Since High school, I’ve experienced discomfort with my left ear. Not the outside, actual ear, but inside, like my eardrum. I’ve always felt like there’s too much pressure in that ear. In Ms. Sutton’s pre-calculus I was stretching my neck, trying to release the tension that I was feeling. I pulled my head toward my right shoulder a little and I hear a “crack”, and felt some immediate relief. That was the beginning of a 17 year habit of cracking my neck. I always experienced a sensation of whatever muscle that was too tight in my ear relaxing. I would also try swallowing, trying to get my left ear to decompress, it was a very subtle, but very constant nuisance.
Today, instinctively I started pinching my neck, the part right under the jawbone, kind of near the glands Drs feel to see if you’re sick. I felt some asymmetry, some kind of lump on the left side. Pressed on it thinking it was a knot of muscle that needed to be released. I did not get a release I got something... different. With a loud “crunch” I felt something give. It felt like I put something back into place, or absolutely destroyed something. I freaked out a little because of the severity of the crunch and its proximity to my voicebox. It was like I had destroyed a thin, airy wafer in my neck and I was worried I had hurt myself.
I said something and sounded fine, so I calmed down and realized that whatever it was that was bothering me had disappeared. I felt the left side of my sinuses clear up a little. I feel my left ear open up a little (it itches some now as I type this), and when I swallow both sides feel the same, the same blessed feeling of normalcy.
This is awesome. Besides the pain in my shoulder this discomfort in the ear was a major factor I decided to get the treatment. I don’t know if this was just a temporary fix, but it feels way better than it has in over a decade and it’s lasted for about an hour as I type this, much longer than any other treatment I’ve had. Perhaps this will be permanent, that would be amazing.
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