Recent content by smthompson89

Hi guys, I'm happy to talk about my surgery - it didn't really do too much, unfortunately! Haha. If you have any more questions, feel free to ask. Interestingly, I decided to go to a dentist who specialises in TMJ. He said I have a bad case of Bruxism, and my jaw muscles would suggest I do a...

Small update: I had the balloon dilation surgery in January, and it helped for a bit but then started to come back, and my ears felt full again. I have two types of tinnitus that come and go during the day. One is more like a whooshing sound in my left ear, and one is more of an extremely...

Hi kman7 - have a look at my posts and see if that resonates with you. I can do exactly what you've posted. Sometimes it even disappears at will.

Small update. It does seem to be getting better. *fingers crossed* I have had a cough/small chest infection this week so I had a little spike on Monday/Tuesday sadly. I can now feel the air going through my Eustachian tube when I do the valsalva manoeuvre - something I couldn't do before as...

Went to ENT today. I appear to have inflamed Eustachian Tubes. Been prescribed Flixonase - which unless I'm mistaken, has had an immediate effect. My left ear has been completely fine all day/night. Been also advised to use the Otovent balloon. We shall see!

Yeah I have an endoscopy on Tuesday, so hoping to find out. It's just weird how I can "control" it per se. I've woke up this morning, and it's almost completely gone out of my right ear (which popped up last week out of nowhere) and back to what it was like when I got off the plane. I'm hoping...

Just under a year ago, I was lying in bed and I could hear a small sound in my right ear, almost like a boiler. It started to coincide with clicking/popping every time I yawned. It got steadily worse over time, and the only time the tinnitus and the popping stopped, was when I got a cold. Like...