Hello, Welcome to icliniq.com. I read your query and can understand your concern. Your complaint and history imply that you have ETD (Eustachian tube dysfunction). This happens when your eustachian tube, which links your middle ear to the posterior section of your nasal cavity, fails to open when swallowing or yawning. It is essential because it maintains pressure homeostasis within your ear.
Hello, Welcome to icliniq.com. The infection of ear may be minor but for full protection you should take a booster dose of tetanus toxoid if you have not taken it in last ten years. It is recommended that you take a booster dose of tetanus once in every ten years. So, if you have not taken any then take one. It will help you for the next 10 years.
Hello, Welcome to icliniq.com. What you are suffering from is known as tinnitus. It is not a disease itself rather a symptom due to various underlying causes like age related, hypertension, impacted wax, fluid in middle ear, patulous eustachian tube, TMJD (temperomandibular joint disorder), hyperthyroidism, etc. But, as you have mentioned you are not suffering from any hearing loss, vertigo and your blood pressure is also within normal limit and considering the characteristics of tinnitus it is mostly due to eustachian tube defect. Aspirin intake also causes and aggravates tinnitus.
Hello, Welcome to icliniq.com. Your PTA (pure tone audiometry) showing minimal hearing loss in right ear and normal hearing in the left. I do not think this minimal hearing loss cause the tinnitus unless the hearing loss is progressive. Tinnitus is not a disease. It is a symptom due to many underlying disease, so we need to exclude the cause for the tinnitus first.
Hello, Welcome to icliniq.com. From your history of noise exposure and symptoms, it is suggestive of acoustic trauma. It occurs after a single exposure to very intense sound which cause damage to the organ of corti or damage the hair cells. Symptoms include ringing sensation in ear known as tinnitus and hearing loss. Treatment depends on severity of symptoms.
Hi, Welcome to icliniq.com. Scarring of the tympanic membrane (myringosclerosis) rarely causes symptoms. Tympanosclerosis can extend to the middle ear and produce hearing loss. With your clinical history, it suggests presbycusis (an age-related degenerative disorder of inner ear). You need to visit an ENT specialist for proper examination and audiometry.
Hello, Welcome to icliniq.com. The cough which occurs during ear cleaning is due to stimulus to your auricular branch of the vagus nerve, which is normal. Now coming to your problem, many times mild pain occurs due to impacted wax or ETD (eustachian tube dysfunction). Both cases it is advisable to consult an ENT surgeon for the proper examination of the ear. Till then, continue the ear drop, do Valsalva 30 to 40 times a day.
Hello, Welcome to icliniq.com. First of all, do not worry and do not go to some conclusion after an internet search. Now coming to your problem, Tinnitus is not a disease in itself but a mere symptom that is associated with varying number of diseases. By definition, it is a sound perceived for more than five minutes at a time in the absence of any external acoustical or electrical stimulus to ear. It may be subjective, when audible to patient only or objective when audible to both patient and examiner.
Hello, Welcome to icliniq.com. After reading your symptoms and looking at your photo (attachment removed to protect patient identity), it is suggesting of chronic pharyngitis with chronic tonsillitis. The whitish spots over your tonsils are the food particles that clogged within the tonsillar crypts. These can be easily removed by applying pressure with your finger against the tonsils. These are not major health issues, but in long period they may converted to tonsillolith (tonsil stone) or may give tonsillar infection.
Hello, Welcome to icliniq.com. Yes, it is technically possible to implant a small GPRS (general packet radio service) chip in your post aural region. But, that type of device cost a lot. I do not think that anyone can access to that type of device as shown in most of spy movies. So, do not worry.
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