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Consider having a cerebral angiography done like this guy, and greatly reducing you chewing.

Consider cerebral angiography, and maybe reduce your chewing to a minimum for a while.

I reduced my chewing to a minimum, and the PT went way down after a few weeks. I am also avoiding strenuous exercises. MRI and CT scan found nothing, but I haven't tried a cerebral angiogram yet!

Cerebral angiogram, noted! Heidi (and anyone else with similar symptoms), does it help if you reduce your chewing to a minimum? I did that for a few weeks, and the PT actually diminished tremendously.

Hi Sarah, I think it is pretty important, yes! I don't know if you are still visiting this site, but if the pain you felt came from damage caused by intense pressure inside the ear, then maybe not chewing for a few weeks will help you the same way it did for me.

Hiya, in your other post you mention spring-time allergies, how bad were they this time around? Did they cause any pain?

Does anyone know of hearing protection for the bony area between the ear and the neck? A significant amount of the ambient sounds actually gets in through there.

So I will not try to stretch the skin like you do ;) Maybe you should let the whole area rest too. If it is something which came after surgery, physical trauma seems to be the obvious culprit.

Hi Nuno, aye I've switched to a rather soft diet; I take whey powder in the morning (I recommend Mercola's brand, no digestion problem). But I still chew with the incisives; basically I am avoiding anything that ends up bending the middle/inner-ear (including twisting my neck).

There is a paper about this treatment: http://www.tinnitusjournal.com/articles/cervical-trauma-and-tinnitus.pdf

Earplugs won't be enough as sounds also come in through the bony area between the ear and the neck. Does anyone know of hearing protection which adresses that?

Do you remember having a moment of intense pressure inside the ear? That's what I had, no doubt the main cause of the subsequent TD.

Hi, I read the post where you mention the exotosis removal surgery you had. Here's my hypothesis: you have a series of scars too small to show up in scans, which are generating what would normally be pain signals, but because the inner-ear is the recipient of these signals somehow, they are...

I know this is an old thread, but have you studied the relationship between these spikes and having eaten foods high in salicylate?

or in the middle-ear, or maybe both.