I have recently been to an ENT, taken an audio test, and he said there's nothing that can be done about the feeling of fullness in my ear and reaction I have to high noises.
The fullness feeling hasn't gone away for a few years and it gets worse with long periods of high pitched sounds, such as taking a shower, running the sink water, etc. I have been using ear-buds while doing these because if I dont, then for the whole day I will be holding my ear as if It's a gunshot wound because it feels so full. However my ear still feels full like theres something deep inside it without doing anything, just not exacerbated. I don't really hear normal tinnitus in my ears, no more than the usual few second one that comes like once a day, but is it possible that I do have a really high tinnitus but it is so high pitched that I just can't hear it yet and its non stop and thats whats causing the fullness?
Or is it more like a damaged ear bone?
The tests showed no fluid, and my hearing is just as good as when I took it a few years ago. So just to make me feel better the ENT scheduled me to take a CT scan of my ear but I know theres alot of radiation to the head for that, and he said an MRI wouldn't show anything. I had an MRI a few years ago that showed no acoustic neuroma's etc, but what he's looking for with a CT I'm not sure is even related, or the real cause is necessarily visible, could be something non related and I shouldn't even expose myself for no reason if he's just going to say it looks fine?
I'm turning 30 and this makes me feel like my life is just downhill from here and I'm breaking down. Even when watching TV or playing video games whenever there is high pitched noise like a gold "cha ching" sound my problematic left ear kind of has a "vibrational resonence" feeling. With the sink as soon as I shut it off its like an echo of extra full-ness and high pitch fade out. What is the most likely cause for something like this? TMJ ? Not enough supplements? Gluten & Sugar? The weird thing is it only happens with my left ear..
The fullness feeling hasn't gone away for a few years and it gets worse with long periods of high pitched sounds, such as taking a shower, running the sink water, etc. I have been using ear-buds while doing these because if I dont, then for the whole day I will be holding my ear as if It's a gunshot wound because it feels so full. However my ear still feels full like theres something deep inside it without doing anything, just not exacerbated. I don't really hear normal tinnitus in my ears, no more than the usual few second one that comes like once a day, but is it possible that I do have a really high tinnitus but it is so high pitched that I just can't hear it yet and its non stop and thats whats causing the fullness?
Or is it more like a damaged ear bone?
The tests showed no fluid, and my hearing is just as good as when I took it a few years ago. So just to make me feel better the ENT scheduled me to take a CT scan of my ear but I know theres alot of radiation to the head for that, and he said an MRI wouldn't show anything. I had an MRI a few years ago that showed no acoustic neuroma's etc, but what he's looking for with a CT I'm not sure is even related, or the real cause is necessarily visible, could be something non related and I shouldn't even expose myself for no reason if he's just going to say it looks fine?
I'm turning 30 and this makes me feel like my life is just downhill from here and I'm breaking down. Even when watching TV or playing video games whenever there is high pitched noise like a gold "cha ching" sound my problematic left ear kind of has a "vibrational resonence" feeling. With the sink as soon as I shut it off its like an echo of extra full-ness and high pitch fade out. What is the most likely cause for something like this? TMJ ? Not enough supplements? Gluten & Sugar? The weird thing is it only happens with my left ear..
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