Clicky Ear Query

[Eve]

Though Sqad's expertise might help with this one

I get clicky/popping ears with tinnitus with menieres but I've noticed that my ears click when I move my head (side to side and up and down) in connection with the movement (which I need to stop doing now to test it as annoying myself!). Is that typical of tinnitus generally or culd it be also connected to having a clicky jaw or even tight neck muscles ( something my physio mentioned the other day in connection with headaches and such as my muscles generally get really tight and neck and upper back currently really bad and, when googling, stuff to do with necks came up). They click generally anyway, without movement, but calming down any of it would be great.

Am interested in case there is something I can do to help calm it down rather than just putting up with it and blaming it all on the menieres.

[Sqad]

Great question...........sqad MIGHT help....there again........??

First things first.....it has nothing to do with your Menieres problem....nothing at all. There may be many causes, none of them being serious in nature and the commonest would be a myoclonic spasm of the tensor tympani muscle in the middle ear.....no treatment and should not cause further problems.

However you have rheumatoid arthritis and this can affect the joints of the three little bones in the ear...unusual, but it does happen and once again little can be done to relieve the problem.

Interesting.

[Eve]

Thanks Sqad. Noooo, hope it's not the arthritis :(

I looked in on my phone earlier on and saw your reply and asked my Dr earlier if she would look in my ears for me to check them due to the problems. She said one looks fine and nice and clean but there is debris in the other down by the eardrum and she can't see it properly because of that. I remembered something ucky looking coming out of that ear a couple of weeks ago, looked like dry skin build up or something like that so maybe it was only part of whatever is lurking in there.

She suggested trying olive oil so got some from the chemist when picking up my steroids and pregabalin and going to try it in a bit! Hoping if there is some kind of blockage (might explain some fluttery feelings - I thought maybe it was a cold coming on and my ears trying to clear ucky stuff), it'll shift it and it might then explain why the betahistines just made me hear lopsided so they might help more with the hearing loss, fingers crossed! Will keep an eye on the clicking related to movement.

Am looking forward to seeing if the pregabalin makes a difference and booked in for my pnumococcus vaccination on Thursday for going on methotrexate so lots happening!

[Eve]

Oooh that was strangely quite relaxing! I was expecting grossness haha, thought it'd be horrible like the menieres tests when they shove water in your ear!

Does it just kind of shift itself once you've done the oil thing?

[Eve]

Still don't think it's unblocked, can I keep trying it and will it just shift itself if anyone knows?

Oh, started on the Pregabalin last night and spent the morning feeling rather drunk but not in much pain :) I seem to want to keep walking around a lot though that can't be bad with the steroid munchies!

[Sqad]

Jenna...why not try the Valsalva technique.....nip your nose tightly and blow down your nose, that will force air down the Eustachian tube. do that every four hours or so.

[Eve]

Will do :) It's annoying me more now I know something is in there...the evil power of the mind...arghhh...

Thanks for the advice, much appreciated as always.