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  2. Why do my ears feel clogged? 5 Things you can do right now. - AOL

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    For example, very curvy ear canals, narrow ear canals, or surgical ears are more prone to earwax buildup. When wax builds up, it causes muffled hearing, tinnitus, or aural fullness (plugged-up ...

  3. Patulous Eustachian tube - Wikipedia

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    Patulous Eustachian tube is a physical disorder. The exact causes may vary depending on the person and are often unknown. [5] Weight loss is a commonly cited cause of the disorder due to the nature of the Eustachian tube itself and is associated with approximately one-third of reported cases. [6]

  4. Eustachian tube dysfunction - Wikipedia

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    If medical management fails, myringotomy, which is a surgical procedure in which an incision is made in the eardrum to drain pus from the middle ear or to relieve pressure caused by a large buildup of fluid, is indicated, and usually accompanied by the insertion of a tympanostomy tube. [10]

  5. Woman, 39, driven crazy by mystery whooshing noise in her ear ...

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    Woman suddenly starts hearing mystery whooshing noise in tune with her heartbeat. It was a symptom of pulsatile tinnitus and was related to a vein in her neck. Woman, 39, driven crazy by mystery ...

  6. Tinnitus - Wikipedia

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    Middle ear causes of pulsatile tinnitus include patulous eustachian tube, otosclerosis, or middle ear myoclonus (e.g., stapedial or tensor tympani myoclonus). The most common inner ear cause of pulsatile tinnitus is superior semicircular canal dehiscence. [58] Pulsatile tinnitus may also indicate idiopathic intracranial hypertension. [59]

  7. The truth behind that constant ringing in your ears and what ...

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    That ringing or buzzing in your ears at any given time is a symptom commonly known as tinnitus. According to the National Institutes of Health , "1 out of 10 US adults has experienced tinnitus in ...

  8. Idiopathic intracranial hypertension - Wikipedia

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    A large area on the back has been washed with an iodine-based disinfectant leaving brown colouration. In this image the person is seated upright, which can make the procedure easier to perform but makes any measurement of the opening pressure unreliable. The first step in symptom control is drainage of cerebrospinal fluid by lumbar puncture.

  9. Diplacusis - Wikipedia

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    If one ear has normal thresholds while the other has sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL), diplacusis may be present, as much as 15–20% (for example 200 Hz one ear => 240 Hz in the other). [citation needed] The pitch may be difficult to match because the SNHL ear hears the sound "fuzzy". Bilateral SNHL gives less diplacusis, but pitch ...