I don’t see the neuro ENT until 2 more weeks, but I am not feeling better. I have also begun to experience a little tingling feeling in my hands. It still has the tinnitus, but it also kind of crackling and it kind of sounds like I can hear my own heartbeat or maybe it is my pulse?. Just in the past couple of days, my left ear is sounding different. Last week the neuro ENT added another prescription to work in conjuction with the diuretic (this now makes 4 prescriptions). I am on a strict low sodium diet and have cut out the caffeine. I am on several meds including diuretics and vitamins. He then sent me to a Neuro ENT tht agrees about the Meniere’s, but also thinks that something else may be going on with me. I have seen an ENT who thinks I have Meniere’s. I can be a little dizzy or lightheaded or have the severe vertigo that can knock me backwards off my feet (lierally). Now, it seems that I am dizzy all the time. At first I would get the attacks and miss a couple of days of work because I would be so drained it would take a lot out of me and I can sleep all day sometimes. The attacks come in episodes, some worse than others. The vertigo is accompanied by tinnitus in both ears and headaches (the tinnitus began in right ear, now it is in both). Since December, I have experienced severe vertigo (sometimes nausea and vomiting comes with it). To learn more about pulsatile tinnitus, check out the section on “Pulsatile Tinnitus in “ When Your Ears Ring! Cope with your Tinnitus-Here’s How“. The first step in treating pulsatile tinnitus is to go to a cardiovascular specialist and see if he can pinpoint the cause and go from there. These conditions cause your blood to flow faster and/or more turbulently-thus producing these strange sounds in step with each heartbeat. Often this is caused by atherosclerotic build up of cholesterol on the walls of your arteries, or high blood pressure. Generally, pulsatile tinnitus occurs when the smooth flow of blood in the blood vessels in your neck or head is interrupted. The good news is that this kind of tinnitus can often be fixed once the specific cause is identified.
The three most common causes of pulsatile tinnitus, accounting for 68% of the cases, are Benign Intracranial Hypertension (BIH) syndrome, Carotid Artery Disease (CAD) and Glomus Tumors (benign masses of blood vessels that grow near the ear). There are at least 25 different known causes of pulsatile tinnitus. Normally you don’t hear such sounds, but when something changes in the blood vessels near your ears, you sometimes hear these strange (and annoying) tinnitus sounds. Typically pulsatile tinnitus is related to the blood flowing in the arteries in your neck and near your ears. Since you are writing to me now, I assume that this is a fairly new phenomenon-and not a tinnitus sound you’ve been hearing for years. Thus, your “squeak, squeak”, “squeak” fits right in. One lady hears hers as a high-pitched ringing sound in time with her heartbeat, while a man explained he hears a “zing, zing, zing” sound in time with his heartbeat. I’ve never heard it described as a squeaking sound before, but it is consistent with what other people hear. Interestingly enough, as you have found, typically you only hear pulsatile tinnitus in one ear. When you hear your pulse in one or both ears, this is a type of tinnitus called pulsatile tinnitus. It is only on the left side, but it is very annoying and sounds like a heart murmur. Others only experience pulsatile tinnitus when they are lying down.I haven’t lost my hearing, but I hear my pulse as a “squeak” frequently. Some may only experience pulsatile tinnitus in one ear. But there can also be other causes of pulsatile tinnitus. With pulsatile tinnitus, the effect of stress is indirect as stress can exacerbate blood pressure. Also high blood pressure or a narrowing of a blood vessel near the ear may cause pulsatile tinnitus. Changes in the blood flow such as general increased blood flow, local increased blood flow or turbulent blood flow may be the cause. There can be different possible causes for pulsatile tinnitus. Pulsatile tinnitus, the thumping in the ear, is often related to the blood flow in the vessels (arteries and veins) near the ears or an increased awareness of the blood flow around the ears.
Read more about tinnitus here: What is tinnitus? What are the causes of pulsatile tinnitus? Pulsatile tinnitus is different from traditional tinnitus that normally manifests itself in other ways such as ringing, hissing and buzzing noises in the ear.
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