Rapid thumping sound in right ear

Hi Andrew I started with thumping in my right ear about three days ago. I have just found this forum and read about the magnesium deficiency. So I googled what foods were high in magnesium and almonds came up. I went to the kitchen cupboard and I had a packet so I started eating them about 15 minutes ago and the thumping in my ear as now disappeared. I am so thankful to this website and will now definitely buy some magnesium citrate tablets.

2 tablets (400mg in total) of Magnesium Citrate Highly Absorbable by Solgar (available on Amazon) is what worked for me within hours of taking first dose. I have been symptom free ever since (month now); continuing to take this dose every evening.

I did try Magnesion Oxide without luck and also a triple magnesium complex (magnesium oxide, magnesium aspertate and magnesium citrate) without luck as well.

The thumping noise (also referred to as: clicking, popping, morse code, jack hammer, MRI thumping) started with me three months ago. I had this insanely irritating thumping noise almost 24-7. Almost always seemed to start as soon as I sat down in the evening to watch TV, reading and almost always as soon as I layed down to sleep. If I managed to get to sleep without the clicking, I would be awoken smack in the middle of the night.

My ENT wasn't able to provide me any relief from this constant noise. I desperately became my own advocate. With the help of this forum and an online web site for Fauquier ENT Consultants of Virginia describing an irregular ear clicking or vibration noise, I found my relief!

I hope this helps, magnesium citrate also helped me with IBS symptoms of constipation as well as leg and toe cramps. It may not be for everyone... check with your doctor to make sure it is right for you.

Hello, I posted on 30/3/15 in response to this query. I promised to come back at some stage with info. My drumming noise in my left ear has gone thankfully. It appears to have stopped after my wife applied an old remedy given to her by her mother. Basically, she poured a small amount of warm olive oil into the ear and then plugged it gently with coTton wool. This was done twice but I could feel it getting better after the first application. I have been free of the drumming noise since. I would liken the noise to the start of New Orders "Blue Monday" for any of you with an 80's indie/alternative musical disposition. Anyway, there you have it. I cannot say whether this will work for others but I felt I ought to post it up. One last thing......warm olive oil NOT HOT, NOT HOT. Sorry for shouting but that point needs to made clearly.

Best wishes

Hi Andrew ,I have had this problem for the last 6 years,I had it in both ears,then for some reason my right ear stopped?? I now get it in my left ear,I use an ear plug at night and this does help

Oh my goodness..I am so glad to hear others are going through this. My thumping is in my left ear and has been going on and off for several weeks! Dr. Checked my ears and said they are great ..perfect hearing. Said may be because I was in the mountains and should go away..like a muscle spasm. But it is not! Will definitely try magnesium! Driving me crazy!

To Andrew and all.   I've experienced the thumping when I put stress on my body in using new supplements for different health considerations, for instance candida killing suplements, etc.    I struggled for years so would minimize the dosage and take less often or stop altogether.   A few days to weeks later the thumping finally would alleviate.   

I happened on this forum because I started again some candida killing sups today and pretty much 20 minutes in the thumping started.   Haven't tried the sups in almost a year.   Thought to myself, oh that's right, that's why I stopped taking these.   Had an extreme flairup of candida past few days because i started an alpha lipoic acid protocol for chelation (mercury chelation).   ALA is magic to me but only side effect is a rise in candida.   

I came across one post, one line, elsewhere, different forum, buried amidst reams of posts on magnesium helping this one lady.   

I went and filled up a small 1.5 foot by 1 foot plastic container (wife uses it to store christmas decorations, etc.   It's about 6 inches tall.   Sorry for the Brits who use the metric system.   Anyhow I filled it up 1.5 inches with water and put in a lump of magnesium (epson salt) and soaked my feet in it.   Only covered the bottom of my feet.   The feet absorb it right in.   I kept it in for 20 minutes and sure enough the thumping went away.   It's magic.   I struggled for years with it.   

My take is this.   For me.   The body is struggling with the ALA protocol and the reaction of dying of Candida, two separate things going on.   I knew that chelating could deplete magnesium; talked about quite a lot in the ALA (Dr. Cutler) forums. I despise oral magnesium.   I had always liked the transdermal approach.   It will never reach a point of overdose and diarrea transdermally.   You can bring your magnesium levels back to normal after a while, a few days to 1 week through transdermal.    It's quite powerful and magnesium happens to be one of the elements that is quiet successful with this approach.   The feet are great for it, don't need whole body bath, etc.   

I just wanted to pass this along as support for this forum's discovery and to offer another way to take the mag.    

I know about mag and how I like to approach it from other experiments with myself but I never had the thumping when I was trying the magnesium so I never connected the two; deficiency in mag due to load on the body and nerve and muscle affects in the ear.   

Greatful for this forum.    Usually it would take at least two days of staying away from the thing I introduced into my body before the thumping would go away, if I only took one dose.   If I had been on it for a week and let the thumping continue, then a week to a few weeks before it would go away.   Now it makes sense that my body was in that time rebuilding its magnesium.   

Anything taxing on the body can diminish our mag.

StephenGunn 

I have a similar experience but it's not thumping sounds. When I lie down, I hear a popping or bubbling sounds in my left ear. It won't go away until I get up ??

Hi Andrew,

​In my right ear I hear a sound like a very fast heartbeat as you said. I will go to the ENT and if I reach anywhere I will share the result.I have a few questions for you and I would really appreciate it if you could answer:

​First: Did you finally find out what the problem was? What was it? What is your advise?

​Second: I can reproduce the sound. It is not rando´m I think; I can hear it by positioning my right ear on a pillow. Have you checked if you can reproduce the sound too? I am asking this because I think the randomness might be important.

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Many thanks in advance

I'm getting this in my left ear after i drink coffee ,i'd guess increased blood flow? but when i run and do cardio and stuff i dont get it ,only like 4+ hours after coffe 

I am dealing with this too. For have been over three years since my head injury. I am wondering if there is connection? I have ringing in ears, sounds like wind blowing or music, but this knocking or what I say; almost sounds like water faucet dripping noise in slow motion?