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Inner Ear

You're going to think I'm wierd but since my teens, if someone speaks near to my left ear, (even a radio) their voice tone creates an inner ear vibration in my right one which isn't painful but very incomfortable and I have to turn my head to my right ear so it doesn't affect it unless they are speaking on the left side. I also suffer a lot of popping in my right ear and have to sniff to correct it and quite often suffer a session of constant popping causing sound to becomelouder in my right ear, particularly exercising or blowing my nose and this too is uncomfortable. Six weeks ago I developed what felt like a rapid vibration in my right inner ear late at night (sounding like my heart was racing and pulsating in my ear but my pulse was fine) I went to bed with it and it subsided at some point because it had gone when I woke up in the night.
I have seen my GP recently who says I have some fluid in my right ear behind the drum and that I should hold my nose and blow to get rid of it but this seems to aggrovate the popping more and I don't think I should mess around in this way. I've to see him again in a month (from 18th Feb 2011) and he will refer me to hospital if no improvement for a check up but when a GP is looking at the computer screen and listening (supposedly) to you at the same time, I don't think he was getting what I was explaining about. However, the rapid vibrating occurred five times over a four/five week period but hasn't done so far now over a week.
I will be very grateful for any advice and the reason for my ear popping as well as the voice tone vibration in the ear from the sound entering the opposite ear?
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Keep us posted.
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Thank you very much so far for your advice on my inner ear condition (popping and vibration) I really feel I am being heard and will definitely ask for an ENT referral.
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Sounds like an eustachian tube problem in my opinion.  

I would ask for a referral to an ENT Specialist.  
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Most GPs know little about the ear. With your symptoms--particularly the sound in one ear setting off a vibration in the other, which might have something to do with the acoustic reflex (just a wild guess--I'm NOT an expert)--you need to see an ENT, preferably one specializing in the ear (otologist or neuro-otologist).

And don't hold your nose and blow--at least not without checking with the ENT first!

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