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Facial/temporal and ear spasms, tinnitus, vertigo, pain. Please help
Brain & Nervous System | Last Active: Feb 1 9:59am | Replies (29)Comment receiving replies
Need to address your over lifestyle and how you manage stress. Sleep, Exercise, Movement, Nutrition and what you do for fun/joy.
A vice like grip and muscular twitching is tension type/stress headaches. Typically starts in the neck from tight tense muscles works its way up to the ear face and head. All by starting from ongoing tension/stress cycles.
You have now most likely increased this to health anxiety by thinking something is “really wrong” and having tests done.
Your PCP won’t tell you to address lifestyle unless they are really in tuned to what a patient presents with stress.
If only people could get more in touch with their mind/body, would their be less unnecessary tests, doctor visits, and band aid medications.
Stay away from ENT.
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@seeking info and @megtalleywright I respectfully but strongly disagree with the idea that stress is causing symptoms. Stress does not cause tinnitus. Though stress can make it worse and working on acceptance can help the brain accommodate to it to some degree.
These symptoms can be more than one thing that are interrelated. My tinnitus is on one side, as is my trigeminal and occipital neuralgia. The pain can extend down the left side. My neuro doesn't treat my symptoms as strange but some other docs do! I hope you can find a neuro who is reassuring.
With tinnitus there can be an initial triggering event. It is thought to originate in the brain in response to hearing loss or some damage to an auditory nerve, according to the forum Tinnitus Talk, which covers tinnitus as well as hyperacusis (noise sensitivity). One ENT told me that his tinnitus gets worse with certain positions of his neck. The neck, brain, facial nerves and auditory nerves are all connected and it can be hard to pinpoint the exact source. The website Hyperacusis Forum is also helpful.
A PT can be very helpful with massage and vertigo diagnosis. An audiologist is most likely to be helpful with the tinnitus. A neurologist can discuss the pain symptoms. If hearing loss or tinnitus is bilateral, an acoustic neuroma (benign) needs to be considered.
The hardest thing with tinnitus and some of the other symptoms is, because there are no good answers, the patient tends to hear about stress. Handling stress helps with all health issues and can certainly worsen symptoms, but it is unlikely (in my view not possible) that stress is causing your issues.