Does Anybody Get a New Tone When Their Ear Pops?

You sure that's your ear popping? It's not a muscle contraction in your middle ear?

I cannot totally relate to that in regards to pain, vertigo or volume, but I have an equally disturbing condition. When I lay down at night to sleep, whenever I swallow I hear a sharp click in my left ear. I can predict when the click will come on with scary accuracy. Each time, it's almost exactly 5 seconds after I swallow. It is disturbingly fascinating.

I do get the clicks during daytime and normal activity as well, but then it's not provoked by swallowing and comes on spontaneously or at random in other words. That's why I suspect you might have something similar going on. Ears (Eustachian tubes) don't pop at random as far as I know. I think some form of myoclonus can have that effect, but I may be wrong. There is palatal myoclonus, and then there is another type that affects the Eustachian tube... I think.

One ear or both ears affected? Seen a doctor about this? Done any tests?

 

Ears popping is also related to the middle ear, because that's where we find the Eustachian tube that equalizes the pressure, effectively causing the pop sound. But I suspect in this case it may be related to one of the muscles in the middle ear, not the Eustachian tube.

Interesting how it only happens in the ear opposite to your bad ear. But I can't say I'm surprised. My clicks started out in the left ear, which is my bad ear. After a few months, the right ear got recruited and it too began to click, although not as prominently as the left ear or as frequently. This is equally puzzling.

I don't know about you, but at least in my case this all comes down to overactive nervous system as a result of damage to the ear.

Just a few minutes earlier, I was replying on this thread:
https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/new-university-of-michigan-tinnitus-discovery-—-signal-timing.2805/page-28#post-341418

This paragraph in the linked article especially resonated with me.

Thus, my brain is triggering the acoustic reflex even when no loud noise is present. My tinnitus and hyperacusis is most definitely caused by a very loud noise.

My advice to you would be to see an ENT doctor, do all the tests necessary. You can discuss this in more detail with the doctor.

Regarding ear drum rupture, those should heal in less than three months. That is if you have a rapture at all. It wasn't clear to the doctors if you have a rupture or not. That doesn't seem very professional to me, a doctor should be able to tell. Maybe you only saw a GP, but that still counts as doctor. You may get an antibiotic to keep the ear clear of infections when you see the ENT, but you usually don't need to do anything, it heals on its own.