I don't know if I have the same problem but ever since I was a kid one of my ears would plug up and everything sounded funny like I was under water.been to al kinds of doctors.turns out all it is is water behind the ear drum.the symptoms were not always the same.my ear would echo,hurt.sound like I was under water,extreme pressure, make strange noises that other people could hear,it would come and go. The only thing I foumd that works is a netti pot this cleans your sinuses it works every time you can get it at any pharnacy don't know if this helped but good luck

I am so relieved (but still saddened) that I am not alone in this matter. The constant sniffing and plugging my nose to regulate my hearing from all the echoes temporarily drives me insane and ends up giving me migraine like headaches from the constant pressure. I am going to research ETD and PET more to figure something out.

I have the same thing and my ENT said it is a new condition that a lot of doctors haven't heard about yet. I know you commented in 2008 but if you are still looking for answers he is one. It's called superior canal dehiscence. The ENT will do some tests and a CT scan to diagnose it.

Hi jaenia I am suffering from the very same problem I would be very grateful to hear from any one that can help me thanks matt

I've had problems with an echo in the ear for the past year, but found noise seemed to be amplified. It was like hearing underwater with a full feeling in the ear. Whe I went and saw the ENT this turned out to be a perminantly open eustacian tube that doesn't shut off properly, a condition known as Patulous Eustachian Tube. My doctor misdiagnosed the opposite and gave a nasal spray that does absolutely nothing for it. They gave me some meds to congest the back of the eustacian tube and it kind of works.

For more info visit: http://www.jacksonearclinic.com/pages/piTubes.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patulou...tube#Treatment

Hi, I joined this forum because this is the only site where I found similarities to what I experience.
Some months ago, I started feeling my left ear was full and I heard strange sounds. Then I suffered intermittent tinnitus. Sometimes I heard an echo and some sounds like the TV echoed in high pitch. Sometimes my voice sounded like D. Vadar, too. And some sounds were even too loud to bear.And sometimes I felt a hollow feeling or like the sound of wind or a roar too. Then all disappeared and the tinnitus remained.
I had a non-contrast mri, an electronistagmography and an audiogram and they came normal. But when the ent did a fork test it's not normal, it detected SNHL.
So I guess there must be a problem with the ear that comes and goes? I wonder if anyone feels more or less the same strange thing? I had not been able to get an accurate diagnosis yet, but I see that seems to be a common experience...

Have the same thing for a couple of years. I've been investigating. There are tubes that can be placed forever in your ears (http://www.earsurgery.org/site/pages/conditions/serous-otitis-media.php).please don't give up.let me know if you try to do more search.

Thank you for posting this. I have experienced these symptoms five years ago and they ceased after a few days. My GP was unhelpful that time, it just resolved alone. This time it has started with feeling eery headache creeping up. I had a head/neck massage, which helped a bit for two days, but two days later I felt pressure in both ears, scull tenderness behind the right ear (sore to touch 8/10) with some swelling and echo to continuous deep sounds particularly. I feel exhausted and just feel it needs to pop away as it feel like pressure. I tried sudafed for sinuses, no help. Neurophen did not help much either. I might go and see another GP tomorrow. I do hope it goes away like it did once before.

I have a similar issue. I had a sudden hearing loss in my right ear that doctors can't figure out why (calling it audipathic hearing loss). I've done some other tests and ruled out tumors, nerve damage and inner ear damage. This condition also causes an echo of my voice or any sound in the right ear. The tinnitus is constant and gets louder sometimes. The hearing aid didn't help with the echo or tinnitus. But I've read about tinnitus masking therapy which ill try soon. There are also other ways to mask tinnitus. CDs with broad band white noise or natural masking sounds are available. Sound pillows with small speakers embedded in the pillows are offered by several manufacturers. Tinnitus masker: The devices are similar to hearing aids except that they do not amplify sound; they produce a sound which masks tinnitus. The Tinnitus Instrument: The devices are a combination of a hearing aid and a tinnitus masker in the same instrument. They are prescribed for those people with hearing loss who do not have significant relief with a hearing aid alone.


Recently, maskers have been developed that can be individually tuned to match the tinnitus frequency.

Hi Jeania.I am just going thro this page today. Did your echoing ears permanently resolve? Did you also try to ask your ENT specialist or GP why sinus and throat infections *** hoarseness of voice seemed to solve the echoing problem? I'll really love to have a scientific explanation to this. Can anyone help?

Hi All,

My has fully resolved. I assume it was some sort of temporary inflammation or ENT system. Best wishes to all.

Mine, too, stopped on its own after about 2 weeks (I did not see a doctor). It took about 8 - 10 days before I noticed a change in which the echo seemed to gradually lessen. By the end of the two weeks, it just disappeared, almost without my realizing it... The only thing I could think of that could have caused mine was getting some water in my ear after showering (although that just didn't seem logical to me to create an echo sound)... Good luck to all who are experiencing this same thing and hope your symptoms,too, go away on their own.

Olayi2,

I went to a plethora or specialists and took an assortment tests and absorbed a vast variety of medications over the past few years. The problem persists but gets better at times. I have grown used to it.

Jaenia

I have had this for over twenty tears in my left ear only. It occurs almost daily, all day, during hot weather. It never used to "plug" in winter months, but has begun to the last couple of years. I have noticed that changes in atmospheric pressure either cause it or relieve it. During a summer rain storm, as the pressure is low, it never plugs. When the storm passes and the heat returns, it plugs again. I went to an ENT, no luck. I tried acupuncture, no luck. I tried a Chiropractor, no luck, but I have tremors in my extremities now. I had no idea that my ear could touch my shoulder until these treatments. Thanks Doc. Placing an ice pack behind my left ear for about 30 minutes will usually stop it for several hours. Lying down flat almost always stops it, until I get up. Eating ice cream or drinking milk shakes will temporarily stop it, but now I have blood sugar issues. Bending over and touching the floor or bending over while sitting will always stop it, but it returns minutes or seconds later after returning to vertical. The only time the 'plugging" never occurs is when I have a cold. It almost makes having a cold enjoyable. I just read the post about PET and the drops called Patulend. I'm ordering some. I'll try anything, this condition has about driven me nuts. Thanks for all the information.

Try to do tympanometry and audiometry, from history the condition my be due to eustachian tube disfunction and/or allergic rhinitis, and if the condition proved to be otitis media with effusion in one ear c.t. nasopharynx is a must to exclude nasopharyngeal pathology.

Try to do tympanometry and audiometry, from history the condition my be due to eustachian tube disfunction and/or allergic rhinitis, and if the condition proved to be otitis media with effusion in one ear c.t. nasopharynx is a must to exclude nasopharyngeal pathology.

Dear mhamrosh,
Are you suggesting surgery?

Can you explain that in English?

Jaenia

I've had this same condition for over 7 years. It first started in my right ear, then moved to my left. It then started affecting both ears so the specialist who I saw the first time recommended I have grommets inserted into my ears. This appeared to give me around about 7 months of it not happening - bliss!
The issue came back gradually until its now got to the point it was at before I had the grommets inserted. I am seeing my local Dr on Thursday to see if the grommets have fallen out, and to see what can be done, as I hate living with it.

After a plethora of tests and medications I gave up on seeing doctors about whatever it is. They did try cutting openings in my ear drums to relieve pressure or something (I suppose that was the preliminary to the grommets you mentioned) but it wasn't much help and we let them heal up.

It's still annoying at times but I have has some success just trying to ignore it. I'm still not clear on what causes the problem. Only that the pressure in there is never quite equalized. I suppose as genetic mutations go I can consider myself lucky to have one that is in no way debilitating.