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Does anyone have severe ear pain my balance is worse with the pain also I have buzzing in my ear like I had beenat a rock concert I do have ringing in the ears but the buzzing is worse
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natalie47569 jonese98459
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I'm going to assume - since you are in this MD forum - that you are diagnosed with Meniere's and base my response accordingly. (if you are suffering these symptoms and are not under the care of a Dr. or do not have a diagnosis, pls get yourself to the best possible ENT and do it at a run.) I can't stress this strongly enough as you may have a benign tumor or other causes for your symptoms that need to be investigated.
I've lived with MD for 16 yrs, have had 3 surgeries for it, am on a 'cocktail' of meds to control the symptoms, am under the care of a specialist with an 86 page CV and is a research maven, and I am a retired/disabled RN. I have learned a bit about this dread disease.
If you do an image search for the inner ear and look at the cochlea, you'll see a very tiny chamber within that is called the nanolymph chamber. MD, also called 'hydrops' is the condition of increased pressure from excess fluid in that chamber, the cause of all the symptoms.
The ear pain - in MD - is caused by that fluid build-up and a type of rupture in that chamber; it comes and goes, as does the ringing/buzzing known as tinnitus.
My sense of balance is always worse with concurrent symptoms and I find that after an episode of vertigo, my sense of balance is weaker for a few days and for as long as 1-2 weeks, depending on a number of factors.
If this is a new symptom and as unrelenting as it sounds from your post, I would urge you to set up an appt with your ENT and ascertain that nothing else is going on and to see if meds would help. Perhaps you had a recent viral illness and have increased inflammation that would be helped with meds.
MD is a condition of variable severity, it is capricious, progressive, and life-impacting in the extreme. Pls get an appt set up to be evaluated for your worsening symptoms (although an RN, I hesitate to list the meds that are prescribed to treat the array of MD symptoms.)
Wishing you all the best in navigating your way through worst of Meniere's.
jonese98459 natalie47569
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eleftherio33095 jonese98459
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Eleftherios S. Papathanasiou, PhD, FEAN
Clinical Neurophysiologist
Fellow of the European Academy of Neurology
jonese98459 eleftherio33095
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eleftherio33095 jonese98459
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What you describe for the greater part appears to sound like Meniere's disease, but this is not usually associated with ear pain. Have you done the hearing test, as this will help prove if this is Meniere's disease or not.
The comment by the retired doctor is noteworthy. Medicine nowadays takes costs too much into account. Back then, Medicine was Medicine and nothing else.
Eleftherios S. Papathanasiou, PhD, FEAN
Clinical Neurophysiologist
Fellow of the European Academy of Neurology
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david4242 jonese98459
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No ear pain or tinnitus. Lost about 70% of hearing permanently in left ear. I've got my sodium intake under 1000 mg per day with no episodes in the last 4 months. No lunchmeat or white bread, olives, pickles, fast food, prepared salad dressings etc. all of which I love. Almost everything we eat has some sodium so I read labels carefully. It's a pain but sure beats spinning around uncontrollably and vomiting till my stomach is empty.
Debbieb34 jonese98459
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I HAVE HAD severe ear pain in my affected ear and have had other tests to rule out something more serious. I have had md for a little over 3 years and every time I told a doctor I had ear pain, they just said that ear pain is not a symptom of md, which is so frustrating, doctors know so little about this disease that all they go by is 'usual' symptoms in a textbook. My ear pain lasted several months and then got replaced with varying noises from tinnitus and hearing loss. I currently wear a hearing aid in that ear that plays a white noise to drown out the tinnitus. I hope you get some relief and answers.
Debbie