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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Tinnitus / April 2004earwax & variable tinnitus
I have tinnitus that just started up a week ago. I went to my GP and after a quick look he said my eardrums were impacted with wax and dx'd that as the likely cause of the tinnitus. After he went on to the next patient, his nurses tried flushing out my ears to no avail. They sent me home with some wax-dissolving ear drops and gave me an ear syringe. Now I read on a website that flushing the ear out forcibly with water can *CAUSE* inner ear damage (in the cochlea) - due to the loudness from the force of the injected water and can lead to future cochlear hair/nerve-damage tinnitus. Does anyone know if this is true? Also, why is it that having wax packed up against the ear drum causes tinnitus? My tinnitus seems to come and go depending upon whether I'm moving around or sitting still, independent of ambient noise. It genearally worsens if I'm sitting still and worse yet if I'm lying down (even in a noisey environment). But strangely I can also seem to make it briefly subside through a meditation technique. Thanks for your feedback, --Shane While it is a good idea to have the earcanal clear - your tinnitus may not have anything to do with that. It sounds more like a reult from muscular tension in the neck/shoulder muscles. http://eebee.net/TinnitusIsaPainintheNeck.shtml Tinnitus is a pain in the neck Elly's Tinnitus Resources http://eebee.net/ http://meniere.eebee.net/ For email: elly at eebee.cjb.net >I have tinnitus that just started up a week ago. I went to my GP and >after a quick look he said my eardrums were impacted with wax and dx'd [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > >--Shane If you have tinnitus, it makes no difference if you have impacted wax, infected tooth, hypertension, etc all these have to be corrected to see it that clears the condition. Murray Grossan, M.D. http://www.ent-consult.com > While it is a good idea to have the earcanal clear - your tinnitus may > not have anything to do with that. > > It sounds more like a reult from muscular tension in the neck/shoulder > muscles. "It sounds more like?" What are you a clairvoyant? Part of the CIA's remote sensing unit? There's one in every alt.support.* group. --Shane It looks like you are the self-appointed prophet of an alternative quack one-size-fits-all theory which is the result of having no clue and living on the usenet too long. >"It sounds more like?" What are you a clairvoyant? Part of the CIA's >remote sensing unit? COMMON SENSE - and 10 years worth of reading ast posts. Tinnitus is a pain in the neck Elly's Tinnitus Resources http://eebee.net/ http://meniere.eebee.net/ For email: elly at eebee.cjb.net >> While it is a good idea to have the earcanal clear - your tinnitus may >> not have anything to do with that. [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >quack one-size-fits-all theory which is the result of having no clue >and living on the usenet too long. >> It sounds more like a reult from muscular tension in the neck/shoulder >> muscles. >"It sounds more like?" What are you a clairvoyant? Part of the CIA's >remote sensing unit? ..................... Shane We each have our theories. Elly's theory on tinnitus is that it could be caused by tension in the neck and shoulders. She's been a valuable member of ast for many years and has helped alot of people. - jean >>> It sounds more like a reult from muscular tension in the neck/shoulder >>> muscles. [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > - jean I would be prudent to add at this point that a number of tinnitus sufferers also have/had TMJ which would point to some connection (at least for some) that the neck, jaw, etc. muscles/nerves, etc. can be involved. Terri http://pub219.ezboard.com/btinnitusactivismandsupport > Now I read on a website that flushing the ear out forcibly > with water can *CAUSE* inner ear damage (in the cochlea) I do not understand that ENTconsult does not comment on this. Forcibly can of course mean many things, but _generally_ "forcibly" is not required to remove wax from the ear canal, dissolving - if need be - and then gently flushing makes more sense. > - due to the loudness from the force of the injected water > and can lead to future cochlear hair/nerve-damage tinnitus. > Does anyone know if this is true? I have experienced a tympany-vestibular test that consists in flushing the ears with water to see if it triggers vertigo. What can get damaged, apart from the obvious risk of rupturing the eardrum - happened to someone vaguely known by me in a shower 20+ years ago - is the links between hammer, anvil and stirrup. The risk mechanism is that there are several protection devices in the ear's construction. One of them is that extreme amplitude will cause what is called in german "auslenkung" in the mechanical transmission path to prevent those extreme amplitudes from at all getting transmitted to the inner ear. Obviously whenever a cartialage joint, and that is what this is, no different from any other joint in the body, gets overloaded then some "looseness" is likely to remain. > Also, why is it that having wax packed up against the > ear drum causes tinnitus? I doubt that it does. It may - as may several other factors that can be addressed - cause it to be perceived as worse, but it remainsm my conviction that tinnitus has one cause only: destruction of the neural sensors, simple hearing damage being the most obvious cause thereof, there may be other, I plain do not know. > My tinnitus seems to come and go Yes, that is how tinnitus is. Stop looking for factors that make no difference overall, except to the amount of perception you allocate, lying down frees up brain resources so there is more acute awareness to allocate to aural perception. It also makes it relevant to so do because you have less visual clues to the surroundings and because you need longer reaction time to respond to a tiger, so increasing the resources to the early warning system "hearing" is a wise precautionary move by your body. > But strangely I can also seem to make it briefly > subside through a meditation technique. This is as it should be. Your age is undefined, but blood pressure regulation, at least with Cozaar (works kinda like Gingko Biloba, but hurts the wallet more and is a prescription drug to use on indication only) does in my experience make tinnitus less annoying. Annoyability per se is a consequence of high blood pressure ... so there, ymmv. Oh, not a "formally skilled opinion". > --Shane Kind regards Peter Larsen  Signature******************************************* * My site is at: http://www.muyiovatki.dk * ******************************************* |
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