I have a wonderfully miraculous pulsatile tinnitus cure to report. My name is Paul Johnson. I am 68 years old. I live in Simi Valley California, about 40 minute drive northwest of downtown Los Angeles.
During a very stressful time for me related to my real estate lending business in the spring of 2012, I started to experience a whooshing sound in my left ear. The sound seem to be in sync with my heartbeat. At first the whooshing was very slight and I mostly ignored it thinking that it was something that would soon go way. Within several weeks it had become much louder and begin to cause me much anxiety and sleepless nights. So I made an appointment to see a local ENT.
The ENT examined me in his office and then ordered a hearing test, both of which yielded no explanation for the sounds I was hearing. The ENT then directed me to take numerous tests, MRI and CT scans. The doctors at Simi Adventist Hospital examined the test results but could not tell me the cause of the sound that I was hearing. I was disappointed and a bit discouraged. My ENT gave me no further explanation but referred me to Dr. Brackmann at the well-known House Ear Clinic in Los Angeles. The soonest appointment I could obtain was two and half months out and by then the sound had become very loud.
I took along to the appointment the CDs of my MRI and CT scans. During my examination, Dr. Brackmann quickly recognized the objective nature of my condition by putting a stethoscope to my head. Upon his review of my scans, he swiftly concluded that a blood vessel shunt between my occipital artery and jugular vein near my ear was causing the noise. He pressed hard on my skull in back of my ear explaining that it was possible to cause a situation where that shunt might close and the pulsatile tinnitus would go away. That did not work. He then showed me on the scan images where the condition was indicated. I could see it plainly. I wondered why my ENT or none of the doctors at the Simi hospital had not discovered this.
He directed me to meet with an interventional radiologist, Dr. Lois, at St. Vincent's Hospital across the street from the clinic with the idea of running a plug in an artery up from my leg all the way up to my head to block that blood flow connection. I did meet with Dr. Lois. He showed me his operating room, explained the risks, and also advised me that there was no hurry to make a decision. In the months that followed, Dr. Brackmann contacted me several times by mail to inquire about my condition and to encourage me to go ahead with this angiogram procedure as he believed there was, among other complications, a risk of blood backing up in my jugular vein and affecting my brain.
It seemed that there were risks either way and I somehow sensed that I should hold off doing this procedure even though I've had to live with the risks and the loud heartbeat sound whooshing in my head all the time. I adapted to live with only modest anxiety caused by the whooshing and also learned to use these sounds in a positive way as kind of a biofeedback to regulate and lower my heart rate which has been good for my blood pressure. (I've taken daily medication since 2009 but have had elevated blood pressure all my life.)
In early November of last year (2014) late on a Saturday night, I was sitting in my home office with all the lights turned off meditating when I lifted my smart phone to look at Facebook. Strangely enough there was a FB article posted on my news feed about tinnitus and so I started to read it. What interested me was that it was about somebody with pulsatile tinnitus who eventually discovered that the cause was an enlarged blood vessel near some small bones in his ear. Eventually he had major surgery and it was cured.
I thought about my own tinnitus condition and then went upstairs to go to bed. My wife, Sheila, and I spent some time together and I had her pray over me for general improved health. Then while laying back on my pillow I suddenly realized that I could no longer hear the loud whooshing heartbeats in my ear. I was afraid to move because it was the first time in 30 months that I haven't heard those loud sounds. Somehow, I quickly fell asleep. When I woke up in the morning, the sounds were still gone. At first I was rather cautious about the permanency of this, but Sheila encouraged me to affirm that it is a permanent miraculous cure. It's been so quiet ever since. I continue to be very grateful for this blessing.
Paul D. Johnson, Simi Valley, CA
During a very stressful time for me related to my real estate lending business in the spring of 2012, I started to experience a whooshing sound in my left ear. The sound seem to be in sync with my heartbeat. At first the whooshing was very slight and I mostly ignored it thinking that it was something that would soon go way. Within several weeks it had become much louder and begin to cause me much anxiety and sleepless nights. So I made an appointment to see a local ENT.
The ENT examined me in his office and then ordered a hearing test, both of which yielded no explanation for the sounds I was hearing. The ENT then directed me to take numerous tests, MRI and CT scans. The doctors at Simi Adventist Hospital examined the test results but could not tell me the cause of the sound that I was hearing. I was disappointed and a bit discouraged. My ENT gave me no further explanation but referred me to Dr. Brackmann at the well-known House Ear Clinic in Los Angeles. The soonest appointment I could obtain was two and half months out and by then the sound had become very loud.
I took along to the appointment the CDs of my MRI and CT scans. During my examination, Dr. Brackmann quickly recognized the objective nature of my condition by putting a stethoscope to my head. Upon his review of my scans, he swiftly concluded that a blood vessel shunt between my occipital artery and jugular vein near my ear was causing the noise. He pressed hard on my skull in back of my ear explaining that it was possible to cause a situation where that shunt might close and the pulsatile tinnitus would go away. That did not work. He then showed me on the scan images where the condition was indicated. I could see it plainly. I wondered why my ENT or none of the doctors at the Simi hospital had not discovered this.
He directed me to meet with an interventional radiologist, Dr. Lois, at St. Vincent's Hospital across the street from the clinic with the idea of running a plug in an artery up from my leg all the way up to my head to block that blood flow connection. I did meet with Dr. Lois. He showed me his operating room, explained the risks, and also advised me that there was no hurry to make a decision. In the months that followed, Dr. Brackmann contacted me several times by mail to inquire about my condition and to encourage me to go ahead with this angiogram procedure as he believed there was, among other complications, a risk of blood backing up in my jugular vein and affecting my brain.
It seemed that there were risks either way and I somehow sensed that I should hold off doing this procedure even though I've had to live with the risks and the loud heartbeat sound whooshing in my head all the time. I adapted to live with only modest anxiety caused by the whooshing and also learned to use these sounds in a positive way as kind of a biofeedback to regulate and lower my heart rate which has been good for my blood pressure. (I've taken daily medication since 2009 but have had elevated blood pressure all my life.)
In early November of last year (2014) late on a Saturday night, I was sitting in my home office with all the lights turned off meditating when I lifted my smart phone to look at Facebook. Strangely enough there was a FB article posted on my news feed about tinnitus and so I started to read it. What interested me was that it was about somebody with pulsatile tinnitus who eventually discovered that the cause was an enlarged blood vessel near some small bones in his ear. Eventually he had major surgery and it was cured.
I thought about my own tinnitus condition and then went upstairs to go to bed. My wife, Sheila, and I spent some time together and I had her pray over me for general improved health. Then while laying back on my pillow I suddenly realized that I could no longer hear the loud whooshing heartbeats in my ear. I was afraid to move because it was the first time in 30 months that I haven't heard those loud sounds. Somehow, I quickly fell asleep. When I woke up in the morning, the sounds were still gone. At first I was rather cautious about the permanency of this, but Sheila encouraged me to affirm that it is a permanent miraculous cure. It's been so quiet ever since. I continue to be very grateful for this blessing.
Paul D. Johnson, Simi Valley, CA
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