What Does Roaring In The Ears Indicate?

Posted on Fri, 13 Oct 2017

Question: I have a constant roaring in my R ear(heartbeat) type sound. What is it?

Answered by Dr. Priyanka Aggarwal (14 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Tinnitus

Detailed Answer:
Hi
Welcome to Healthcare Magic and thanks for putting up the query
You are having tinnitus. It can be due to wax in the ears or any acute loud noise exposure or neural loss.
Please tell me if you have any relevant history.
Any history of nasal infection or throat infection in the recent past?
For how long are you having these symptoms?
Any hearing difficulty?
You should get a pure tone audiometry done.
Follow up with the required information so that I can suggest you better.
Take care
Thanks and regards

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Follow up: Dr. Priyanka Aggarwal (11 minutes later)

I have constant post nasal drainage. I have a history of having my ears lanced 20 times during my child hood for ear infections, I have had these for about 10 years on and off.

Answered by Dr. Priyanka Aggarwal (11 hours later)

Brief Answer:
Eustachian tube blockage with tinnitus

Detailed Answer:
Hi
Thanks for the information.
The ear symptoms can be due to eustachian tube blockage caused by nasal pathology.
You should get a xray paranasal sinuses done and a pure tone audiometry done.
For how long are you having these symptoms and what medicine have you been taking so far?

Regards

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Vaishalee Punj

Follow up: Dr. Priyanka Aggarwal (9 hours later)

I have had these symptoms for a couple of years. I have tried Flonase, Nascort, Zyrtec, Clartin, Benadryl. Thanks for information.

Answered by Dr. Priyanka Aggarwal (4 hours later)

Brief Answer:
Eustachian tube blockage with tinnitus

Detailed Answer:
Hi
my advice is you should get investigated for proper diagnosis and subsequently treatment should be done.
Get the investigations done and follow up with the reports
You can use nasal spray and take steam inhalation. This will help to relieve the symptoms temporarily.
Avoid excessive XXXXXXX use or ear phones usage.
I would be delighted to help you in future too.
Regards

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Kampana