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Title: Anyone have pressure/fullness in ears?
Post by: ilenav on July 17, 2014, 08:56:37 pm

I am newly diagnosed with Acoustic Neuroma and am trying to figure out if this pressure I have in my ears is related to the tumor or something else.  It comes and goes but it feels like I have water in my ears and kind of like they need to pop.  It will last a little while and then it clears.  It is very uncomfortable.  Anyone have something similar to this?

Title: Re: Anyone have pressure/fullness in ears?
Post by: Echo on July 18, 2014, 04:52:37 am

You mention "ears" in your post, do you have the pressure feeling in both ears or just your AN ear?

The pressure feeling you describe is a symptom that I had in my AN ear that would come and go very randomly during the year after my diagnosis.   About 5 months post Gamma Knife it was very bad for about a week and then it disappeared and has not returned during the following 5 months.

Cathie

Title: Re: Anyone have pressure/fullness in ears?
Post by: LakeErie on July 18, 2014, 11:13:35 am

Fullness in the ear is a common symptom of AN's. Sometimes treatment alleviates the pressure and fullness, sometimes it does not. If it remains after treatment, we get used to it and it is less noticeable.
A unilateral AN does not cause the symptom in both ears.

Title: Re: Anyone have pressure/fullness in ears?
Post by: ANGuy on July 18, 2014, 07:23:24 pm

I get fullness in my AN ear.  I was just diagnosed with a 1cm AN and am still weighing different options, so I haven't had any treatment yet.  All of my AN symptoms fluctuate from darn near zero to pretty darn annoying.  Tinnitus, fullness bordering on pain,  quality/quantity of hearing, and balance are my symptoms and they come and go, sometimes even in the same day.

Title: Re: Anyone have pressure/fullness in ears?
Post by: MG on July 19, 2014, 01:14:33 pm

Hi!
 I have the exact same symptoms  as ANGuy. I find Advil helps me a great deal. I take one in the morning and one in the late afternoon. I am on W&W and will find out on Tuesday if my MRI shows any growth
during the past year. Praying it hasn't grown!

Take care,
MG

Title: Re: Anyone have pressure/fullness in ears?
Post by: Crazycat on July 21, 2014, 03:21:49 pm

Pressure? Fullness? Are you kidding? My head feels like a lead-lined helium balloon......if that makes any sense.

Title: Re: Anyone have pressure/fullness in ears?
Post by: michelej on July 25, 2014, 07:55:57 pm

This was a main complaint I started seeing a doctor for. There was fullness, crackling when I swallowed or chewed, and then hearing loss. I figured I had "fluid" in my ears. Tried Sudafed. ENT said I had silent reflux (GE reflux). Some symptoms got better so maybe I had some reflux too but the hearing loss persisted. It was annoying to say the least. Fought with this for three years until I saw a different ENT who ordered another MRI which showed the AN. It was incorrectly not diagnosed three years before on MRI. I wish I had known it back then and it would have been taken care of. Just had surgery last Thurs to remove the AN. Doing well. Good luck