Recent content by WIllyC

@Roughseas, so just FYI I learned that in Canada when you go to have your test, you ask to file a freedom of information request for the results right there. They will have a form available (at least in BC) and you’ll be mailed the results. In each case I saw mine before the doctor contacted me...

I had a CT with contrast and it came back with SCDS. This is not a vascular cause - just for those who insist that all pulsatile tinnitus is vascular. It is not. For anyone else who is wondering I’ll summarize my symptoms: -high pitched, cardiosynchronous pulsing. -usually audible but...

I don’t understand what you are saying here.

There’s debate over if pulsatile tinnitus can be linked to hearing loss or if it is purely vascular. Likely readers are familiar with this article that can at least provide examples of non vascular sources of pulsatile tinnitus: Somatosensory Pulsatile Tinnitus Syndrome: Somatic Testing...

Mine is as you describe. I have no information for you though. I waited 2.5 months for a phone call with an ENT to determine he wants to see me in person and I get to wait another month and a half for that. Mine comes and goes. I haven’t been able to consistently correlate it to anything. It...

Maybe an indirect link? I drank too much and listened to music too loud. That same night of drinking may have triggered or made worse some vascular problem which surfaced my pulsatile tinnitus in the following weeks (I have completely given up drinking because of pulsatile tinnitus just on the...

Even if it is 100% cardio synchronous? Why not?

@Deepa v I'd take any scan I was able to get but I hear more stories of people being diagnosed with MRA/MRV. @Mister Muso Mine also followed an acoustic insult by about 6 weeks. In theory it shouldn’t be related but I’ve wondered if maybe it caused an inner ear infection that led to...

I did, although it happened within a month or so of initial onset as opposed to years. I am still to see my first specialist so you’re way further along than I am.

...but do they sound like these recordings inside the head (like from the victims perspective)? I’ve listened to these as well but mine sounds NOTHING like any of them. I can’t imagine any real world organically produced sound to be like what I hear inside my head. @tiniturtle - you’ve said...

How long have you had it and how long have you been pregnant? It seems to impact pregnant women more often (as many as 33% of pregnant woman can get it according to this: https://www.helpingmehear.com/tinnitus-articles/help-my-pregnancy-is-giving-me-tinnitus/)

I thought I’d give an update - this aspect of my tinnitus has started to subside. Most of my problem now is my familiar constant tone tinnitus and my pulsatile tinnitus (which is the part that bothers me the most). @Kendra, I hope yours also subsides eventually! I was also getting sound...

@RugbyAdam thanks for sharing your story! I often wonder if mine isn’t posture related. I’ve had tinnitus for years but after a particularly stupid night of loud music in August it got worse. After that I spent the following month staring at my phone reading this very forum, and by October I...

@Frédéric I see your posts so often and they are such no-bullshit, just the facts sorts of posts. I know nothing of your situation but thanks for your contributions. My input here will be the opposite - totally subjective. I live where cannabis is legal and I use it from time to time. In my...