Someone help me! My ears are driving me insane!

[Jess342]

So for the past year or so I've had crackles and crunches in my ear whenever I tensed, yawned, spoke or swallowed. I thought it was a normal thing, but then recently it's gotten a lot worse, and it's started hurting too now. I thought it was just in my head, but I was talking to my dad and I told him about it, I said 'dad can you hear this?' And I tensed a few times to make my ears crackle. He said he could hear small click noises, and I've even made voice memos of it to see if it was audible for other people.

I just want to know what I should do? It is a constant annoyance and it's getting me really upset recently.