I have had this problem over and over for years - always the right ear is worse or the only one. Have given up most dairy, have a good diet.
Have taken lots of different antibiotics etc and nose sprays and none of it helps. Now the antibiotics I take also give me a bad stomach and headaches etc Feel worse than ever. Have tried the various breathing techniques , yawning etc none of it works. Got an ear popper which relieves it a bit but then it is bac\k to square one.
I'm in same boat I've always got blocked up ears,like there full up,but my hearing is fine,I've got tinnitus as well.ive tried yawning,and wriggling my jaw,ear tapping ,nothings worked.even I've got allergies Rhinitis ,think that's why there blocked,was siggested to put menthol behind the ears.give that a go .
Hi Marlene. Is it both ears with you then ? With me it is the right ear and left ear is a little bit iffy now and then.
Hve tried lots of antibiotics and all useless and they damage your gut flora so dont want to take them. The yawning thing helps if it is a slight block but not with this.
ma\ybe the menthol behnd the ears will help. Some people get grommits put in their ears to relieve it and empty it. But maybe it just gets full up again then. My right ear is hurting otherwise i would not mind so much, but when it hurts it gets me down. How are you today?
Get good and bad days with this condition,same with the tinnitus,tend to get earaches at odd times,only since onset to rhinitis,never had problems prior,I've found the weather is a big factor to it,I do take now Migraleve,there far better than odd paracetamol,I've been taking,not into tabs ,if avoidable.My cousin had grommets put in couple yrs ago,but she gets bad Virtigo,so I think her grommets not helped her very much.No one seems to get much relief,from all I've read ,sometimes works short ,but not long term that's what we all want to get it sorted period.ive been at this for longer than I care to remember,I've not come up with an answer to any of it .not found anyone else either,but we never give up.Hows your day?
Have taken a tramadol and hope it helps get rid of this ear ache, it really is making me grumpy. It is definitely geting worse. I
That's another one I've tried Carmel ,that gives me right headache,got to be certain ingredients in some that does it ,but it's finding which one,impossible task,need a chemistry degree these days,to go figure it all out.have you tried a warm cloth against the ear ,told to do that by dr for when my 2 kids were small.yes it does make you grumpy,when there's no respite.
LOL. The tramadol was useless so took a sumiptran which is helping a bit but makes me have a horrible taste in month.
Have you ever tried a cimetidine tablet?
Last year my doctor thought I had stomach ulcers and gae me them and miraculously my headaches went aqway and my head didnt feel all pressurised and my nose felt better. I did some research and it seems to me that the acid in your stomach might be coming up and getting into the head and causing problems so if you reduce the acid it cannot happen or at least not happen so much. I have been takingthem for months now. A few days ago I tried not taking them for a short time and my ear got worse and my headaches and the pressure started to come back.
Not tried them Carmel,will have a look,never know worth a try.Some say on various sites about yeast infections,being the problem or part of it.Leaky gut being another.The mind boggles trying to find out the causes.
Yes. I think in my case leaky gut or acid reflux and this would explain why taking the cimitidine stops it coming up and causing it or making it worse. Before I took them it got very bad. Since then it has only got bad when I forgot to take them or tried to manage without them. don't like to have to take them because of the long term side effects, so alson take multi vits and minerals and biotics etc to try to leswsen them. Hope you arefeeling better today Marlene.
Hi carmel,
Do your ears feel full and sounds are echoey its awful in large noisy spaces. I have a lot of pressure too.
Was interested in the acid reflux solution does it help the fullness I know I do suffer with this and it made me cough for months
Maria
Hi Maria. A couple of things. Firstly, I have never heard a doctor say they understand or believe there is a connection between stomach and head. I know I have a problemwith acid reflux now because if I don't take the medication I get those symptoms, the worst being bad headaches.
Sometimes I have a glass of orange juice and whoosh it goes up into my RIGHT ear. Then it stays there for months. This leads to the ear hurting on and off and a fullness as though full of cement. W
Hi carmel,
Thanks for replying you could be right about the orange as I have been drinking a lot of fresh orange lately.
How does it affect you do your ears feel full and sounds distorted plus pressure they are my symptoms. I have it in both ears 24/7 for 4 weeks now so am desperate.
Have the anti ulcer drugs helped it
Maria
Hi Maria. I had problems with my stomach last year where it looked as though I had an ulcer. So I took the ppis for a while to heal it. Quite by chancfe I found that my headaches ear pressure drippy nose and funnyears went away. So I did some research and found out about SILENT acid reflux and asked the doctor to let me continue to take it beca\ues it was so great to get rid of those headaches etc. And nothing else shfted them.
Twice I stpped taking the ppi for a few days and the next thing I new my ear would be all full, especialy after drinking orange juice, it goes up woosh as if it is sent up there by injection and then stays there. always the right ear.
Right now the right ear hurts and feels full of presssure
and as if it is full of cement. It has got worse over the months as this started about 3 minths ago. Lots of diferent antibiotics have made no differnce other than giving me horrible side effects from them. I find it realy hard to think straight, concentrate or get on with anything befause my right ear feels so bad constantly. I know it wont put itself right because over the three months it gradually got worse.
The left ear is fine. I have tried steaming with the nose and ear with very hot water and salt and eucalyptus, I dont think it helps because that would help with ear wax, but it makes me feel I am doing something and not just letting it do as itlikes with me. Please tell me about your problems and history with this Maria.
