What to do when the doctors shrug their shoulders?
I know of a woman 10 years younger than your mother, who had almost all of your mother’s symptoms, right down to the sciatica and up to the feeling of pressure in the ears (I have no information about the jaw) and who had been diagnosed with Thoracic outlet syndrome. The real underlying problem in her case was apparently a leak in her cerebro-spinal fluid (CSF) right up at the top where the containment is thinnest– in her sinuses. She had an annoying, perpetual post-nasal drip which turned out to be CSF. The only time she got complete relief from the pressure in her ears was when she was on an airplane, though she did usually feel a little better when the weather was stormy. I knew personally another woman in her 40s who had some of your mother’s symptoms, the sciatica and the burning p
