I'm not on any medication aside from trying the Prednisone pack. I'm going to an ENT to get checked out soon. Right now i'm in the same boat, trying to just get by without any additional medication, but we'll see. Are you able to sleep ok? The high pitch is making it hard for me.
So i've never had the balloon dilation, but they say it helps 80% ETD people. I'm taking a prednisone pack and it's just ramping up my anxiety instead. I've never heard of poking a hole in the ETD, that's interesting, I wonder if that works. I can understand hesitancy doing it though.
I also...
I've heard it's backwards, that acid reflux (i suffer from this also) that it messes with your ETD and supposedly makes it worse. By the way, did you have the eustachian balloon dilation done?