Hi Carmel,
Are you taking the reflux pills now and are they not helping with the ear fullness. If not that is so disappointing as I was going to try that as I am desperate. It seems to have helped you last year. Let me know
As for me I have had this in both ears for 4 weeks. No cold nothing. Just started out of nowwhere during the really hot weather I live in kent.
I am very anxious with it which is unlike me but have been using beconase steroid spray and apparently it is a side effect. I wake up feeling claustophobic and am constantly poking my ears moving my jaw to try to pop them. They will pop for a moment but not fully and then go straight back. One minute one side is worse then the next I know weird. Could be allergies but I am at a loss had my ears microsyringed as I had a lot of wax but it made nomdifference just cost me £200 as I am so desperate I saw a ent privately.
The pressure is awful and in large places I can hardly bare the noise it is ruining our lives. There are so many depressing stories out there imam terrified I am stuck like this forever. If it came and went I could cope.
Like you i cannot function as I feel locked into myself. I dont sleep as I wake up and panic.
Any advice
Marua
Hi Carmel,
Are you taking the reflux pills now and are they not helping with the ear fullness. If not that is so disappointing as I was going to try that as I am desperate. It seems to have helped you last year. Let me know
As for me I have had this in both ears for 4 weeks. No cold nothing. Just started out of nowwhere during the really hot weather I live in kent.
I am very anxious with it which is unlike me but have been using beconase steroid spray and apparently it is a side effect. I wake up feeling claustophobic and am constantly poking my ears moving my jaw to try to pop them. They will pop for a moment but not fully and then go straight back. One minute one side is worse then th
e other i know weird.
Did yours start with an infection and do you have it 24 7 and for how long you said originally you had had it on and off.
I understand your despair as I am the same
en the other I know weird.
Did yours start with an infection and have you had it constantly for years. I have
e next I know weird. Could be allergies but I am at a loss had my ears microsyring
ed as I had a lot of wax but it made no difference just cost me £200 as I am so des
perate I saw a ent privately.
The pressure is awful and in large places I can hardly bare the noise it is ruining our lives. There are so many depressing stories out there imam terrified I am stuck like this forever. If it came and went I could cope.
Like you i cannot function as I feel locked into myself. I dont sleep as I wake up and panic.
Any advice
Marua
Hi carmel,
Sorry for the garbled message hope you can make sense of it. My tablet had a fit and kept repeating things the more I tried to dslete the worst it got lol.
Is it possible to private message you
Sorry
Maria
Hi Maria. We are in the same boat, only mine has been there since about May this time. It is worth trying the proton pump inhibitors I think once the ears are fine to stop them geting that way again, but once they are full or pressured you cannot use the pp to stop it, it is too late.
It was the cimitidine, not the proton pump inhibitors that helped me, they did not help at all. I also take two multi vitamin pills each day, fibre capsules, omega 3, and an antioxidant pill each day because medication ca\n deplete our vitamins and minerals and leave us under nourished which can cause more side effects. I can hear but it is a bit muffled. have you tried the steam for thenose and ears? Have you tried an ear popper ear massager?
I tried that and it sort of helped very temporarily.
I think once the ear is full someone has to empty it and then if you do the right things it stops it being full again.
Right now I am vedry anti social, not wanting to go out or see anyone and not able to concentrate on work or relax. How are you?
Maybe it's tinnitus,that will cause ears full feeling,go read up on it Maria,I've got tinnitus,so that why I mentioned it especially if it continues,need ENT to have a look.
Hi Carmel
Once again apologies for the garbled message wish I knew how to delete it. Sorry you have had this since may. I have had it 4 weeks and i am cracking up. Could you let me know if you have had these attacks with your ears before and if they come and go as it would help to know it is not permanent. Also how long when you have had it before did it take to ease. Really would appreciate it.
I have an awful lot of trouble going into noisy environments does the sounds seem louder and unbearable to you.
Saw an ent consultant last night and he said edt tested pressure in ears which were normal and basically said there is nothing he can give me. I was so upset he was being honest but how can we live with this. My husband just thinks I have blocked ears and get on with it. How are your family with it all my life feels like its over and there are no success stories out there.
I have had no infection. How did yours start and when.
Any help makes such a difference.
Regards
Maria
Hi Maria. I am happy to chat to you on the phone if you like, I am also in the UK, but I dont do private messaging on here. My problems started years ago where I kept getting a blocked nose, then polyps in nose, headaches and ears being pressured or feeling full. Whenever it happened I was suicidal with it, could hardly move and it all hurt so much, could not do a thing. The doctor gave me antibiotics and steroids and it would clear up but then a month or two later it came back. This went on for years. The ENT guy said to have an operation to remove bits of skin and bone from the nose to help me breath, which they did and it does help me breath, but it doesnt change anything else.
I started to eat better, less sugar, less salt, more vegetables and fruit and less refined and processed foods. A lot more vitamins and minerals. and This has helped. It means when I get it it is not so bad.
Then last year I was feeling sort of ok and my stomach started to hurt a great deal constantly. The doctor said it was ulcers and put me on proton pump inhibitors with a lot of trial and error and not being able to take some because of side effects. Eventually it was decided better to take a different type of pp and took cimitidine. Quite by chance I noticed that my headaches went and my ears and nose felt much better. I nagged the doctor t o let me have them forever because even if the stomach did not get better at least the headaches had gone. So this was agreed.
I do a lot of research, I dont just listen to the doctor and follow him like a lamb to the slaughter.
Three years ago when I had been taking lots of antibiotics and steroids over and over I became so weak physically and mentally I could hardly move. YOu can imagine how bad this was as I