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    How do I get a doctor to take me seriously?

    In August I followed bad advice and did a sinus rinse and then blew the water back into my middle ears using the valsalva maneuver. I managed to overfill the middle ear and felt a twinge of pain lasting 3 seconds. The next day I noticed my left ear screaming, so I stupidly did the same thing...
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    Gave myself a Perilymphatic Fistula (PLF). I need help

    The thing that floors me about this is that when I wake up in the morning it seems relatively quiet, then an hour or so later it picks up to screaming. Chewing, nodding, talking seems to exacerbate it (all of which I can't seem to avoid doing within that first hour). I have pain/heat going on...
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    Gave myself a Perilymphatic Fistula (PLF). I need help

    So I saw the Neurotologist. He basically said he didn't see anything on the MRI and that if he did surgery he could make it worse. He didn't think it was lymphatic (so maybe a fistula just not a peri-lymphatic one) because I'm not experiencing dizziness with exertion. He seemed to want me to...
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    Gave myself a Perilymphatic Fistula (PLF). I need help

    Hi all, I'm not a diver but I managed to damage myself by giving myself something similar to barotrauma in my left middle ear. Backstory: I inflamed my eustachian tubes and gave myself Tinnitus by doing a sinus wash wrong. The ENT I saw offered no help or explanation (I had to diagnose...
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