Here's a Tinnitus truth - some doctors know little about the physical associations to tinnitus and pulsatile tinnitus. I have hearing loss and physical tinnitus where my jaw and neck is messed up. My doctors and therapists know Jack about that. I had to figure this out myself.
About a year ago I ended up with pulsatile tinnitus as well. When I told all 12 of my doctors as to what I though was cause, they laughed. In May, a CT noted an aortic abdominal aneurysm at 3 cm. A few weeks ago, I started to get severe temple headaches and eye pain. Two weeks ago, I started to see floaters / spiders and started to lose vision in my left eye.
Earlier today, I blacked out from very severe abdominal pain. A ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm would mean one hour to live without emergency surgery. Not thinking that I had a rupture, I still went to the ER and CT (no time for other imaging) showed my aortic aneurysm still being 3 cm with no rupture. After that, they did a head MRA and found nothing.
I had told my doctors that my past blood work has positive false readings. The special blood work that I requested done today proved that. The blood work also showed a very high vitamin A level with storage of other vitamins or lack of in my liver due to artery stress and more from my abdominal aortic to eye distress. So a very high vitamin A level from eating watermelon and fish never flushed out from my liver. I had though that all alone, that excess vitamin A caused my aneurysm, eye sight loss, floaters, abdominal pain, headaches and the aneurysm caused pulsatile tinnitus.
My doctors are not laughing now. I know that I need to completely slow B12 and vitamin A and get more sunlight. Hopefully a recent new drug discovery will help with my floaters and eye sight blindness. I do have serious heart disease and some other issues where my life is on a fast clock and sun down is almost upon me, but I'm 66. I got to say that it's hard typing with one eye. I was able to correct my TMJ and ear pain, but my teeth and mouth became a war zone with severe pain from dental whiplash.
A big problem in healthcare is sometimes waiting weeks or a month or two to be seen. With tinnitus a physical problem often needs fast attention. Go the ER if you need bloodwork, imaging tests or medications quickly.
Been reading a few posts during my posting absence and it's nice to see all the love and compassion to one and another. Please never blame yourself for your T ----------- T can be tough and all that can go with it, but if one thing wasn't cause, maybe something else could or would have been cause.
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