I thought the same thing as well. Highly toxic,take that out of the mix ASAP especially with Hashimotos
I have this too and think it may be CNH. Bottom line, it's pain from pressure on the cartilage of ear, the Helix. It can cause tumors etc. but is not serious, just painful. I have tried umpteen pillows; the best is something called Womfy, seen on FaceBook. I use it most of the time. Another is actually called a CNH pillow.
Hi. I've been having the same problem and its driving me crazy. I fall asleep, wake up with excruciating ear pain, gently lift it off the pillow, which causes severe pain for a few seconds, roll over, and start all over again. Both ears!!! Every few hours I rotate because each ear hurts so bad. This never happened until I was in my forties. I wish to God I knew what it was. I've switched beds, mattresses, and pillows. Nothing! Someone needs to study this as I've read several people saying the same thing. It can't be that we're all imaging this!!!
I have been following this thread for a while as I also have the same problem but with my left ear. It started in March 2002 and I woke with it in both ears. I was due to fly in a couple of days and assumed I had sudden onset ear infections but with no fever. By the time I collected the antibiotics the pain had completely gone. Now the pain is only in my left ear if I lay on my left hand side. The pain is unbearable and nobody knew what was causing it. The pain would also last into the next day and would subside around midday. I couldn't move my head, chew or anything else without excruciating pain. I finally went to the doctors who got me an X-ray. The X-ray showed that I had muscle spasms in my neck and a course of physiotherapy commenced. This made no difference whatsoever. I guessed I just had to live with the pain. On Monday I had a dentist appointment. Without mentioning about my ear the dentist found that my jaw on the left is out of alignment. She said I have TMJ which would explain the ear pain. I had mentioned to another dentist about bruxism before but she said there is no sign of teeth grinding so I dismissed TMJ as that is meant to be a major cause. The upshot of it is to get myself a mouth guard at £222 from the dentist. For now I have decided not to as I seem to have accustomed myself to laying on my back or right hand side and have no issue. Sometimes I roll over and I know about it alright! I am glad I found this thread as I really am baffled by this, as are many people.
I will try this.
Agreed, some Doctor must care enough to actually follow up on this issue! I have minor circulation issues but thought that my ear pain was tied in with my joint problems (I suspect I have arthritis, but have yet to speak to my doctor about it).
Tomorrow I'm headed to an acupuncturist who I hope can help me with my ear pain. He's never heard of such a thing... I hear that from everyone.
After Lyme disease and bartonella treatment, it WENT AWAY.
I've been having ear cartilage pain upon waking for a very long time-years. Same of most posters, painful to rub, gets better after waking/rubbing. No doc or ENT doc had answers said it was from sleeping on it. I've only had minor random aches and pains, mainly unexplained mid-back. Insomnia, often. After a series of stressful life events, I got really ill. Light/sound sensitive & more.
I suspected lyme disease but tested negative on the 1st tier testing, they never did somewhat better 2nd tier western blot test. Things got worse until my nerves couldn't handle the slightest stressors. Finally got treated by a Lyme specialist. After improvements, my doc moved to Bartonella treatment, that's when my cartilage pain stopped. There are many species of bart. Cats carry it, flies, ticks, etc. Some species don't cause gross skin stuff (like internet photos) but prefer your tendons and cartilage. Lyme doc says bart can live in you along time with little issue but likely Lyme and stress released it causing more issues. Been off antibiotics now for two months, morning ear cartilage pain is BACK. Relapse of bart is typical. Treatment: doxycycline plus rifampin (because doxy also treats lyme) or levaquin. Levaquin has a warning of inflammation tendon rupture so when the bacterial load is high, it'n not a 1st choice. I had huge progress as a second line treatment, including long-time relief of random spine pain but it is also returning. Back to doc I go. Darn Bart!
One more thing, if you take doxycycline (or another antibiotic) and you have a strong reaction you think is allergic, check out Jarisch–Herxheimer reaction. I've heard people with Lyme/Bart symptoms say, "I'm allergic to nearly all antibiotics". There are allergic reactions TRUE - but then there's a Herx! It's real and well documented.
I've been having ear cartilage pain upon waking for a very long time-years. Same of most posters, painful to rub, gets better after waking/rubbing. No doc or ENT doc had answers said it was from sleeping on it. I've only had minor random aches and pains, mainly unexplained mid-back. Insomnia, often. After a series of stressful life events, I got really ill. Light/sound sensitive & more.
