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Thumping/drumming in one ear
It started about a week ago, I was walking my dog and suddenly I hear this rapid drumming sound in my right ear, twice, it doesn’t match my heartbeat at all, the second time it happened I covered my right ear with a finger and it’s gone. And since then I’ve been having occasional rapid thumps (3-4 thumps) in the right ear, maybe once or twice a day or sometimes none in a day, no common trigger, just happens randomly during the day. I don’t know why? When the thumping happens it feels like that ear is partially blocked like under water.
I’m currently experiencing slight dizziness due to bad postures from a few weeks ago, which leads to sore neck and shoulder, not sure if this could be related?
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Yes please let me know how it goes! I'm scheduling to see another ENT soon. I suspect I may have middle ear myoclonus, so I called and asked an office near me if they would know how to treat it, they said yes, so I'm hoping they can. I'm hoping they will actually help get rid or minimize it instead of trying to mask it by prescribing muscle relaxers or something which doesn't actually help the issues. I don't have insurance at the moment so this is the biggest issue, however if botox really does work then I think I may have no other choice.
Did they tell you about your treatment options when they said they can treat it ? But yea muscle relaxers did nothing for me nor did the alprazolam. It may give you a little relief as in terms of relaxing and getting a little piece of mind but both of those medications aren’t something you want to be on long term, you’ll then end up having two problems on your hands, dependence for controlled substance and also still dealing with your ear issue. I’ll definitely keep everyone posted on my treatment. I recommend you see a psychiatrist and let them know this impacted your life cause it sure did for me. I believe that if we all can’t get treatment for this and if there is but they don’t work then it should count as a disability.
God Bless.
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1 ReactionThey did not mention what treatments they have, but I'll see. If all else fails I'm also going to try acupuncture and chiropractor. I wanna say when I was seeing a chiropractor the thumping was a little less, but it also just seems to have gotten more frequent over time anyways so its hard to say. I'm just in the mindset that I refuse to give up , there is no way I can live with this, or at the very least I can't live with how frequent it happens now. Wakes me up almost nightly at this point.
Yea I have rough nights as well my mental health has gone done the drain. I forgot to mention I did chiropractor as well and sadly I didn’t get the results that I wanted to get. How ever I haven’t tried acupuncture but I would like to give it a try and actually tell them what I’m experiencing so maybe they can do the method more near the ears. It’s worth a shot but I’ve tried so many things I feel hopeless 🙁 I hope this Botox treatment works well for me I herd good things about it and my doctor says his patients with tittnitus and Hypercusis have found relief from it. He also said if it fails we’re going to do a MRI around the jaws of my mouth that connect to your ear how ever he said if all else fails he’s going to help me get qualified for disability cause I can’t really do much anymore I never have the energy for one and when I do something and the ear starts bugging me I get so fed up I can’t focus I can’t do much. It’s impacted my life so bad 🙁 I can’t enjoy anything anymore it’s really sad but I try.. if you’re interested in my doctors his name is Dr Andrew Berman of Beverly Hills. He accepts people with insurance or no insurance and the botox treatment with out insurance is only $400.
Oh wow, thank you! I will definitely reach out. I'm in Anaheim so not terribly far from there. I'm sorry chiro didn't help. And I hear you, it really is starting to affect me greatly. At first it would just happen here and there for an hour or two, and its just gotten worse which scares me. I'm young still and I don't want it to debilitate me but its starting to get to that point. I hope for both of us something works. I was also wondering if possibly my jaw does have something to do with it. Once I get insurance I do plan on having that looked at as well. Please let me know how the botox goes!
Oh sweet if you’re in Anaheim definitely reach out to him don’t sleep on it.
Look into covered California as well I got blue shield thru them and only pay about 70$ a month for a PPO.
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1 ReactionPulsating or Spasming? I had a spasming issue near my right ear and once my left ear sounded like sporadic drumming. Not exactly my ear. If it is spasming check if it is your Superficial Temporal Nerve. The nerve that goes right beside your ear. Let me know,
So I had this issue of sporadic drumming, especially on my right ear, the whole right side left tight and tensed, and had tinnitus over that. The spasms and the drumming sound went away but the pulsation feeling still comes once in a while but slowly reduced in its intensity. It seems to be getting better. My PCP said it is a stress response and to get a mouth splint. Nowadays I feel some TMJ pain and will see a TMJ doc soon hopefully. I also felt my shoulder and neck tense and it still is tense. My neck artery on my right side started to pulsate since yesterday, it is scary, and making me nervous. If anyone had the same experience please share.
@zoomer925 Check out my response it may help. My condition got worse before it got better. It took about 85 days for my tinnitus to almost go away, and the drumming took about 45 days. Hope that helps.
It’s like a muscle spasm that’s all I can describe it, It doesn’t match my heart beat either. It’s just like a muscle spasm in the leg for say.