I was getting a massage a few months ago, and the therapist kind of pulled on my ears a bit...I noticed that they made a crakling noise.
I don't know if anyone else can hear it, like when you crack your knuckles, and I can't tell if it's the cartilage or inside my ear... but now everytime I pull my ears it happens....
and I also notice that in the back of my ear, at the base, it's tender. I forgot to bring it up to LLMD, but he did look in my ears, and I would assume if there was an infection he would have said so.
does anyone else have this problem?
Posted by Carol in PA (Member # 5338) on :
Look up info about Relapsing Polychondritis.
It's an autoimmune thing, that attacks cartilage.
They don't know what causes it, but I suspect that Lyme Disease triggers autoimmune problems.
Carol
Posted by mjo (Member # 7876) on :
Sometimes my ears do this crackly thing too! Carol, do you think Lyme can cause AED? I think that's what it's called--autoimmune ear dysfunction.
Posted by farah (Member # 8496) on :
Hi Jaime,
In my opinion Lyme definitely does cause this. My ear became crackly and brittle when I was really sick. With treatment it got better. The treatment needs to penetrate the ear cartilage and blood vessels, though. One of the people I work on with Lyme now has an ear that cracks and pops like a knuckle when I work on it. We can both hear it. I think it is a sign of the bacteria's presence in the cartilage.