I suspected lyme disease but tested negative on the 1st tier testing, they never did somewhat better 2nd tier western blot test. Things got worse until my nerves couldn't handle the slightest stressors. Finally got treated by a Lyme specialist. After improvements, my doc moved to Bartonella treatment, that's when my cartilage pain stopped. There are many species of bart. Cats carry it, flies, ticks, etc. Some species don't cause gross skin stuff (like internet photos) but prefer your tendons and cartilage. Lyme doc says bart can live in you along time with little issue but likely Lyme and stress released it causing more issues. Been off antibiotics now for two months, morning ear cartilage pain is BACK. Relapse of bart is typical. Treatment: doxycycline plus rifampin (because doxy also treats lyme) or levaquin. Levaquin has a warning of inflammation tendon rupture so when the bacterial load is high, it'n not a 1st choice. I had huge progress as a second line treatment, including long-time relief of random spine pain but it is also returning. Back to doc I go. Darn Bart!
One more thing, if you take doxycycline (or another antibiotic) and you have a strong reaction you think is allergic, check out Jarisch–Herxheimer reaction. I've heard people with Lyme/Bart symptoms say, "I'm allergic to nearly all antibiotics". There are allergic reactions TRUE - but then there's a Herx! It's real and well documented.
I have fixed this by concentrating on my sinuses, rather than my ears. With an evening nasal wash and spray, I sleep and only have the slightest indication of the pain that would otherwise keep me awake all night.
I have suffered in the way you describe for years, i have it in both ears when I lie at night I have to continually change my position to other side ! I do have arthritis in the neck and shoulders , and as no GP has offered a diagnosis , I assume its nerve damage or something. Whatever I just wish I could get a good nights sleep !!
I have been having the same thing happen to me for years. At first it would happen once in a long while however, over the years it is more frequent. Today it happens a few times a week. The feeling is a severe burning sensation right where the ear meets the head. It subsides a few minutes after it wakes me up but in the meantime there is nothing you can do for the pain because just picking your head off of the pillow hurts. what I do is make a "C" shape with my hand, put my ear inside the "C" shape and lay on it. This allows me to lay and fall asleep while there is no pressure on the ear itself. My doctor had no clue either. Michelle
have just started to have this ear pain in the last 5 weeks, being woken up by the pain most nights. 7 weeks ago l had to have a hip revision and was implanted with a titanium hip at the same time as the ear pain l started to get a allergic rash all over my body which l think is from the hip implant. I also suffer from chronic fatigue syndrome which affected my thyroid, so l am thinking this is a type of stress related thing. Still don't know what the answer is though.
Like all of you I have suffered with this for years. If you wake in the night with ear pain, try lifting your head still pressing the pillow firmly to your ear and hold it there for a few seconds before releasing. It seems to break the pressure and avoids the excruciating pain of suddenly raising your head from pillow.
Hi ladies, i have been suffering with this paon for the last 5 years now. And the last two years i found my own solution so i thought this may help you guys. So obviouslyyou can always prevent when asleep which side you will fall asleep on, but when i do end up sleeping on my right no matter what I woll exp this horrible pain in the middle of the night so what i do is:
1. Wet tissue with COLD water and drain the water out (not too much) tissue needs to feel wet
2. Rip parts of the tissue off and roll it up so it can fit into my ear
3. And either use a cold fan on the ear or some sort of paper or card board and fan it next to your ear.
This slowly removes the pain away, not going to lie sometimes it can take upto an hour for the pain to go, and sometimes 15-20 mins. But this tech has helped med everytime so I hope it can help you guys also!
1. Wet tissue with COLD water and drain the water out (not too much) tissue needs to feel wet
2. Rip parts of the tissue off and roll it up so it can fit into my ear
3. And either use a cold fan on the ear or some sort of paper or card board and fan it next to your ear.
This slowly removes the pain away, not going to lie sometimes it can take upto an hour for the pain to go, and sometimes 15-20 mins. But this tech has helped med everytime so I hope it can help you guys also!
I have had the same problem for many years but I find that using wax earplugs helps. I don't know why, as it is the outer ear cartilage that hurts, but it really does help. At bedtime I warm the earplugs until they are soft and pliable and then roll one end to insert into the inner ear and squash other end so it's quite rounded. I've been doing this for years, since I saw an ear specialist whilst I was pregnant. He wanted to treat me with steroids after my baby was born, but in the end I decided to stick with the earplugs since they were helping so much. That and soft pillows. I can only find one supplier for the earplugs though, and I live in fear of them stopping production, if that happens I may have to rethink the steroids.