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pulsations in ear when typing
Hi,
I have this strange symptom which is quite annoying: I have strong pulsation in my right ear whenever I am typing. I am typing a lot so this affects my life. Any suggestions, please? I had antibiotics twice but it did not help.
LM
I have this strange symptom which is quite annoying: I have strong pulsation in my right ear whenever I am typing. I am typing a lot so this affects my life. Any suggestions, please? I had antibiotics twice but it did not help.
LM
Hi lari_I!
I came across your post trying to find a cure for myself. My right ear would make noises in rhythm with other external noises. Like in your instance, if I'm typing, the ear would be producing noises imitating the rhythm of typing. This can also happen with other noises. Like I'd be holding my phone to my left ear - and the right ear would be crackling synchronously with my friend's voice on the phone.
The noises that my right ear would react to are unpredictable. Sometimes the typing or the phone would cause no reaction. And sometimes they would. Sometimes the ear would just react to a certain person's speech while being unresponsive to another person.
The noise that the ear would produce would best be compared to a sail of a ship being moved around by the wind.
The doctors have not provided an explanation. They seem to either discard it, or say "you have hypersensitive ears", or prescribe zinc and lipoflavinoids, or anti-congestant. Nothing helps.
Also, for the last 15 years I've noticed that the hearing in the ear that makes the noise has been apparently less acute than the other ear, though both ears pass all hearing tests equally fine. But the quality of hearing is subjectively worse in that ear to me: everything seems to be more muffled.
Also, I have ringing in my ears that I take notice of only when I lay down in bed when going to sleep.
Let's try to figure this out!
I came across your post trying to find a cure for myself. My right ear would make noises in rhythm with other external noises. Like in your instance, if I'm typing, the ear would be producing noises imitating the rhythm of typing. This can also happen with other noises. Like I'd be holding my phone to my left ear - and the right ear would be crackling synchronously with my friend's voice on the phone.
The noises that my right ear would react to are unpredictable. Sometimes the typing or the phone would cause no reaction. And sometimes they would. Sometimes the ear would just react to a certain person's speech while being unresponsive to another person.
The noise that the ear would produce would best be compared to a sail of a ship being moved around by the wind.
The doctors have not provided an explanation. They seem to either discard it, or say "you have hypersensitive ears", or prescribe zinc and lipoflavinoids, or anti-congestant. Nothing helps.
Also, for the last 15 years I've noticed that the hearing in the ear that makes the noise has been apparently less acute than the other ear, though both ears pass all hearing tests equally fine. But the quality of hearing is subjectively worse in that ear to me: everything seems to be more muffled.
Also, I have ringing in my ears that I take notice of only when I lay down in bed when going to sleep.
Let's try to figure this out!
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