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Pulsatile tinnitus
Started getting heart beat sounds in right ear only. Got an MRA to check the arteries (no results yet). Strangely the sounds start in the evening and continue when I go to bed. I have no idea why it's quiet during the day. Has anyone else had this experience. If my arteries are okay in my brain then I have to look for other causes. Any ideas. I checked medication side effects but that doesn't seem to be the cause. One night I exercised in the evening and I had no sounds, but that didn't work yesterday. I'm perplexed.
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It is August 2023. I made mistake as senior citizen getting the last Covid Booster after I
had had all the initial shots. Many symptoms occured and I got very sick. I think I have pulsatile tinnitus and I am anxious to find the right doctor and treatment. It is scary as I am anemic with blood flow problems. I do think or am mostly positive that Covid booster
attacked my immune system and began a series of health issues never had before the shot.
I need to act on this soon and plan to try Mayo. May start with local neurologist, ENT, or any other relevant provider. It's is strange that tinnitus just now is showing up with people reporting it a lot.
@neuropathy i never got boosters because I had reactions to the initial vaccines. 6 months later got Covid and took Paxlovid. I would never get a booster. Too many issues with heart as well. I spoke to people all over the country and everyone of them knew someone who never had heart problems and got them (and died!) or had heart problems exacerbated since the vaccine and booster. Personally I think it is destroying our immune systems.
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1 ReactionI've had a heart beat sound in both ears when I lay down at night and lay on my ears. I had a head MRI for other reasons but didn't show anything. Would I need ear MRIs? Anyways it gets annoying. Should I go back to the neuro doc and let him know?
Did you get results?
Most MDs I saw in 2010-2012 were unfamiliar with pulsatile tinnitus.
They assumed whatever noise I heard was untreatable after testing to rule out dangerous causes.
Some causes of P.T. are treatable.
Scroll to my Feb. 13 post.
If you don’t see it, I can send it to you.
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1 ReactionIt won't let scroll that far up
I think I found it..u posted a website for whooshers
Reposting 2/13 reply to another member:
Look at http://www.whooshers.com for MDs who understand “pulsatile tinnitus.”
I saw 2 neurointerventional radiologists in NYU-Langone 10+years ago.
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1 ReactionAspirin helps blood flow. Perhaps start it again to test your theory?
I have the same problem in my right ear. I was diagnosed with Otosclerosis twenty years ago with moderate hearing loss in the right ear. The ENT suggested a stapedectomy, which I wish I would have had done. He said it could go bad again so I opted for hearing aids which helped immensely. The pulsatile tinnitus mostly disappears when I sleep. It has gotten worse lately, so I either see the ENT about the surgery or go with a larger hearing aid and see if that helps, as I am having difficulty hearing with the right ear again.