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Aug 21 10 12:10 AM

I noticed recently that when I swallow, even just the slightest swallowing motion while not actually swallowing anything, I hear a "click" near my ears or in my ears. It almost sounds like there is liquid in my ears. I have tried the blowing air while holding nose trick but didn't help. I went to ENT, who gladly took my copay, but didn't find any liquid in my ears. He found two small hairs that I must've stuck in there with Q-tips.

When I swallow I can hear the click/crunch noise in my right ear followed soon after by my left ear. It is really annoying. Just add it to my list of problems.

I don't know if it is TMJ related. I went to TMJ dentist and he fitted me for a mouth piece. I decided against it for the time being. Was expensive and I wasn't convinced that he felt I had much in the way of TMJ. Most peole have pain, which I do not.

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Aug 21 10 12:40 AM

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My ears have always done this. It's a good thing.
Check out this thread.

http://thosewithvisualsno.../reply/32506#reply-32506

Now try scuba.

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Aug 21 10 1:15 AM

Mine just started recently. I might try anti-histimines but I doubt they will help. I figured it was something simple but the ENT had no suggestions.

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I have it somtimes not allways

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Aug 21 10 3:29 AM

right now i dont have it, but when i travel a long time from place to place by a vehicle , in some point i feel like i have plugs/cork in my ears and its like i hear a bit weaker than before.
swallowing start making noise of click in my ears, sometimes the swallow take off the plugs from my ears and i suddenly hear louder.
another trick for taking the plugs off is that i block the nostrils (in the nose) and then I blow out in force air from the nostrils. (it works

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Aug 22 10 12:45 PM

I hear clicking and popping as well when swallowing.
I was told it was fluids in ear due to sinuses.It is annoying.
Sometimes I can hear like the ocean in them with no
differences in physical activity,ect.

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Aug 22 10 6:29 PM

I have the exact same phenomenon. Like you, I don't even have to swallow to hear the noise. I just make the slight motion of swallowing and I hear it. Mine started only after I got VS, which disproves what 2fries said about this being a normal thing. I realize that most people might hear something when they swallow, but this is a louder, different noise, and I only got it when I got VS. I have grown used to this swallowing crunchy noise and hardly think about it - but I know I didn't have it before.

Have you been diagnosed with TMJ?

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Byron

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Aug 23 10 1:13 AM

Just my $0.02

My Jaw used to click when I swallowed.

It started happening after I was hit (pretty hard) by a basketball on the underside of my chin. The jaw clicking continued for about six years after the injury and will still happen every now and then.

It was about 15 years ago but from memory the Dr said the injury weakened the joint where my jaw attaches to the rest of my skull.

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Aug 23 10 1:43 AM

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I didn't say it was a normal thing, I said it was a good thing.
I won't really be able to chime in much on anything normal.
{shrugs}

As far as I can tell I was born seeing static, and I was born being able to open my eustation tubes at will.
I can hold them open as well with almost no effort. It makes my breathing sound like Darth Vader.

I've never encountered a downside to it. I can scuba dive without having to evacuate my ears descending or ascending. Same with flying or driving through the mountains.

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It's a good thing.

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Aug 24 10 12:18 AM

21stlvlrogue wrote:
I have the exact same phenomenon. Like you, I don't even have to swallow to hear the noise. I just make the slight motion of swallowing and I hear it. Mine started only after I got VS, which disproves what 2fries said about this being a normal thing. I realize that most people might hear something when they swallow, but this is a louder, different noise, and I only got it when I got VS. I have grown used to this swallowing crunchy noise and hardly think about it - but I know I didn't have it before.

Have you been diagnosed with TMJ?

I noticed it after I got back from my China trip. I was doing hyperbaric treatment and I noticed that one of my ears never cleared after the pressure was increased and then after the pressure returned to normal. Then they both started doing this clicking noise. It seems to vary in intensity as well. I know I would have noticed it before. It sounds like liquid. I have seen some conditions related to the inner ear and liquid. Not sure what to do at this point.

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Aug 24 10 11:49 AM

I’ve always had ‘problems’ with my ears. Usually if I’m swimming and stuff I get water trapped in them. Also, I can move my ears and I can usually hear crackling/water in them. I think it’s just ear fluid stuff. It doesn’t bother me much. Probably sinus related.

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Aug 27 10 2:23 PM

maybe "click" was the wrong term. more like a crackling sound from both sides. for a moment from time to time it completely goes away or it's so quiet i can't hear it, then it returns with a vengeance. my jaw also crakles especially when i yawn real wide.

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YoungMale wrote:
I’ve always had ‘problems’ with my ears. Usually if I’m swimming and stuff I get water trapped in them. Also, I can move my ears and I can usually hear crackling/water in them. I think it’s just ear fluid stuff. It doesn’t bother me much. Probably sinus related.

I had a lot of problems with my ears when I was a kid. Brutal ear aches, tubes inserted, (and then un-inserted, there was no disolving crap back then they just said, "Only going to look that's all", then yanked one of them out while holding me screaming self long enough for them to get at the other one" {major shudder}).

I now get water trapped in them almost every time I swim but I figured out a certain sideways tilted head roation thing that drains them after a few swirls.

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Aug 30 10 12:14 AM

anyone tried the "ear popper" product? apparently it requires a prescription.

http://www.claflinequip.c...ac=56&zmap=CESS-90642-00

there is a video on the right side. it does look interesting.

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Aug 31 10 6:43 PM

Hmm no, but you can exhale through your nose while squeezing your nose and that kinda does the same thing, although it is hard to swallow while doing that. I just tried doing it myself and it makes ear pop too lol. I watched that video, and it says it gives your ears a feeling of fullness, well doing that exhale through nose gives that same feeling.

edit again, if anyone else tries that btw, do you get air coming out from the side of your eyes? and does it come out both or just one?

Edited 2 times by PhilipGriffiths Aug 31 10 6:47 PM.

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Aug 31 10 9:24 PM

well, so i used an oxygen concentrator i have to try to do the same thing as the earpopper. it's much different that doing it yourself holding your nose. i tried it last night and it seemed to help a little bit but not much. i figured i would try again in the morning. so i woke up today and the crunching was GONE!!! but, and it's a big BUT i could tell my hearing wasn't right. i could hear ok but when i spoke i couldn't hear my own voice properly. so i pinched my nose and blew air. i could hear the liquid in my middle ear moving. i cleared the passage so i could hear myself again, but now the crunching was back again. i have definitely got some liquid in my middle ear. i just had a recent bad viral infection and that is a cause of middle ear liquid. i am going to see an ENT in morning to see if there is anyway to drain it. mystery solved but i haven't seen an effective treatment other than surgery and i don't think it's worth cutting into my ear drum.

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Sep 12 10 2:07 AM

Update - The liquid in my ears seems to be subsiding. I have been taking anti-fungals for a separate issue and I don't know if they might be helping. Apparently middle ear infections can also be fungal but I doubt mine is. Maybe it's just takes time for the liquid to resolve.

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Mar 26 11 5:35 PM

How is your ear popping now, needhelp, has it subsisted ? If so what helped , thanks !

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Mar 26 11 5:37 PM

Wow, that was an old post. As I mentioned in another recent thread it seems to have gotten better. Check out the other thread for details.

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RolandCura

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Mar 26 11 6:18 PM

and whats the name of the new thread ? txs

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Mar 27 11 1:07 AM

Let's focus on and solve the crunchy ear symptom (1,2)

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