Have Had Tinnitus for a Long Time But Now It's Worse

I have had tinnitus for as long as I can remember. I havent noticed it unless I get in a quite room. I am not sure what caused it. When I was a kid I listen to my music very loud.

Thats where I am guessing it has come from.

A week ago a I got these weird painful shocks around my right ear that only lasted for a few second. it happen periodically throughout that day and then went away. I went to an Urgent treatment center and they said it could be nerve issues or TMJ.

Later that night I became dizzy and the normal tinnitus become much louder and I could hear everywhere I went. So the dizziness and tinnitus has been non stop.

I am not so dizzy that I can walk but just a little to feel out of wack or kind of spaced out.

I get fullness in both ears, more so on the left. Also the tinnitus is more profound in the left ear. I also have been getting some pain in both ears that comes and goes. kind of a stabbing pain.

Also it feels like I need to clear my ears all the time. I have an appt with an ENT friday.

I have read it could be anything from TMJ to a benign tumor or it can be something that they cant fix. I am more worried it will be something they cant fix

 

My ENT thinks I have Ménière's disease, which has pretty much all of your symptoms. I'd suggest looking into that to start. It seems like the more I research online, the more possible diagnoses I find

 

thanks much appreciated

 

toddfw2003 , you don't say whether you have deafness, which is part of the trio of symptoms of Meniere's (tinnitus, deafness, vertigo) and the fullness in the ear, pains and increased tinnitus may indicate nothing more than ear infection. Meniere's it may be, but there are other things it could be.

I have deafness, tinnitus and vertigo, I don't have Meniere's. My deafness and tinnitus were caused by a virus which damaged the Eustachian tubes and cochleas and I had Benign Positional vertigo which antedated the other two symptoms by at least 7 years.

Dizziness and vertigo are very different. In true vertigo objects in the environment appear to rotate or you feel that you yourself are rotating (usually associated with profound nausea of the 'travel sickness' type). Dizziness is a much 'softer' symptom.

You may have Meniere's, but the symptoms of that disorder aren't constant, meaning you'll live with it and cope with it eventually.

As Karen says a lot of early symptoms of any of these ear problems eventually diminish or disappear altogether.

Good luck with the ENT.

Fungus.