Aa
Aa
A
A
A
Close
Avatar universal

Ringing & Noise intolerance

Hello All, I know many of you probably have to deal with the ringing in your ears and possibly noise intolerance as well. But my question is this; has anyone ever been told what about Chiari causes this? Just curious...

Wolf
9 Responses
Sort by: Helpful Oldest Newest
1144229 tn?1293437082
I have either ringing or buzzing it goes back and forth
Helpful - 0
Avatar universal
Not really how I would describe it. Perhaps. I described it to my wife last night as just a really sharp aching pain. Cold definately 'does' make this pain worse.

As for figuring it out, I agree. Some Docs mean well, but how hard do you really work on a problem that you do not understand because you don't deal with it?

Wolf
Helpful - 0
620923 tn?1452915648
COMMUNITY LEADER
Well Wolf, the cold affects me, I just don't see a difference with the ringing with the cold...could also be due to the stinosis is compressing the area....mayb once that is corrected the cold will be more noticable?

Does that ear pain feel like someone is jabbing u with an ice pick?


IF we don't figure out what and how this affects us , who will?

"selma"
Helpful - 0
Avatar universal

Sounds like, at least with the three of us, the ringing is common. Selma, considering the neck spasams here your idea of constricting the nerve would make sense. But then if cold doesn't affect you that way and Ray didn't mention cold effecting it either... dunno maybe all chiarians are susceptable to similar symptoms but are not nessasaryly effected the same by those symptoms??? Or perhaps it is different degrees of DDD and or other associated problems. OH well, done being a scientist, not enough raw data to really compare.... The nerve problem does make perfect sense though being as we all have this same droupy brain problem sqishing [is that a word] things in our neck.

BTW- I do get pain in my ears at times as well. It does seem to be worse when the ringing is bad.

Wolf
Helpful - 0
999891 tn?1407276076
I have this ringing, worse at night.....I have it for many years. I also have a full sensation in my ears from time to time but I don't think it makes the reining worse.....

Ray
Helpful - 0
620923 tn?1452915648
COMMUNITY LEADER
Wolf...I have it all the time.,.....it had stopped the first 2 months post op, but came back with a vengeance....I have either ringing or buzzing it goes back and forth, but there is always some type of noise in my ears.....I also noticed I get pains in my ear as well.

As for the cold doesn't  it cause the nerves to tighten? Constrict? Could that be the reason it seems to be bothering u more now?

The weather has not changed the effect on mine.

"selma"

Helpful - 0
Avatar universal
That is pretty much what I was told a few months ago Ray. Not my Dr but his PA did tell us that the ringing is a very common Chiari symptom but didn't know why. What selma says here really does make a lot of sense to me. Dr M seems to have answered that.

So why does it get worse with this cold? or perhaps it's not the cold; maybe it is just the timing and the cold is a coinsidence.

Just how common is the ringing? How many here deal with ringing in the ears?

Wolf
Helpful - 0
999891 tn?1407276076
The only thing the Doctors had to say about the tinnitus when I asked about it was that you will just have to get used to it. I was told after a hearing test that I have intolerance of certain tones but again the Doctors did not say it is due to Chiari.


Ray
Helpful - 0
620923 tn?1452915648
COMMUNITY LEADER
Well I think we all heard the expression u r on my last nerve......this next bit of info was copied from a report by Dr Milhorat at TCI: written in an article by Rick Labuda
*******************************************************************************************************
the hearing problems associated with Chiari are considered to be senorineural (SNHI), meaning that they arise from problems with the eighth cranial nerve, the inner ear, or the brain auditory processing centers, as opposed to the tiny follicles in the ear which are critical for hearing.

**************************************************************************************************

So, if chiari is affect our 8th nerve it is responsible for our hearing issues, be the a loss of hearing or intolerances to sound and the nagging ring or buzzing we have in our ears......JMHO

"selma"
Helpful - 0
Have an Answer?

You are reading content posted in the Chiari Malformation Community

Top Neurology Answerers
620923 tn?1452915648
Allentown, PA
987762 tn?1671273328
Australia
1756321 tn?1547095325
Queensland, Australia
Learn About Top Answerers
Didn't find the answer you were looking for?
Ask a question
Popular Resources
Find out how beta-blocker eye drops show promising results for acute migraine relief.
In this special Missouri Medicine report, doctors examine advances in diagnosis and treatment of this devastating and costly neurodegenerative disease.
Here are 12 simple – and fun! – ways to boost your brainpower.
Discover some of the causes of dizziness and how to treat it.
Discover the common causes of headaches and how to treat headache pain.
Two of the largest studies on Alzheimer’s have yielded new clues about the disease