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Hi everyone. I haven't been diagnosed but seeing my doctor asap. I have been getting these spells of ear fullness/loudness/airplane/roaring sound with dizziness. Last night I felt loud vibrations in my ear too like noises. I've had plenty of vertigo spells before too. However today, I woke up with the worst ear fullness ever. I can barely hear anything. I'm seeing my doctor next week and booked in to see an audiologist next week also, but right now I'm freaked out!

Everything is really muffled and my ears are full and like a monotone sound through them. Has anyone dealt with this? I thought I'd be able to sleep off this attack but I've woken up worse :( I'm so scared it's sudden hearing loss

Edit: adding that certain angles can alleviate the full feeling a little bit like putting my head down while sitting down but not sure why

Update: saw an audiologist, my hearing is perfect and so is my eardrums but being referred to an ENT over the next few weeks in case its inner ear issues such as eustachian tube dysfunction

Hi! I have horrible ocd/anxiety/panic attacks and have been recommended betablockers by so many people. however when I look them up, it recommends not using them if you have asthma. I've had childhood asthma which then worsened as an adult thanks to GERD/Silent LPR. I'm in a pretty messy state mentally lately and I'm not a fan of woozy meds like xanax and a bad history with antidepressants. Its a shame because betablockers seemed perfect for the panic and high BP from anxiety I experience.

What do betablockers do to affect asthma? Is it worth trying? Is there an alternative? Thanks :)

Does anyone get a feeling of ear pressure + vibrating that spreads to the head? Like a fuzzy head feeling kind of floating then making you dizzy. I recently tried to stop PPIs as mine (been on many, currently on panteprazole) have been doing nothing for so long and my gastroenterologist didn't intend for me to be on them forever so I tried to stop. I now feel super dizzy, full/pressure airplane kind of ears, and my head is fuzzy, jelly legs too. It kind of alleviates immediately when lying down at angles.

Could this be rebound reflux after making it's way to my ears? This happened to me last month too and an emergency doc said my ears were clear (from a quick outside scope check, wasnt an ENT to properly check) but he thought it was high blood pressure (I have awful white coat syndrome lol) I don't think it is, knowing my usual BP symptoms anyways. I've been freaking out all day and it finally clicked that hold on - could this all be acid related because I tried to stop PPIs?!

Have you ever had these symptoms? I feel like I'm going crazy :(

Does anyone else ever get heavy, thick phlegm waking up in the morning, after meals (especially dinner) or at night? I have asthma so I've been putting my phlegm and wheezing down to that but now its so reoccurring daily I'm wondering if this is actually GERD. If it is GERD then it's exacerbating my asthma :( I have a 1.5 cm (or maybe 2) hiatal hernia and I've noticed bland diet and PPIs do nothing. Im genuinely so sick of PPIs now because they havent done a thing but the phlegm is crazy, it has me wheezing daily and coughing it up ALL the time. Is it just me?

Edit: wanted to add I take new maintenance inhalers for asthma which havent made any of this go away which has me wondering if it is just the GERD and not asthma

Hi! I have lifelong OCD but in recent years and mostly recent months, I have had horrible health related ocd. I have a background of being in hospitals alot throughout my life. But recently I'm just too hyperaware about everything in my body, especially my heart. I was in ER in October for vertigo which turned out to be weird heart signals and kept overnight for a monitor - and in the end it was all just low potassium. Ever since, i have been PETRIFIED and overly aware of my heart. I'm 27, but have a family history of heart issues (50s onwards) I have a very high resting heart rate too, which scares me a lot - i have GERD and asthma and terrible anxiety so it may be all of these but my brain has convinced me it's heart failure or a blocked artery as I get high blood pressure too.

I never know the line between talking/texting family and friends in a panic that my heart is probably going or if I need to go to ER. Example this morning, I woke up with this weird feeling in my stomach like somethings wrong and everytime I stand or walk I feel like I'm being pulled down like weighed down. My brain resorts to STROKE, HEART ATTACK, it's the feeling of impending doom, it's over, ring someone. But I do this so often, I'm like the boy who cried wolf and it's making everyone very sick of me too.

