I have had on and off ear throbbing for five months now. I had thought this was from my sinus infection that I had surgery for a couple months ago, but the surgeon and ENT said that it wouldnt cause it.

It had gone away for a couple of weeks and I thought I was done with it, but it has come back. It typically hits me at the end of my day when I'm starting to relax and this often coensides with my daughter playing loudly. My ear starts to throb and it moves to pretty much my whole head. It can turn into a migraine, but most of the time it is not very painful, just really irritating. If its a really bad episode I end up getting a bit nausious and dizzy. I have been to a few doctors so far for this and none have been able to figure out what it is. If anyone has some insight to this, please let me know.

Thank you.............Mitch

Hi Mitch, I'm guessing you know about tinnitus and have ruled that out. Nevertheless, I just wanted to tell you that I've found that my tinnitus is activated by stress... so when you say you get the throbbing late in the day, maybe it's the nerves reacting to the stress you've dealt with.

Happily I've learned that using extra methylcobalamin lozenges makes my tinnitus become less loud, and go away.

I'm not sure it entirely goes away because sometimes if I stop and pay attention to what I hear, I can hear the refrigerator running... only I don't have a refrigerator running since I got solar, so it should be totally quiet except for car noises and such outside...

Still, this amount of tinnitus doesn't drive me crazy like the really loud bouts.

So, you might want to get some methylcobalamin lozenges and try them. Maybe if you were under a lot of stress during the day you could use extra ones and ward off the throbbing...

try a dentist for TMJ

I do have TMJ and I do have tinnitus, but I dont think this has to do with either of those. With the TMJ I get a loud poping sound in my jaw everytime I chew and I do get ringing in my ears which is the tinnitus.

I will see if the throbbing can be due to tinnitus, but it seems to be different in nature. I will try the methylcobalamin lozenges to see if this has any effect on it, ty.

Hi, I hope that you get some relief from the throbbing.

I wasn't really thinking that the throbbing was due to tinnitus, but possibly due to nerve irritation. Throbbing seems to suggest pressure, as if as your heart pumps blood there is a rhythmic increase in pressure.

My thought is that if your nerves are irritated due to lack of sufficient B12, then a very small amount of additional pressure would become a throbbing pain.

If there's a swelling that is causing the throbbing then if you take an Advil that would reduce the swelling. Only the trouble with Ibuprofen (Advil and the like) is that it can do damage. I stopped using it after I learned that it was contributing to my dental problems by weakening my jaw bone. Now I use serrapeptase. It's not as fast acting but for me it's worth waiting for the results rather than losing more bone in my jaw...

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