I have either ringing or buzzing it goes back and forth
Not really how I would describe it. Perhaps. I described it to my wife last night as just a really sharp aching pain. Cold definately 'does' make this pain worse.
As for figuring it out, I agree. Some Docs mean well, but how hard do you really work on a problem that you do not understand because you don't deal with it?
Wolf
Well Wolf, the cold affects me, I just don't see a difference with the ringing with the cold...could also be due to the stinosis is compressing the area....mayb once that is corrected the cold will be more noticable?
Does that ear pain feel like someone is jabbing u with an ice pick?
IF we don't figure out what and how this affects us , who will?
"selma"
Sounds like, at least with the three of us, the ringing is common. Selma, considering the neck spasams here your idea of constricting the nerve would make sense. But then if cold doesn't affect you that way and Ray didn't mention cold effecting it either... dunno maybe all chiarians are susceptable to similar symptoms but are not nessasaryly effected the same by those symptoms??? Or perhaps it is different degrees of DDD and or other associated problems. OH well, done being a scientist, not enough raw data to really compare.... The nerve problem does make perfect sense though being as we all have this same droupy brain problem sqishing [is that a word] things in our neck.
BTW- I do get pain in my ears at times as well. It does seem to be worse when the ringing is bad.
Wolf
I have this ringing, worse at night.....I have it for many years. I also have a full sensation in my ears from time to time but I don't think it makes the reining worse.....
Ray
Wolf...I have it all the time.,.....it had stopped the first 2 months post op, but came back with a vengeance....I have either ringing or buzzing it goes back and forth, but there is always some type of noise in my ears.....I also noticed I get pains in my ear as well.
As for the cold doesn't it cause the nerves to tighten? Constrict? Could that be the reason it seems to be bothering u more now?
The weather has not changed the effect on mine.
"selma"
That is pretty much what I was told a few months ago Ray. Not my Dr but his PA did tell us that the ringing is a very common Chiari symptom but didn't know why. What selma says here really does make a lot of sense to me. Dr M seems to have answered that.
So why does it get worse with this cold? or perhaps it's not the cold; maybe it is just the timing and the cold is a coinsidence.
Just how common is the ringing? How many here deal with ringing in the ears?
Wolf
The only thing the Doctors had to say about the tinnitus when I asked about it was that you will just have to get used to it. I was told after a hearing test that I have intolerance of certain tones but again the Doctors did not say it is due to Chiari.
Ray
Well I think we all heard the expression u r on my last nerve......this next bit of info was copied from a report by Dr Milhorat at TCI: written in an article by Rick Labuda
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the hearing problems associated with Chiari are considered to be senorineural (SNHI), meaning that they arise from problems with the eighth cranial nerve, the inner ear, or the brain auditory processing centers, as opposed to the tiny follicles in the ear which are critical for hearing.
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So, if chiari is affect our 8th nerve it is responsible for our hearing issues, be the a loss of hearing or intolerances to sound and the nagging ring or buzzing we have in our ears......JMHO
"selma"