Hi I have a collection of weird symptoms, I've had them for years, let me know what you think, here goes: occasionally my ear(s) (recently it's been the left) feels like i have a finger in it, in a sense, because I'll hear my voice extremely loud in that ear, although it doesn't feel clogged and I have no hearing loss. That's the most annoying symptom. Other things are I hear a loud clicking when I swallow, and rarely, some mild pain in the ear. Trying to "pop" my ears by holding my nose and blowing air makes it even worse, usually what I try to do is hold my nose and suck in air really hard, but that only fixes it for a few seconds. If I tilt my head forward far, or backward far, it goes away completely. If only I could walk around on my hands. Also eating helps it go away. It seems like warm weather aggravates it too, or even just exercise, so it's not necessarily an allergy, I mean I could exercise in the winter, like go to the gym, and it would happen. In fact every time I go to the gym it happens, and doesn't usually go away until I've cooled off and had some drink/food. I have tried to use "swim ear" thinking maybe it's some liquid stuck in the Eustachian tube linking vibration from my bones to the ear, but the stuff doesn't usually help, occasionally it does, it's hard to say. When I was a kid, I would hold my nose when I sneezed, is it possible I damaged something in my ear?
It's the sort of thing people will just be like "deal with it," but when you're unable to have a normal conversation because hearing your own voice so loud is so distracting and makes it difficult to hear other things (not because of hearing loss, just because my voice is so loud to me!) it is EXTREMELY annoying. I'll make excuses to go to the bathroom and lean over and try sucking in air or swallowing water, or using that muscle in the back/roof of your mouth so it sounds like air is rushing through your ears (probably only a few of you know what I'm referring to here) to try to make it go away, but really I'm just at it's mercy, hoping it goes away. It really does ruin my day, and lately it's been happening a lot, probably because it's getting warmer. And one more random thing about it, is on one or two occasions, it seemed like loud noises, or really any noises, produced the strangest feeling in my ear, almost like a... sinusoidal fluctuation in pressure.. but that doesn't happen often.
HELP!!!