I have a friend who doesn't have meneieres but she has been having inner ear pain. She went to massage therapist and the therapist worked on pressure points in her shoulder blade area and the ear pain went away.
I'm glad that your friend found the answer to their ear issues. Hopefully others will exhonerate this as a cause of their ear issues early on in their condition.
Hi all, I'm new here and recently been diagnosed with meniere's disease yet to get relief. Thus I've done quite a bit of research online and still working on it. Maybe this can help you. The Sternocleidomastoid (SCM) muscle, if it's tight or has trigger points it can cause ear fullness/pressure and hearing loss. There is a chance that the side where you have hearing loss or ear fulness could have a tight SCM muscle. It would be worth a shot to go to a good Registered Massage Therapist (RMT) in your area and ask for an SCM massage then see how you feel, see if your hearing loss improves or not. Links: http://thewellnessdigest.com/sternocleidomastoid-muscles-affects-head-eyes-sinus-ears-throat-pain-dizziness-whiplash/ http://massagetherapy.careerpathblog.com/sternocleido-what-part-1-of-4/#comments Muscular or skeletal imbalances in other parts of can cause a chain reaction and if you go look at yourself naked in a mirror and try to look for asymmetry it can give you a clue. I've also heard subclavian steal syndrome can cause vertigo as well as thoracic outlet syndrome since you guys mentioning the shoulders these syndromes are in the vicinity. Take a look at the info online and maybe it will help you.
That's an interesting link. In my situation the asymmetry seems to have impacted my jaw causing inflammation of the inner ear.
OMG, you sound like me! ALL my issues are on the left side! 1990- Classic migraines begin, but sporadic- maybe 3 a year. ALL on left side. 2000- neck pain left side, called a "trigger point" in the muscle. If I press on it, feels like stabbing electric shocks. Still here to this day, and all the muscles are always tense. Massage therapy does not work them out. No history of car accident or other issue to start this up. 2006- torticollis (sp?) left side neck. Cannot move neck- given valium. Off work a week. Finally went to a chiro, got an adjustment and it went away. 1990-2012- still having sporadic migraines. Not linked to cycle, but have been unable my whole life to take birth control pills, as any and all of them will trigger migraine with aura. Migraines only 1-2x a year, so not really an issue. Always on left side. 1/2013- Notice a slight ringing in my left ear. Not horrible, but just noticing. 3/2013- Ringing increasing, is constant. Also, some left-sided facial muscle/bone aching/soreness. Feels like sinusitis, but that is ruled out. 5/2013- See ENT for left sided tinnitus, facial pain. Audiogram normal. Put camera up my left nose into sinus to examine. Normal. 5/13-8/14- symptoms the same, but stable. Tinnitus seems to increase with "attacks" of facial pain. Left eye irritated and watery, left sinus always mildly clogged. 8/14- Now having defined "attacks" of intense left facial/nasal pressure with increased tinnitus and a feeling of disequilibrium (not vertigo). Back to allergist who says Vestibular Migraine/TMJ- off to neuro consult. 11/2014- Attacks have become daily, and dizziness is chronic. Neuro trials migraine preventatives- says I am having Basilar migraine with cluster-headache features. Nortriptyline makes the imbalance worse! Taking propranolol now, but she wants me to switch to Verapamil. Says new style of migraines due to perimenopause. 12/2014- Back to ENT for audiogram. Normal and unchanged from 5/2013. He says cluster headaches. 1/2015- saw TMJ specialist. Splint made, and he wants me to have tomography done. Waiting a few months as I need to get Brain MRI and bills are piling up. 3/2015- Finally had Brain MRI, without contrast. Perfectly normal. Propranolol and migraine diet are working. No "attacks", imbalance appears to be gone! 4/28/15- Sitting at work, feeling fine, so symptoms. Left ear starts ringing VERY loud- much louder than normal and I go deaf in that ear in the span of minutes. Off to ENT- audiogram shows "moderately severe sudden sensoneural hearing loss". Given Prednisone burst pack. Hearing improves to 80% in 3 days. ~95% normal (subjectively) in two weeks. Ringing still there, but has died down to almost baseline over the two weeks. Also was feeling imbalanced, "swimmy" headed during this time, but no vertigo. Today- dr. says possible cochlear hydrops, or early/atypical Meniere's, which led me to this message board. I am scheduled for a VNG/ENG in early June. I still need to get the tomography for the TMJ dentist, but with all these medical bills, that is still on hold. Yep, my left side is costing me a fortune!!