posted
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?
Posts: 151 | From ohio | Registered: May 2007
| IP: Logged |
Carol in PA
Frequent Contributor (5K+ posts)
Member # 5338
posted
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
Posts: 6947 | From Lancaster, PA | Registered: Feb 2004
| IP: Logged |
posted
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.
Posts: 422 | From Luck home | Registered: Sep 2005
| IP: Logged |
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.
Farah
Posts: 208 | From New Mexico | Registered: Dec 2005
| IP: Logged |
The Lyme Disease Network is a non-profit organization funded by individual donations. If you would like to support the Network and the LymeNet system of Web services, please send your donations to:
The
Lyme Disease Network of New Jersey 907 Pebble Creek Court,
Pennington,
NJ08534USA http://www.lymenet.org/
UBBFriend: Email this page to someone!
Printer-friendly view of this topic