Middle-Ear Trauma: Treat It Like a Broken Jaw?

[Proteo]

Has anyone else tried this?

After a prolonged process of elimination, I have come to consider chewing as being a primary suspect for the continuation of this hellish bellish jingle. So I started reducing the chewing to a minimum.

It's been about 2 weeks now, and after months of it being a m***er f***ing problem, the pulsatile tinnitus has finally died down considerably.

 

[Proteo]

Is this pulsatile tinnitus actually a pain response, being interpreted within the middle-ear as a sound signal? There are reports of how analgesia of the superior cervical ganglia can be effective against pulsatile tinnitus, that would support this idea.

If that is the case, perhaps we should be happy to be experiencing that pain as sound instead. But pain is an important sensor for letting us know we shouldn't be moving the affected part of the body; sound doesn't have the same imperative.

Just like a cut in the arm won't heal if we keep rubbing it, if there are scars in the inner-ear which are small enough to escape detection in MRI or CT scans but are significant enough to cause "pain", they might also be significant enough that if kept moving around, they will never fully heal.

 

[Proteo]

... if there are scars in the inner-ear ...

or in the middle-ear, or maybe both.

 

[nuno1976]

Hi my friend,

How do you reduce chewing to a minimum ?
Are you on a soft diet ?

 

[nuno1976]

One more thing , can you try to stretch the skin around the ear like I do on this video :
?

When I do it I ear a strange sound . Like If I am stretching my eardrum.
Is strange and does not happen in my left ear.
It is also something that came after the surgery.

Thanks!

 

[Proteo]

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).

 

[Proteo]

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.

 

[Benjaminbb]

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.

Did the soft diet work in the end? I assume you only had pulsatile tinnitus?