Desperate for a solution - chronic Eustachian Tube Dysfunction

My issues started on New Year's Day.  For four months I had constant clogging, crackling, popping, pulling and was generally miserable.  While I'm not cured, I am a lot better.  I tested positive for food and environmental allergies so I eliminated the foods and started allergy shots.  My ENT thought I had TMJ and sent me to a specialist who confirmed I did have it.  Wearing a bite splint to take the pressure off my facial muscles and going to PT has really helped my ears too.  Since TMJ is usually a muscle issue I take anxiety medication to try and stay relaxed.  So between the food allergen elimination, allergy meds, allergy shots, physical therapy, anxiety treatment and splint therapy I have greatly improved but I'm still not back to normal.  Maybe some day!   My next step is a jaw repositioning splint but I am reluctant to move forward.  It's expensive with no guarantees and some reports of people getting worse instead of better.  

 

Hi Melbassett,

I stumbled upon this site while googling how to relieve my sinus induced vertigo.

When you mentioned having air in your eustachian tube, I immediately thought of Ayurveda. I'm currently studying Ayurvedic Medicine, which is an ancient Indian healing modality. I have found it to bring answers to health issues for which western medicine can not even define.

Ayurveda teaches that optimal health can be achieved by maintaining balance in the body through proper diet and lifestyle. Proper is the key word and what might be proper for one individual may not be for another as we each have varying constitutions and imbalances.

You can do a bit of research yourself by finding a dosha test online and reading about the various qualities and balancing foods for the different doshas.

For instance, if you are also experiencing issues with achy joints, intestinal gas, and nervousness you may have what's called a VATA imbalance. What's more, if your eating healthy stuff like salads, raw vegetables, and dried nuts/fruits, you could be aggravating your imbalance.

I'm pretty sure my troubles were aggravated by my over indulgence of ice cream the last few days since cold foods and dairy can create more mucous in the body and slow down fluid movement.

I would suggest finding an experienced Ayurvedic doctor to give you a detailed evaluation of your imbalance. The problem may not even be in your eustachian tubes!

I'm going to spice things up today in my diet and see if that gets my tubes to unclog! Hope you feel better soon!

I started having Eustachian tube dysfunction last year and  i’ve found that changing my diet has helped a lot.  I’ve avoided dairy and I noticed  a difference and I drink a lot of water. My ears are still not  100% but there better then what they were.

Pray to GOD.I can promise you that help will come. I have no doubt about that. GOD is all knowing and hearing.Hope from GOD and I can say without a shadow of doubt that your problem will be sorted out.It is GOD who has given you this problem and he alone can solve it,and remember that nothing ever happens by coincidence.And your getting this problem was not a coincidence ,I REPEAT NOT A COINCIDENCE. GOD is fully aware of it.And you never know what can happen next second. Pray and pray with all your heart and keep faith in the greatest GOD.

 

From another sufferer who suffered the same problem for 11 months straight. And the problem is long gone.It's been 3 years and it never came back. I tell you there is only one solution for this which I have listed above.Believe it or NOT.

Keep praying and NEVER EVER give up! God answers prayer, but sometimes we just have to WAIT on the answer...no matter how long it may the. He is developing patience and perseverance. All the medications I've taken hasn't helped at all....but God alone is bringing me healing! Use your meds...but put your FAITH in Christ??😊

one of the approaches that people have written about online (and if one looks, there are better instructions online than what I am writing here) is using a neti pot with warm water (about a cup filled) with about 10-15 drops of nasal spray (with phenophryline as the active ingredient, available at a pharmacy) and then pouring that through one nostril but instead of allowing it to pass through the other nostril for an extended period, closing up the nostril with your finger so that the water pours into your throat and leaning backwards and filling the throat with that water (but using one's tongue to put pressure on the top of the throat and to ensure that the water does not pour down one's throat) and then closing both nostrils with your hand and then leaning to the left for 5-10 seconds, to the right for 5-10 seconds, back for 5-10 seconds, and forward for 5-10 seconds (or however long one can wait - it is hard to wait that long without a breath!)  and then ultimately allowing the water to flow out of your nostrils and blowing your nose several times and the valvalva maneuver. if this is not clear, i suggest you go online and search for a better explanation/instruction for performing this but the idea is that the water (with phenophryline anti-inflammation nasal drops) goes into your sinuses and ears (when you lean to the left and right) and it allows the ears to unclog. i hope that this is helpful. 

i would suggest that for a better explanation, you google "clogged ears: unclog your ears with a neti pot" and click on the first link