Hi there. I am really hoping to get some answers here. I am 45 with absolutely no other known health issues...past or present...besides mild anxiety/dizziness and I am anemic but the cause has not yet been determined...or rather all forms of testing have found nothing so my doctor is treating it as an absorption problem. I have had very mild ringing in my ears at random times for as long as I can remember. Nothing bothersome but definitely noticeable and it only lasts a few seconds and it doesn't happen every day. Over the last couple of months I have started noticing something that seems more like pulsatile tinnitus, and then this morning something else new that is just plain weird. I'll start with describing the pulsatile...
Whenever I am lying on my left side and my ear is pressed against my pillow, I can hear my pulse. This too has always happened and happens on the right side but what's new about this is the sound has changed. The best I can describe it is that there is a bit of a "squishy" sound added to it. And it the squishing sound stops if I tilt my neck up or down while still having my left ear on my pillow. This is more annoying that worrisome for me, thought I have wondered about an aneurysm.
Then what happened today has me completely and totally freaked out because it makes no sense to me. I don't know if it's tinnitus or a noise the house was making. I was up early for work drinking coffee. I was in our office. We have only lived in this house for a year, and I'm honestly not sure of another time I chose to sit in there early in the morning over the living room, so the room could play a part in this. The house was completely silent except the sound of the computer hard drive. I was sitting with my left ear on the side where the doorway is. I started hearing a repeated beep that sounded EXACTLY like one of the heart rate/pulse monitors in a hospital. (I have spent the night in the hospital with my grandmother before, so I know the sound well.) The beeps were at regular intervals as well. It sounded like it was coming from my left. So I started turning around (the chair spins around, so not turning my head) to listen more closely and see if I could pinpoint where it was coming from. I did not hear the beeping at all when I was facing any other direction in the room, but every time I had my left ear on the side with the door, I heard it again. I'm pretty sure there isn't anything in my house that makes this noise. I am always up before everyone else, and I usually stay up later at night too. I did this a couple of times...same thing...but the third of fourth time I noticed something else. When facing one other direction...one turn to my right, I wouldn't hear the beep but something that was more like the squishy sound, but different (maybe because my head wasn't on a pillow).
Has anyone experienced similar things and what is your diagnosis, if any? I have a doctor appointment next week and I am definitely bringing this up. I can't help but feel like there must be something bad going on inside my brain, but I do realize it could be a number of things and possibly harmless too. There is so much information out there and I have yet to hear of anyone describe anything similar. Thank you so much!
Whenever I am lying on my left side and my ear is pressed against my pillow, I can hear my pulse. This too has always happened and happens on the right side but what's new about this is the sound has changed. The best I can describe it is that there is a bit of a "squishy" sound added to it. And it the squishing sound stops if I tilt my neck up or down while still having my left ear on my pillow. This is more annoying that worrisome for me, thought I have wondered about an aneurysm.
Then what happened today has me completely and totally freaked out because it makes no sense to me. I don't know if it's tinnitus or a noise the house was making. I was up early for work drinking coffee. I was in our office. We have only lived in this house for a year, and I'm honestly not sure of another time I chose to sit in there early in the morning over the living room, so the room could play a part in this. The house was completely silent except the sound of the computer hard drive. I was sitting with my left ear on the side where the doorway is. I started hearing a repeated beep that sounded EXACTLY like one of the heart rate/pulse monitors in a hospital. (I have spent the night in the hospital with my grandmother before, so I know the sound well.) The beeps were at regular intervals as well. It sounded like it was coming from my left. So I started turning around (the chair spins around, so not turning my head) to listen more closely and see if I could pinpoint where it was coming from. I did not hear the beeping at all when I was facing any other direction in the room, but every time I had my left ear on the side with the door, I heard it again. I'm pretty sure there isn't anything in my house that makes this noise. I am always up before everyone else, and I usually stay up later at night too. I did this a couple of times...same thing...but the third of fourth time I noticed something else. When facing one other direction...one turn to my right, I wouldn't hear the beep but something that was more like the squishy sound, but different (maybe because my head wasn't on a pillow).
Has anyone experienced similar things and what is your diagnosis, if any? I have a doctor appointment next week and I am definitely bringing this up. I can't help but feel like there must be something bad going on inside my brain, but I do realize it could be a number of things and possibly harmless too. There is so much information out there and I have yet to hear of anyone describe anything similar. Thank you so much!
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