Okay, well this started about 2 months ago, I started getting really lightheaded & thought I was going to faint. I panicked and called the ambulance. 2 days before that incident I had visited my doctor because of pulsatile tinnitus ( this swooshing noise that goes along with my heartbeat) she said it could be an infection.

Ever since I went to the hospital the light headedness is still here. 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Especially when I am out somewhere, I feel unbalanced. And I also feel brain fog…I feel confused and I forget stuff sometimes. I have really bad derealization.
I feel so alone, especially when doctors can’t figure out what I have.
I have had MRI’s and MRA’s, CT scans, and Carotid Ultrasounds. Since I thought I had narrowing somewhere because I have high cholesterol but not high blood pressure.

All of this is causing me stress, which is causing me really bad headaches and heart flutters. I’m going to a Cardiologist on Monday and If there’s nothing wrong then I am going to my ENT.

Does anyone think this could be a middle ear problem?

No rude answers please.

Every time I swallow or yawn my ears make sounds like a bone cracking. I don’t feel any fullness in the ear and there’s no pain and they don’t feel like I need to pop them… in fact its just the same as normal and my hearing’s fine but this cracking is driving me crazy. I try to pop them by holding my nose and blowing but they are impossible to pop all the way and after a lot of hard work they just click and go all echoey… the sound like when you need to pop your ears!! They will never go any further. The GP gave me Sudafed decongestents and they don’t seem to work. I have also had tinnitus for a year but I don’t know if this is related as I suffered from that long before I heard this cracking noise. If anyone has any answers thatt would be great thank you.
I didn’t have any tubes put in my ear as a kid. I’ve been told that maybe I need to ask the doctor to drain fluid from my ears and that’ll stop it… is that right anybody know?