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vibration/buzzing in head worsens throughout day

For two months I've had a constant feeling like my head is in a vacuum.  I can't go to restaurants, be in groups of more than two people, the theater, the more noise around me the worse it gets until I'm overwhelmed and have to lie in a dead quiet room.  I also have two small lumps on the right side of my neck. The holes in the roof of my mouth are sore.  I was told by one doctor to take decongestants and did for three weeks until my nose bled with no improvement. Audiologist said no blockage and did a test that showed no fluid in my inner ear.  I can pop my right ear at will without even swallowing, the left seems dead.  I wear hearing aides and my left ear was the strong one, but for the last two months I can't even use the phone on that side.  I'm seeing another doctor today and hopefully will get referred to a specialist but two months of this is driving me crazy.  Feels like if I stuck a pin in my head it would pop like a balloon.
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By holes I mean the two holes in the roof of the mouth, I think they led to the sinuses.  Had an appt. yesterday and now am on antibiotics in case there is an infection causing the noise, having an x-ray of my sinuses, an ultrasound of the lumps in my neck.  Doc thinks the lumps could be something, and attached to my thyroid.  Set up for an ear nose and throat specialist, and put on a mild tranquilizer also to stay calm.
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I can't say this is it at all.  If fact the only connection is the Hole and Vibrations.  I have Semicircular Canal Dehiscence,  Basically a "hole" in my head that changes the accustics in the inner ear where loud sounds sets off a vibration in the skull.  Unless I'm misunderstanding your "Hole in the roof of your mouth" statement then it sounds similar to what I have, just with a hole in a completely different place.  I wonder if it is a different diagnosis but with similar symptoms(?).
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