Has anyone had successful treatment for blocked Eustation tubes?

[kevin202]

Recently my Eustation tubes became blocked and I feel awful and hurt very badly.  I am also scared to death of going deaf.  When I checked the internet I could not find any positive stories from people who have had successful treatment for blocked Eustatian tubes.  I would really feel a lot better if I had hope of recovery.  Does anyone know of any success stories?  

[Wear/a/Jimmy]

Chlorine the cure all.....


Seriously, listen to dancingal

[dancingal123]

I would suggest having tube surgery I did

[friggy]

I think that you are correct--there is not an effective treatment for ETD.  My older, experienced doctor, and the freshly-trained doctor who subbed for him on vacation gave me the same treatment--pseudofed to dry up the head, and Mucinex, which worked a little.  I also gave up dairy products and white-flour stuff, which are mucus producers.

I cured my ETD (muffled hearing, earpopping, and tinnitus) by going to a swimming pool everyday last summer, going underwater, turning every which way, blowing bubbles out my nose, and humming loudly underwater.  This got chlorinated water into my Eustachian tubes.  When I got home, i laid down on the bed with my infected ear up, and blew up a balloon, which got enough air pressure into my tube to drain it (balloon trick was the only useful info I got from a doctor on the internet).  It took 3 weeks, but the problem is gone.

A better treatment would be to get hypertonic saline into the Eustachian tubes, which would clean it and shrink the tissues.  Even though I invented a highly effective method of flushing sinus infections, I don't know how to get saline to the ear, and maybe someone else could help you out.

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