I genuinely don't know the line between somethings wrong and I do need help and just anxiety/ocd messing with my head since I'm too hyperaware of my own body. I don't know what to do. I could tell my doctor I think somethings up with my heart considering my BP and rate, but she seems happy with all my tests and readings. Cardiology let me go home that time in October. Most high BP readings I get go down once i stop panicking. But still, my brain is latched onto thinking something is awfully wrong and even more so right now.

I'm in the middle of a busy deadline in work - and i need to lock in, but my brain cannot focus since it's convinced I'm dying right now. I'm trying so hard to not seek reassurance from friends/family/doctor but that's making me feel worse. I feel like I'm in withdrawals or something like I'm just pacing around without working or focusing on anything else.

Sorry for the long rant. I'm so lost here.

Does anyone else get a numb throat and sometimes back of tongue from Gaviscon? I have Gaviscon Advance Aniseed liquid and everytime i take it, my throat immediately goes numb. It's a horrible feeling & makes me panic, but I can breathe (I just panic regardless thinking its anaphylaxis or something) Same happens with peppermint. However, the tablets are completely fine.

I don't think it's an allergy? I'm sure the same reaction would've occurred with tablets.

Does anyone else get this sensation or know if this is common/meant to happen? Is there a numbing agent in it?

I've had OCD all my life as far as I can remember. It used to be mainly fixating on things like checking locks, counting during certain events. The last few years it has been health related. I have horrible health anxiety, which my mom has pointed out probably stems from lots of time in hospitals as a child - always hated it. But I'm an adult now, and I'm so hyperfocused on my health. Like daily obsessive.

Everyday I think something is killing me. I fixate on it, I vent to my friends and family. I can tell people are so sick of me, even when I've tried to explain I don't know how to stop. I guess my compulsion when I'm obsessed is to seek reassurance for my health. My husband has grown more distant, my friends seem fed up.

This month alone has been a new low. I visited an emergency doctor (not my own) for an issue and got my blood pressure checked while I was there. It was high. It told the doctor it would be because well, I'm petrified of seeing doctors. He seemed to think it was serious because he doesn't actually know my history - had a monitor in 2022 which was fine, had it checked by my own clinic at christmas and it was high but got lower because I was obviously just panicked.

Well, since then Ive been convinced I'm dying with high blood pressure and probably an impending heart attack. Its ALL I can think about every hour.

I have a lot going on in my life at the moment to be stressed over. But my brain is fixated on my health. I'm 27! I do have a family history of heart issues and high BP but never this young - and my doctor is aware of this. I had a heart monitor in hospital for a few hours in October because of weird ECGs and turns out it was potassium issues, but now I'm convinced it's not. My brain will not rest.

I have chronic acid reflux problems, and recentlt saw a tiktok where a 27 year old woman said her acid reflux was actually a clogged artery in her heart and she had a heart attack. Ever since then, about 4 days ago, I have been going actually insane. My heart rate is constantly noticeable. I can't unfocus on it, I feel it constantly, it's high, I'm panicked, I get headaches from the stress, and I'm dizzy standing up, dizzy walking around. My chest is constantly tight. Yeah, probably is high BP but it's entirely my own brain doing it this time. Because of the dizziness and tightness and panic the last few days, I've just been curled up on the couch. Like thats it. It's all I'm doing. I can barely hold a conversation because I'm too focused on trying to calm tf down.

I just can't settle. I can't chill out. My brain is convinced I'm always dying and my panic makes my BP higher so it's a vicious cycle. I'm petrified of doctor visits because my BP goes high so I dont even want to see my own. I'm tempted to visit to tell her all of this above, for my MENTAL health, but the fear of her checking my BP or doing a monitor is putting me off entirely. I'm petrified my heart is clogged, or BP is sky high, or that I'm just actually going crazy. I can't get my brain to stop focusing.

Sorry for the rant and ramble. It's nice to write this all out. I am genuinely shaking and crying and panicking even typing this all out, because I just cannot get myself to chill at all and I'm pushing everyone and my own sanity away I think. It's affecting my work life too, I keep having panic attacks which triggers asthma or high BP and boom, square one.

I just want to chill out. Without any meds like xanax. Without doctors. I used to be so chill. I miss me.

Edit: added a detail