Possible ETD Relief... After ear infection
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Also read: "[color=#0f2e4c]Possible ETD Relief... may also apply to hearing and tinnitus issues" [/color] I originally wrote this about a month ago, but wanted to make sure I improved. Since then, there has been a new finding. There are two pieces to the puzzle. ETD for about 5 months, right eustachian would not open. Toward the end I started getting some movement only to have it get stuck open. Meaning I popped my ears and my right ear stayed in that position. I believe ETD started in the fall due to dehydration, dry conditions, and celebrating a little too hard on the weekends. Began with pressure issues, a cold, then finally a middle ear infection with fluid. Initially I was misdiagnosed with an outer ear infection. By the time I went to a specialist a month later, my ear was about to rupture. He gave me ciprofloxacin and prednisone for 10 days, and told me not to fly. The prednisone removed the fluid, but took 2 weeks to recover from the side effects... unfortunately the eustachian did not open. For the most part doctors had no answers for me. I went as healthy as possible, no bad habits, 100% natural foods, and dairy free. If it were not for ETD I would have felt like a million bucks. My asthma even improved. Edit: I'm going to leave the madness below... There were some ups and downs for a few weeks. Try Nasacort every 12 hours for 2-3 weeks, experiment with Sudafed or Claritin D as you see fit. Study these meds before using. Consider coating your nostrils with Waxeleen or Vaseline if they get dry. See other post: I believe the complications and ups and downs were due to what the doctor removed from my ear. Ear drum would not flex due to enamel like coating on ear. I believe my ear drum may have felt stuck open because the coating concaved my ear drum outward... Eventually I found relief by pressing in on my ear drum which also removed the air from my middle ear. [color=#222222]I'm not a fan of medication, but after my eustachian stuck open, I gave in. At this point I had no noticeable congestion and also broke the habit of constantly trying to pop my ears or move my jaw. For the first 5 days I took sudafed before and after work, and 2 doses of nasacort every 24 hours. For the next 4 days I took 12 Hour Claritin-D every 12 hours and around the same time, took one dose of Nasacort. Somewhere around the 7 day mark I noticed improvement. Around the 8th day my ear was popping on its own when I would swallow, eat, etc. The 9th day, in the evening, I thought it was safe to adjust my ear and it stuck open again. It eventually straightened out the next day and I decided to stop the meds because my sinuses and mouth were starting to dry out.... Edit: I ended up starting them again a week later.[/color] I read some people were using nasal sprays with neti pots. Too risky for me. Wait for the oral med to kick in, use one dose of Nasacort, wait for a few, take a steamy shower, and then take the second dose. Ask yourself this. Before ETD, how functional were your eustachian tubes, and how many times a day did you try to get your ears to pop? Personally, it never crossed my mind. My suspicion is that my right ear was never at 100% and I damaged it by trying to force it open while I had a cold... which caused the ear infection... which caused more problems. I convinced myself to treat my eustachian tube like a broken bone or torn muscle. The worst feeling ever was when it stuck open. After I got it back to somewhat normal, I left it alone.
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terrie27149 steve77387
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steve77387 terrie27149
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I'm hoping your response was genuine. If you need more ideas, the beginning was supposed to say "Also Read: Possible ETD Relief... may also apply to hearing and tinnitus issues."
terrie27149 steve77387
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kirsty12709 steve77387
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I'm constantly trying to pop mine, it seems to have become a habit now! I find it very intesresting to think about how it was before all this happened, and how it was functioning before I actually thought about it...
Thank you for this post. It's such a life altering issue!
steve77387 kirsty12709
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Hopefully you have some success. Its so hard to not check the function of your ears first thing in the morning. Did you see the other bit I posted right before this one about the doc removing stuff from my ear? If you click on my username you can kinda see the condition progress. There's a few other posts there.
I repair commercial kitchen equipment and HVACR for a living and I'm single.... 5 months alone in misery is plenty of time to try to repair my ear. After I watched a video of eustachian tube balloon dilation, it changed my whole approach to the condition. It's so hard to fix something you can't see and or don't understand. Most people have no idea of what we're talking about. The nurse yesterday at the ENT office asked why was there, when I said eustachian tube, she thought I was referring to PE tubes. I corrected her several times and by the end of it, she still had no clue.
If you have any questions feel free to ask.
kirsty12709 steve77387
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I will try and have a look at your other post.
I completely sympathise with the fact no one seems to have a clue what you're on about! It really is a life changing condition, and I don't think people can comprehend how much it takes over daily life.
I finally got a referral to ENT only to be told that there are no appointments available to me, and that I must go back to my doctor for another referral. It's an absolute joke! I waited a year to get it! It really doesn't seem to be taken that seriously.
I was put on antidepressants for it at first and they made me feel awful, and it was horrid getting off them!
I'm so pleased you've found relief. And yes, completely agree that it's the first thing I think of doing when I wake. In fact it's disturbed my quality of sleep.
Thank you for replying 😊