jessejean
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Greetings...I haven't been on the board for two years...but I'm back - the passion can never die in a diver, it is always lurking in the heart, wether you are in the water or not.
My question: For about 6 months, I have had a pounding in my left ear that I can hear most of my waking days. It is my heart beat, and it sounds like rushing blood..."pssshhh" "pssshhh". It is enough to make anyone go insane. I can mostly hear it when I try to go to sleep (which is really hard when you have a pounding in your head). I talked to my general doctor and he said maybe fluid in the ear and use some hydrogen peroxide. Didn't work. When my heart is beating harder, it is louder, so it has to have something to do wtih my blood...maybe a vein that is close to my ear drum? I was diving a lot last summer/fall here in California, and at depth my ears would ache from the cold, but in 15 years of diving I have never had a problem equalizing. I don't even know if this is dive related.
Please help...I feel like a schitzo hearing voices all day that no one else can hear. Any one experinced this?
Thanks - Jessejean
My question: For about 6 months, I have had a pounding in my left ear that I can hear most of my waking days. It is my heart beat, and it sounds like rushing blood..."pssshhh" "pssshhh". It is enough to make anyone go insane. I can mostly hear it when I try to go to sleep (which is really hard when you have a pounding in your head). I talked to my general doctor and he said maybe fluid in the ear and use some hydrogen peroxide. Didn't work. When my heart is beating harder, it is louder, so it has to have something to do wtih my blood...maybe a vein that is close to my ear drum? I was diving a lot last summer/fall here in California, and at depth my ears would ache from the cold, but in 15 years of diving I have never had a problem equalizing. I don't even know if this is dive related.
Please help...I feel like a schitzo hearing voices all day that no one else can hear. Any one experinced this?
Thanks - Jessejean