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Hearing Loss & Valsalva Maneuver: Looking for Information
Ear, Nose & Throat (ENT) | Last Active: Aug 16, 2023 | Replies (53)Comment receiving replies
Please, if at all possible, keep us posted on your treatments and findings. I know some drs can actually place a scope into your nose right the the eustachian tube to view it. But if you go the MRI route, I'd love to know more about that. I'm seeing an otologist at MUSC (specialist) myself coming up who thinks a ballon dilation might be helpful for eustachian tube dysfunction, but no one has ever definitively diagnosed it, or actually looked AT my eustachian tubes. I have the fullness though, the pressure, and a layer of high end hearing comes back when I do Toynbee manoever (I stopped doing valasalva a few months ago). I actually try to do toynbee as few times as possible, but the pressure/fullness feeling is maddening. I really want to compare notes if we can - so again, please keep us posted and good luck with all of this!!!
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I don't know what the toynbee is, I have to look it up. I'm only talking to him on the phone (I hope), they don't do telehealth visits in ENT Dept. he may not be able to do it. No one has called me back so far to tell me if he will do it. If not, then I have to make an in person appt. for a few weeks away, probably the first available. No one has looked at my eustachian tubes either so far as I know, I don't think he has. But I'm guessing they're involved because of the symptoms. I read the balloon dilation needs anesthesia, that will be difficult, it has to be general anesthesia, this place is an hour in each direction from me and a cab is $340 round trip. I'll definitely post anything he says about MRI and if I have any treatment.