Eustachian Tube Dysfunction w/ear fullness and voice resonanating in head

[lgfl]

For the past few years, I have been experiencing a feeling of fullness in my right ear and I hear my voice resonating in the right side of my head - sometimes the resonation caused my head to vibrate enough that my vision is slightly blurred by the vibration as I speak.  Audiograms are fine, and I have no other pathology going on in the ear.  I have been told by one ENT that it is due to a problem with my jaw - I have a congenital deformation of the jaw: my right jaw line is higher than the left, and in addition, I grind my teeth (plus I tend to eat always on the right side since the lower teeth meet the upper teeth better on that side.  This physician felt that it was the pressure in the TMJ joint that was causing my symptoms.  I have occasional pain in the right TMJ joint, but rarely and mild.  I wear a mouth guard at night for the teeth grinding.  I did a few months of PT to relax the TMJ joint, but while this certainly can't hurt, it didn't seem to help, either. MRI showed a little arthritis on the condyle of the mandible, but nothing worrisome.

I'm now getting positional vertigo which I think is coming also from the right ear - this may or may not be related.  I have read about Eustacian Tube Dysfunction.  My question is: do you all agree that my symptoms sound like they're coming from the jaw problem?  Is there any effective treatment for this?  And could it eventually lead to more serious problems, both for the ear and the jaw? (at the moment, I have no treatment other than the mouth guard).  Thank you!

[Amankind]

Hi I had a rhinoplasty 6 years ago post that my nasal congestion started due to which I had a revesion septoplasty in 2016 . Now I am suffering very high tinnitus ,ear fullness continuously cracklings of ear ,my vision is vibrating with the speed of tinnitus ,burning sensation on head and face frustrated what is happened to me

Doctors have done impedance audiometer number of times but still getting normal curve and done with mri of brain and it is normal

Anyone having answer for it

[Amankind]

Hi I had a rhinoplasty 6 years ago post that my nasal congestion started due to which I had a revesion septoplasty in 2016 . Now I am suffering very high tinnitus ,ear fullness continuously cracklings of ear ,my vision is vibrating with the speed of tinnitus ,burning sensation on head and face frustrated what is happened to me

Doctors have done impedance audiometer number of times but still getting normal curve and done with mri of brain and it is normal

Anyone having answer for it

[kate314]

thank you for your comments and solutions.  i suffered hearing loss last year in one ear.  an mri found nothing wrong, although i have dizziness, nausea fullness and the wierdest vibration going on that i have ever heard.  if i run water i become the water, the whole sound vibrates through my ear.  same with any loud noise.  the doc told me that it was from a virus but was perplexed because he said that the virus usually takes both ears.  i am lucky.  still, it's difficult for me.  whenever someone talks loudly in my bad ear i reverberate like a percussion instrument.  thanks for the tip.  god speed to your husband.
kate

[Rox H]

My husband suffered from sound and pressure evoked dizziness, vertigo, imbalance, tinnutis (sp??), hearing his voice, heartbeat, eye movements, conductive hearing loss & nausea for over 20 years. We finally found Dr. Carey at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore who diagnosed him with superior canal dehisence, a rather recently discovered condition and was able to cure him. It required inner-cranial surgery, but only 1 week after later his is well on his way to being cured. Dr. Carey performed the same tests that has been done repeatedly, but he knows what he is looking for!  Not only is he the greatest doctor we ever met, he is one of the kindest also. I am not a health professional, I just want to tell everyone who may have this condition about our experiences. http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/otolaryngology/carey.html

[gbname]

I can't believe how similar my symptoms sound to yours.  Have you heard anything or ever gotten a better assessment of what's wrong.  So far, I am still in the "everything looks fine" stage, even though they are far from fine.  Symptoms:  ear fullness (especially in right ear), some loss of hearing at high frequencies in right ear, resonance when I speak (no sense of side, though), and even a sense of vibration or dizziness when there are very loud noises - like in a gym with people cheering a team on.