long before?

(I use sodium bicarbonate in water orally daily to combat acidosis.)

 

[NelliePledge]

Not for many years but as a child I had ear infections but nothing out of the ordinary. I do get painful ears when I get swollen glands in my throat as part of a bad flare up of ME symptoms but I think that just comes from being swollen

 

[Little Bluestem]

Interesting how many of us have tinnitus.

Ticked tinnitus which started about the same time as the ME, gets worse after eating (why?)

Do you have any food allergies? Mine gets worse when my allergies are 'active'.

 

[Jenny TipsforME]

I do get painful ears when I get swollen glands in my throat as part of a bad flare up of ME symptoms but I think that just comes

Do you ever try lymphatic massage on yourself? Not sure what I think of this eg

 

[NelliePledge]

Thanks @Jenny TipsforME I will take a look at the videos. I did have Perrin lymphatic massages for a while but couldn’t keep it up as it made me feel pretty rough and I was trying to work.

 

[Jenny TipsforME]

I’ve never done Perrin. I can’t decide with this (similar?) technique whether it makes things better or worse. I can feel and hear movement when I do it (it does something) but it perhaps irritates my lymph nodes.

 

[Ravn]

Interesting how many of us have tinnitus.
Do you have any food allergies? Mine gets worse when my allergies are 'active'.

No food allergies. A few minor Fodmap type intolerances but these don't seem to cause any more or less tinnitus than any other foods. It's more as if the act of digesting food, no matter what, triggers the tinnitus. Maybe something to do with a change in blood flow? Pure speculation, I really have no idea.

 

[Hell..hath..no..fury...]

Just seen this, i think my ears are the only part of my body i’ve never had any trouble with.

Quite literally the only issue i’ve ever had is a piercing not healing and thats a systemic problem not just ear related.

I got my daith pierced on right side a year and a half ago, to see if it would help migraines. It didn’t.

Its still not healed. I am very prone to infections but i’m stunned that this has never happened with this piercing.

Just the other week, i merely touched it and a few moments later, my ear literally filled up with blood and started running down my neck.

I know i should just give up and remove the piercing but i’m stubborn

 

[MeSci]

Just seen this, i think my ears are the only part of my body i’ve never had any trouble with.

Quite literally the only issue i’ve ever had is a piercing not healing and thats a systemic problem not just ear related.

I got my daith pierced on right side a year and a half ago, to see if it would help migraines. It didn’t.

Its still not healed. I am very prone to infections but i’m stunned that this has never happened with this piercing.

Just the other week, i merely touched it and a few moments later, my ear literally filled up with blood and started running down my neck.

I know i should just give up and remove the piercing but i’m stubborn

I hadn't heard of the daith, so looked it up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daith_piercing

 

[Hell..hath..no..fury...]

I hadn't heard of the daith, so looked it up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daith_piercing

Lol! Thats how i felt the first time i knocked it too

 

[Arnie Pye]

I got my daith pierced on right side a year and a half ago, to see if it would help migraines. It didn’t.

Its still not healed. I am very prone to infections but i’m stunned that this has never happened with this piercing.

Why not just remove the piercing and let it heal up?

 

[Hell..hath..no..fury...]

Why not just remove the piercing and let it heal up?

Because i like it If it caused any regular pain or annoyance then i would do that.