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How did it develope?
Did you get swallowing/throat-pain too? (without fever)
Where you under a lot of stress, with neck tension, bye the time this happened to you?
My adress is stigmatisert@hotmail.com . Looking forward to hear from you.(I need to hear, from you, Please)View Thread

My eustachian tubes stopped elevate air for 13 months. I just don't understand why, but it gave me terrible swallowing pain(!) When I understood the mechanism I pressed them up with Valsalvas manoevers and cleaning my nose with neti-pot. Ever after, I have this crackeling noise in my ears when I swallow and yawn. Actually, I feel like my tubes are filled with some sticky materie, so I'd rather call it a "sticky" noise.
I haven't found out what's in my tubes. I just don't understand why the walls suddenly totally stuck together, but I have some hypothesis. The time before it happened:
1) I had a lot of pressure at work and private combined with a neck-prolaps. Chiroprators say that the openings of the eustachian tubes get in problems when you have a 'subluxation' (out of position) or live a long time in excessive stress and neck tension.
2) I used tooth-paste in a tooth with temporary filling. I used it 24/7. I've read that the toothpaste-soap may "dry out" the mucus. Maybe the openings to my tubes "dryed out" and hindered them opening.
Now that I've pressed them open again, I have this crackelig/sticky noise. I just don't understand why they still a kine of "stick" together. Is it fluid from the ears, the tube-walls changed while being closed, water-solution from the neti-pot?
No ENT understood my swallowing pain. I guess, I'll never get an answer regarding mye tubes crackeling - or any help for them sticking together...View Thread

The excessive air gets trapped because the swallowing muscles struggle to press it down, as it were food. (and, as I guess you know, air-pressure hurts a lot).
You might get your tubes to open more easely by "watering" them using a neti-pot or press them open by holding your nose. (The combination is not good, because the "squeeking" sound may hurt your hearing or the pressure may result in a barotrauma - as unlucky divers may get).
Write a comment to keep me updated after trying it.View Thread

Cricopharyngeal dysfunction:
Dr. Robert Bastian of Bastian Voice Institute explains this progressive swallowing problem, and presents options for treatment.
Or at this (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkejK6eiHeo&feature=relmfu
)
Cricopharyngeal spasm:
Dr. Robert Bastian of Bastian Voice Institute explains cricopharyngeus spasm, a problem that causes a troubling sensation of throat constriction or of a foreign body in the throat.
I've got something similar, but much-much more painful (stabbing pain around the Adams apple), so most, probably, I may get a "differensial" diagnose. I don't know. Perhaps it may be helpful...View Thread
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