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There was way too much to list in the title so I hope someone will find this post.  I am 25 years old and have had a crackling sound in my ears every time I swallow for over a year.  Along with that I feel dizzy (not vertigo), and just a general sense of being spaced out (feeling dumb), my memory is not good, and I have a hard time concentrating.  I had a mri doen last december and it said that I have chronic sinusitis.  Have been to a ENT but he was late for his trip to the himalayas so he walked in took two minutes of my time (after I waited for almost 3 hours) and said "it will go away sometime."  He did not even mention my deviated septum (I have broken my nose like 3 times) or my sinuses.  Can sinus problems really cause you to feel like an idiot?  I feel that my cognition is declined a lot over the past year.  I have noticed that if I rub my neck where my ear and neck join, my ears feel better.  I forgot to mention that I lifted weights for many years and have messed up my shoulder and possibly my neck.  Could a nerve problem cause the same symptoms?  Someone please help.  This is the most frustrating thing that I have ever had to deal with and is making me miserable.  Does anyone know the cost of exploratory ear surgery?  ANYONE???

[jk01]

Have been taking nasaqort and singulair and has been helping with the crackling noise but I still feel hung over or like I am high or something.  Does anyone else have this problem?

[jk01]

ANYONE????  Does anyone else suffer from this?  Come on folks I know someone else has to know what this is!

[ThomD]

Yeah dude i know exactly what you mean. For something like 4 months now i've been having terrible sinus problems which was diagnosed as chronic sinusitus by a CT. My head feels foggy all the time and i can't concentrate on anything. I'm in high school still and i missed a lot of days because of my headaches and I'm having the hardest time making up the work, I can't get anything done at all. Lately i've just been feeling more out of it and feeling really anxious because i dont like feeling out of it all the time. I'm seeing an ENT in a few days. It looks like your comment was from august had any luck since then?

[jk01]

Acutually I feel a lot better.  I have gone to physical therapy because the doctors thought that I might have messed up a few nerves in my neck that actually run behind the ear.  I think this helped a lot.  Plus I am getting a lot more sleep and on antidepressants (I know that this was not the major issue but it has helped).  I would check into the anxiety thing as it can cause a lot, and I mean a lot of problems.  Plus make sure that you are sleeping well.  I know that you wish that someone would post a physical solution to some of your symptoms but this is the best I can do.  To me the brain fog thing was and sometimes still is the worst part of it.  You just want to be back to "normal".  But once again I say maybe try an antianxiety or antidepressant.  I wish you the best of luck and just know that there are other people out there who are suffering with you.