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Thumping in right ear, only triggered by sound
Ear, Nose & Throat (ENT) | Last Active: Dec 5 8:50pm | Replies (80)Comment receiving replies
@kwinckel -Hi. This is called Tonic Tensor Tempani “syndrome” TTTS. I put the “syndrome” in quotes as to not worry you. Western medicine puts a syndrome to everything and make people more worried than they need to. This is an inner ear muscular response that you created a tension from at one point from a hypersensitive sound specifically to you. Once you tensed this muscle, like from the first time your bosses voice irritated you or made you nervous, it kind of stays the time in the back ground in anticipation to similar or loud sounds to block them out for next time. On that same side you might also experience jaw tightness as a reflexive response to it. There is nothing wrong with you. It’s just an involuntary muscle response to sound.
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Thank you! it has been so hard to put into words what Ive been experiencing and googling my symptoms keeps leading me to tinnitus which never seemed accurate. Thank you!
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Thank you! On looking thru the web I have had this for a very long time. I was thinking it was a perceptual problem since the feeling was only in my right ear, never the left. I thought it was my right ear attempting to balance out my left ear’s auditory information since I believe the language processing part of the brain is usually on the left hemisphere (and thus the right ear). My assumption was that my brain was trying to interpret the information and had to create a sensory experience to be able to effectively process the info. I hadn’t thought of it possibly being also attached to muscular movements (maybe as an anticipatory as a protective mechanism?). Very interesting. Thanks again!