Severe deafness in left ear 6 years ago so don’t bother wearing hearing aid but now right ear has patulous so sounds like a microphone comes on in my ear when I speak. Can hear myself breathing even which is all very annoying. For now, it goes back and forth so have a bit of reprieve but ENT warns me there’s pressure and wants to cut ear drum and put in tubes which can be done in office. I’m waiting to see if lowering my prednisone (arthritis related) plus trying to gain back weight may help the situation. I’m dealing with so many other issues right now but losing hearing is a biggie. I’ve done reading on this procedure and seems there’s a lot of negative results for this procedure and could make things worse. Anyone else with the eustasion tube “in open” position like mine and has had the tube procedure?