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I have this terrifying symptom when laying down. It is a loud echoing noise that comes out of my ears that sounds like something is about to explode.
It gets louder and louder and then dies down. I don't know what it is but evertime I get it I think it is the end and I am going to have a stroke. Anyone else?
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I have had ear noise (buzzing, humming, flapping) for a couple years now.
I guess not as loud as you but I hear it at night when all is quiet. Right ear only. Sometimes it sounds like something is flapping in there. But mostly it's a buzzing, actually two tones of buzzing, one is steady, the other comes and goes.
Recently it changed so that when I lay on my left side I don't hear the buzz. But if I lay on my right side I hear it for a minute and then it dies down.
I believe ear noise was my earliest symptom of Lyme. I'm on amoxicillin now and that's what made the ear improve (after about 6 weeks).
I doubt anything will explode in your ear but do have your doc take a peek!
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Ohhh. Sorry to hear that. It can be very difficult.
It's called tinnitus and can have many causes.
I'll run through a lot here, but first, can you call your doctor? You might need a specialist.
When this happens, REST, be calm and still. Gentle music (but not with headphones) might help divert your attention and can settle heart beat. Mozart is the best for that - or music in 3/4 time - waltzes.
Have you had any recent noise exposure - or using ear buds or headphones to listen to music ?
From now on, be sure to use ear plugs when around a blender, vacuum, a hairdryer or loud dishwasher - or any other loud stuff.
It is best to avoid all ear or headphones and let your ears rest. they may have been injured somehow.
Antibiotics can make ears more suseptable (sp?) to noise damage. And abx can also cause tinnitus (but so can infections). If caused by an abx, you can ask to switch to a different one.
The sooner the offending agent is discovered and stopped, the better chance for this not to become chronic. You do NOT want this to become permanent, believe me.
First, have you had any changes in medicines, OTC stuff, or new foods?
Have you overexerted yourself ? (Increased activity with excitatory NMDA receptors may be to blame - magnesium can help to bring that down.)
Increases - or decreases - in some hormones can trigger this, too. Check thyroid, blood sugar levels and be sure you have good adrenal support.
Liver support matters and this can also be caused by too many toxins in the system.
No aspartame/nutrasweet/Equal or MSG, I hope.
Does magnesium help?
If you have a LLMD, please call their office. If not, can you consult an ENT or neurotologist who is LL ?
Also to consider are changes in circulation. Gingko helps some in that regard and has helped many with tinnitus if the reason had to do with decreased circulation.
For myself, ginkgo turns up the volume. I think that is because, in my case, I've got too much neuro-excitability going on already from lyme toxins, etc. And, I've got some bone stuff going on in the inner ear canal.
You might give ginkgo a try - start slow, though.
And good sleep - enough of it - is important now to help the ears heal. Resting/sleeping with the head of the bed raised at 20- 30 degrees is the best angle for the ears to get some circulation.
This thread might interest you - you can check meds on some lists:
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Topic: TINNITUS: Ringing Between The Ears; Vestibular, Balance, Hearing with compiled links
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Thanks for your replies. I am on no antibiotics presently so I can't blame this symptom on any drug.
Thanks Keebler for all the information. Yes internal sounds are loud. The other night when laying down I could actually hear blood flowing through my head-very scary.
I will be starting antibiotics next week after being off of them for a long time and I hope this along with twenty five other symptoms gets better.
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amkdiaries ,
please be sure your doctor knows all about the ear symptoms. It might make a difference in the medicines prescribed. He may also send you to a specialist (as not everything is lyme-related).
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I have something similar. Its almost as if my hearing blinks off and on,like a quick "woosh" or vacuume seal type of sound, and my brain blinks off and on also. This only seems to happen when I am laying down and it scares the liver outta me. It normally happens in the mornings and it DOES feel "stroke" ish. Nobody, not even my ENT neuro, has ever heard of it. I haven't mentioned it to my LLMD but will on my next visit...if I remember.
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I too have experienced this! At one point it was so loud I thought I might die too.
I found it helped a little if I layed flat on my back. Hang in there:)
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I sometimes hear things that I think may be auditory hallucinations.
It's usually as I'm falling asleep or just waking up. Someone saying my name, or the doorbell, or a loud noise.
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Carol,
This happens frequently for "normal" people who don't even have any health issues.
I have to track down an article about it and will come back later with that.
It's really very fascinating. I'm housesitting at a house where the sound of the AC sounds like a radio station playing a few houses down.
For some of these, if a particular frequency of sound comes from, say, the kitchen faucet, it may trigger a part of the brain where the sound of the phone ringing will "light up" and it will literally sound like your phone ringing.
While resting and with no stimulus, there are other explanations that are very real.
Others, too, can be tinnitus changing around - or NMDA receptors just too wired.
When just falling asleep or waking up, there is yet another explanation.
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