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Not sure what happened to you but during weightlifting and many other strenuous activities, more cerebrospinal fluid goes from your spinal area to the area around your brain and puts more explosive pressure on your inner ear. Whatever happened, avoid all kinds of Valsalva maneuvers for some...

Is the drone/low hum/vibration you are feeling these days (I am assuming you feel it more than hear it) pulsing or not? If not, especially if not in sync with your heartbeat, I don't think it's pulsatile tinnitus. Is it pulsing in any way or is it vibrating in the same way if you sit and do...

Bilateral perilymph fistula all of a sudden would be rare, but if someone has it in one ear it is not uncommon for the symptoms to spread to the other ear within months. And your ear issues started in RIGHT ear, not bilaterally. So it is not excluded. Yes, orthostatic headache is definitely a...

Did you ever go to a perilymph fistula specialist to rule out a perilymph fistula?

What happened to your ears when you had reflux?

People with severe perilymph fistula can't remember or enjoy a lot of things either, but it's curable, especially at the beginning, and it has nothing to do with your brain. It just disturbs your peripheral vestibular system (inner ear) so the central (brain) has to try harder to compensate. So...

Pete, did your digestion issues stop?

By finding a hobby that does not involve abdominal valsava maneuver/increasing abdominal pressure/ increasing intracranial pressure, and letting your ears heal as much as possible.

When you had an ear infection before, was the tinnitus in your right ear or not? And did you get any hearing loss when you had the ear infection? And about the flight, did you feel any vestibular symptoms like disorientation, fatigue/headache, nausea after you landed?

Nico, would you try pranotherapy?

From what I have googled there is Ellen, a certified practitioner level 3, trained by Hochstatter. You can Google her, she's in your city.

Honestly, if it's been a while, and if you are not dizzy, if I were you I would just do the internet research in order to understand what to avoid. The doctors that know about PLF are rare, usually Neurotologists (but if they are not already known for PLF online I wouldn't bother) but they...

Is there any way you would try any alternative therapy? That has nothing to do with the actual Western medicine? Like bioenergy/pranotherapy? You have nothing to lose. People improve sometimes and it can't make you worse.

Bro, before this goes any further I'm going to have to correct you. By the way, was it one of those "clear MRI/CT means no PLF" ENTs? Depending on the surgeon, the person and the symptoms, the person might get away without any additional issues and improve the pre existing, but if additional...

As the website you linked to a while ago says, if the PLF is suspected after an implosive or explosive trauma, the surgery is not recommended for anyone unless their vestibular symptoms are unbearable, unless they have progressive hearing loss, or unless their Tulio is so bad they fall from...