I just found this forum and decided to post since there are a few individuals whom I can relate to. My pulsatile tinnitus started in April this year after I had a bad cold. A month later I had to travel and I could not pop my left ear, where I have the pulsatile tinnitus. I visited an ENT consultant who gave me nasal spray as according to him I had eustachian tube dysfunction. The spray had no effect and I visited the ENT again. I was prescribed with oral steroids. He told me that after 10 days I would be cured. Unfortunately this did not happen.
I had a hearing test done and results were fine. The same ENT told me that it will be gone by itself. It is now September and the whooshing is still there. I went to another ENT who told me that I did not have ETD but pulsatile tinnitus. He told me that the next step is to have a doppler test on my neck to check whether I could have a blocked carotid vein. I am having many sleepless nights worrying about this and would really like to find what's wrong. I am 63 years old. No high blood pressure. I am going to have blood tests as well.
Shall keep posting with outcome. It gives me courage to read others who are suffering through this and that I am not alone.
I had a hearing test done and results were fine. The same ENT told me that it will be gone by itself. It is now September and the whooshing is still there. I went to another ENT who told me that I did not have ETD but pulsatile tinnitus. He told me that the next step is to have a doppler test on my neck to check whether I could have a blocked carotid vein. I am having many sleepless nights worrying about this and would really like to find what's wrong. I am 63 years old. No high blood pressure. I am going to have blood tests as well.
Shall keep posting with outcome. It gives me courage to read others who are suffering through this and that I am not alone.