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April 24, 2008

I have finally been given an answer!

by @ 10:47 am. Filed under Sounds, Experiences, Discussion

…for what the ‘breathing through my ears’ feeling actually is!

I went in to the specialist yesterday for my first review since the operation in January and there was good and bad news.

Good news: My ear drum is healed. and I have been given an explanation to what this sensation I and everyone else on here has been having!

Bad News: My left ear drum is healed but is retracted again and it is inevitable that fluid will build up again very soon, and they dont want to risk putting tubes back in as my drums wont be able to take it, and the fluid will detieorate the middle ear bones and my residule hearing will suffer regardless!

Also… there is no cure for the sensation of breathing through your ears!…

What it is: My estachian tubes are in a constant state of dysfunction, they are always closed and in a constant state of pressure. I dont breath or hear or feel the way whats considered to be normal. My estachian tubes are under developed. This breathing through my ears is when the tubes open for a brief moment and actually function properly as they are supposed to!!!!

But because I have lived with this all my life, this feeling is hurtfull and uncomfortable. when I pinch my nose and suck in to make the discomfort go away, all im doing is putting my estachian tubes back into a state of dysfunction, which is what im used to and what feels normal to me!

He was honest and he said, he wouldnt give me false hopes, he said there is no cure whatso ever and that I will just have to learn to live with it.

He said it is common for people who have PET or ETD (Palatous estachian tube, or estachian tube dysfunction) I have the latter and this is my situation.

yours may be different to mine, but to be honest I dont mind that there is no cure, I wish there was but at least I have an answer :) :)

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