Recent content by TheOriginalJoeM

Sorry, I have not. Based on what I know, I do not think this is an option based on what needs to be done, because they do need to get tools in there to cut it, and a simple small incision would not allow it. I do also believe (and this is of course not a medical opinion) is that the incision is...

Hi Rainfall. Yes, I did lose some hearing. The doctor tells me it is not 40%, but more like 20%. Either way, it was a real possibility that I was well aware of and 100% willing to take the risk for, even expressing that I would gladly lose my hearing over having TTP. For me, it was quite an...

So yes, because your eardrum was lifted, it is very possible that your eardrum may feel loose, precisely because they did lift it and reattach it. Do not let your doctor ever tell you what you feel. Those doctors are not worthy of holding a medical license. You are correct that because you do...

I probably had tinnitus before the surgery, but in 2004/5 during my first surgeries, I had no additional tinnitus after I healed from the surgery. Post-op, you will hear lots of distressing sounds (e.g.: pops, etc., which are normal healing sounds). Of course with any surgery, there may be...

At first it was a mental thing... I was conditioned to believe I couldn't be at any loud places because the tendons serve as natural sound protection (and they do) so I believed I could not tolerate aces like that...but over time I realized it wasn't true and a lot of it was in my head. No I...

I likely have TMJ too but I've heard there isnt much one can do about it. I clench my jaw and it is always painful and I believe stress is the major factor and I agree that it somehow related to the trigeminal nerve.

Hey Sean. Sorry that are experiencing this. I know how you feel. I am isolated from my wife and kids because talking (to anyone) makes my ear click, so I sit in my own house like I don't exist. I understand the "good ear" thing. My right ear was my good ear and really didn't have all too much...

Yes, current state is preferable, but it's like being in the first level of hell vs Hitler's level. So there's that. What I experience right now is a click when I speak, so if I don't speak, I don't get the click, unless... I move my head in a particular way, I also get the click in the ear. I...

Thank you. I looked up Dr. Poe and started going through related links and came across this one on ETD: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/coa.12475 Great article on ETD, and not so over-the-top medical that lay people cannot understand. Have you looked into or heard of inner-ear...

Let me guess. You are angry that there is "something" that feels like it is "inside" your head, and you cannot get it out. Nothing seems to make it better and it keeps getting worse. You are probably angry that such a seemingly small thing could cause such great distress. You wish people could...

Yes, debilitating. Absolutely no question. This click is different from the spasms. When I went in this year, pre-surgery, I had a gut feeling something wasn't the same, and there was a possibility that the tendon wasn't the culprit. Yes, the TT did regrow, but it was not causing the clicks...

Yeah, sorry, with so many surgeries, it is confusing. I had three surgeries in 2005. The first surgery was in my left ear. ENT went through the ear canal by lifting up the eardrum (not invasive), and cut the stapes tendon. Later in the year, after I recovered, he went back to cut the tensor...

I am outside Chicago, so I'm near a lot of good hospitals, just need to travel into the city. I see the specialist Monday and I just made another appointment with my current ENT (who has done the last two surgeries for me) to do a myringotomy on Wednesday, should Monday's appt. turn up nothing...

Thanks for the cautions on this. When I do the valsalva maneuver I do get temporary patulous eustachian tube. It is unpleasant. But then within 3-15 seconds (typically, although a few times it has lasted for several minutes), it goes back to feeling clogged and pressurized. To be clear, was the...

No pain in my face, nor migraines, neither before or after surgery. All surgeries up until this last one, I really had almost no side-effects. Literally. After the 4-6 weeks of healing, I would have never known I had surgery. But this last one left me with what I believe to be some hearing loss...