shaking noise in my ear, dizziness, no headache Posted: 12-20-07 20:22pm
Hi, I have a shaking noise in my ear, like
someone is shaking a carton of milk,
followed by dizziness. I have had ear
problems in the past, but this does not
quite fit the description of veritgo etc
and I also have a pain in my neck. My ear
does not hurt or feel full. Yes it is
worse when I move my head quickly. I have
had similar syptoms before when I had an
ear infection, but I am otherwise well at
the moment. I do have lupus, but this does
not fit with the symptoms. I have had this
sensation several times before but it
seems to be getting more frequent, and I
don't know what is causing it. Sometimes
it does happen when I have a severe
headache- but I don't at the moment. In
the past, as a child, I had grommets and
my adnoids out as I had constant ear
infections but I have only had one ear
infection since and that was 7 years ago.
I am on Plaquinol, effexol, the pill and
antihistamines.
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young Girl
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Posted: 12-20-07 20:29pm
maybe you have water in your ear?
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florida288
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Joined: 14 Dec 2007 Posts: 38 Location: Port Orange, Florida
Posted: 12-20-07 21:01pm
That sounds like something I've had for
about a year or 2. I started hearing a
sort of short buzzing sound off and on and
realized it coincided with moving my head
or turning or even looking from side to
side, and it was accompanied by a brief
feeling of dizziness.
My dr sent me to a dizziness and hearing
clinic for testing, which was weird. They
put a big helmet on my head with a camera
focused on one eye. They had me read and
then watch things move on a computer
screen. Then they had my lie on a table
with my head over the edge resting in the
tester's hands. She moved my head around.
She also had me look to one side at a 45
degree angle and sit up.
All of this was to see if I had Nystagmus,
which they didn't mention at the time.
Picture a cartoon character with their
eyeballs twirling around. It's actually
just a slight vibrating rotation. A few
days later they called to set up an
appointment to have my "crystals
rearranged". I was like "What?"
It turns out that there are crystals in a
little sack in our ears. Who knew?
Sometimes some can migrate out and get
into the semicircular canals and cause
dizziness and sometimes sound effects.
The Nystagmus is a marker for it. The
treatment is just manipulating the head
position around in different ways to try
to get them out of the canals. They also
gave me some anti dizziness exercises to
do.
