I'm actually stunned this has worked. All my issues began after a short haul flight to Berlin in 2011. As we touched down, my sinuses suddenly swelled with the pressure and the pain was off the scale. I burst into tears and held my face because my sinuses became completely inflamed suddenly and painfully. I assumed it was because I had a blocked nose.
My hearing has never been normal since then, I've always had slightly muffled hearing which I thought came from noise damage from listening to music.
My tinnitus started in my left ear after a series of ear infections and sinus infections at the beginning of 2022. Never had tinnitus before this and never had an ear infection before this either. So this was all very new to me.
I saw 3 GPs and 3 ENTs. All told me it was a mystery why I still had humming and hissing after the MRI scan came back completely clear.
I tried everything. Multiple antibiotics, various different steroid sprays and drops, oral steroids, antihistamines, vitamin A, milk thistle, magnesium, garlic, ginger, everything. Nothing worked.
One quack ENT told me immediately upon me entering the room that I have nerve damage in my ears and that I need powerful hearing aids so booked me an appointment to have hearing aids fitted.
I was waking up every single day with congestion and a hum noise in my left ear. Then one day randomly while in a store, my Eustachian tube spontaneously opened up by itself and it was like someone turned the volume up 90% on the world. I literally could hear people talking about 60 feet away from me clearly after years of muffled hearing. Then it closed again. This blew my mind.
I then used an EarPopper device to confirm this and yep - my tubes opened up all the way, my hearing improved and the tinnitus entirely disappeared for the first time in months. The second I took it away from my nose - the hissing and humming slowly resumed and I felt my ear swell back up. I definitely have extremely swollen Eustachian tubes. But the question was why? Why aren't they going back to normal? The steroid sprays made them worse, not better.
I had a blood test taken by my GP for antibodies and an allergy test taken. No gluten intolerance. No gluten allergy. GP again said it's a total mystery and shrugged me out the door.
Yet I started to notice a trend. Every time I had a bowl of wheat cereal before bed or some biscuits, I'd wake up the next day to a clogged nose and ringing in my ears. So I went entirely gluten free. 24 hours in and the hissing and humming has literally almost gone. The congestion is gone. My hearing has improved. I can breathe better. There is definitely an inflammatory link between our sinuses and gluten that absolutely needs to be studied more.
When you eat processed gluten, your colon/bowels expand to process it because it's so heavy going on your gut. I've read that the same can happen with your sinuses (they expand and swell as your blood pressure rises to break down the gluten in your gut and thus - you can have symptoms of sinusitis).
Vitamin A and powerful antihistamines also helped me (Benadryl 24 Hour) massively, as well as B12 and a daily B complex vitamin. I'm still testing magnesium currently. But I'm realizing I've basically been hard of hearing - for over 10 years - because of eating gluten. Which is crazy to me. Yet cutting it out my diet has worked wonders for my sinuses and that pressure feeling behind my eardrum.
I hope this helps someone who could be facing the same issues. I'm going totally gluten free now indefinitely and will make another update post in a week.
My hearing has never been normal since then, I've always had slightly muffled hearing which I thought came from noise damage from listening to music.
My tinnitus started in my left ear after a series of ear infections and sinus infections at the beginning of 2022. Never had tinnitus before this and never had an ear infection before this either. So this was all very new to me.
I saw 3 GPs and 3 ENTs. All told me it was a mystery why I still had humming and hissing after the MRI scan came back completely clear.
I tried everything. Multiple antibiotics, various different steroid sprays and drops, oral steroids, antihistamines, vitamin A, milk thistle, magnesium, garlic, ginger, everything. Nothing worked.
One quack ENT told me immediately upon me entering the room that I have nerve damage in my ears and that I need powerful hearing aids so booked me an appointment to have hearing aids fitted.
I was waking up every single day with congestion and a hum noise in my left ear. Then one day randomly while in a store, my Eustachian tube spontaneously opened up by itself and it was like someone turned the volume up 90% on the world. I literally could hear people talking about 60 feet away from me clearly after years of muffled hearing. Then it closed again. This blew my mind.
I then used an EarPopper device to confirm this and yep - my tubes opened up all the way, my hearing improved and the tinnitus entirely disappeared for the first time in months. The second I took it away from my nose - the hissing and humming slowly resumed and I felt my ear swell back up. I definitely have extremely swollen Eustachian tubes. But the question was why? Why aren't they going back to normal? The steroid sprays made them worse, not better.
I had a blood test taken by my GP for antibodies and an allergy test taken. No gluten intolerance. No gluten allergy. GP again said it's a total mystery and shrugged me out the door.
Yet I started to notice a trend. Every time I had a bowl of wheat cereal before bed or some biscuits, I'd wake up the next day to a clogged nose and ringing in my ears. So I went entirely gluten free. 24 hours in and the hissing and humming has literally almost gone. The congestion is gone. My hearing has improved. I can breathe better. There is definitely an inflammatory link between our sinuses and gluten that absolutely needs to be studied more.
When you eat processed gluten, your colon/bowels expand to process it because it's so heavy going on your gut. I've read that the same can happen with your sinuses (they expand and swell as your blood pressure rises to break down the gluten in your gut and thus - you can have symptoms of sinusitis).
Vitamin A and powerful antihistamines also helped me (Benadryl 24 Hour) massively, as well as B12 and a daily B complex vitamin. I'm still testing magnesium currently. But I'm realizing I've basically been hard of hearing - for over 10 years - because of eating gluten. Which is crazy to me. Yet cutting it out my diet has worked wonders for my sinuses and that pressure feeling behind my eardrum.
I hope this helps someone who could be facing the same issues. I'm going totally gluten free now indefinitely and will make another update post in a week.
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