What you describe is normal and sounds like eustachian tube inflammation.
@Engineer LA
Just wanted to add that I have had NO camera up nose nor inspection of tympan what ever it is called......only a hearng test up to 8khz which ent guy said is normal for my age (and i did it in french to recognise words at a whisper but problem is that some of the words i did not know so had to guess at them).
I have felt the problem is with pressure since it began.
Sometimes (only sometimes but then i am very careful with what noise i expose my ear to and i live in a practically very silent area with only the far off noise maybe of a tractor and a few birds singing) my ear drum in the only affected ear (right) vibrates when i hear a sound close to me. So far bass sounds of a mans voice close to me makes my eardrum vibrate.
Few months back I was given prednisolone by a doctor (not my regular doctor). This did indeed reduce the T to practically a whisper. However I was only on it for 2 days and it took effect after 2 days. Then I stopped and it came back. He told me to take it again which i did and it again reduced it. Again i stopped. It came back. I went back on it again and it reduced it again on the 3rd day. On each of these occasions I was on the steroid for only 3 days max. Then he told me to taper it down and it came back.
How is it possible that if it was noise caused, that the steroid would work so consistently but at 60mg per day taken once a day. And i wasnt particularly exposed to noise. Only lots of stress including emotional and physical fear stress AND moving house.
I hated taking the steroid as it made me feel physically quite uncomfortable with myself and stopped me sleeping. I did feel better when off the drug.
ENT absolutely useless here. One ENT told me that I had brain fatigue - what the hell is that?
So as a child I used to get lots of earaches in this right ear. No problems all my adult life. However, I wonder if it is inflamed. The doctor who game me the steroids (and is a little more knowledgeable and works in a big city of Bordeaux than the country bumpkin doctors around here who cant practice anywhere else) told me that he thinks there is inflammation there. He is just a regular doctor so no ENT but that is why he gave me prednisolone. When the predinisolone worked, he became convinced that inflammation is the reason. Whenever I have had a cold or anything like that in the past, the gland behind my right ear always swelled up and my ear hurt. I was told that this is because of the mulititude of earaches and infections that I had in that ear when I was a kid left the ear vulnerable - so when there was the slightest infection then the gland would swell up to protect any dirt or infection getting into the ear (always the right ear which is the ear which rings).
Anyhow wonder if you think that any of this points to an inflammatory problem there plus with what i told you about the ear pressure and the squeaky noise when blowing to clear it. I have quoted what i wrote to you earlier below as you may not recall it.
Plus do you think that I should get the agar 35 and the bimalah?
If you do think that it sounds suspicously like inflammation, then what can i do about it? What can I say to an ent to get something done to look at it or can i deal with it myself?
Here is what i wrote to you earlier on:
How do you know that you had a problem with the E tube? Was it diagnosed?
The only reason that I ask is that I seem to have a problem with pressure in the affected ear.
When i pinch my nose and blow, the affected ear only reacts and i get a squealy noise as the pressure changes.
Is this normal?
never had it before
When I suggested a problem with pressure (in french) to the arrogant ENT doc here, he just sort of laughed and was utterly ininterested in talking to at or with me about it. So I left the hospital but still have the same problem months later......wonder if there is aomething with pressure going on here.
By the way, do you think that the agar 35 will help me - also i am not sleeping more than 4 hours for months
If yes, do i need the bimalah as well?
i really have no one to turn to for medical help or advice round here and cant even get decent non harmful sleeping tablets from the local doctor. Although i explained to her that i was not sleeping more than 4 hours a night, she gave me pills instead that are for anti anxiety and have as a contra effect - yes you guessed it Tinnitus. So i have not taken them.
thanks ever so much for all your help....and your time....greatly appreciated!