Tinnitus Cured — Medical Mysteries: That Noise Was Not Tinnitus

Check out this article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/06/AR2009070602919.html
My husband has been suffering for years with the pulse or heartbeat in his ear. A doctor told him to get an MRA. I found this article just now. Maybe it will help others.

 

Hello @shand1001

A unique cause in this case, a nearly closed artery. I wonder if the condition is true Tinnitus, since it was not associated with hearing loss or ear nerves, whatever. Anyway my ENT used a stethoscope to listen right below and in back of the ears, nothing was detected, damn. I'll ask my regular doctor to check again.

Thanks for the story. And if anyone gets cured, Fantastic! One less person without T. Good Luck to your husband, maybe he will get cured.

 

Thanks for posting this. I'm going to ask my ent to listen with a stethascope to see if he can hear it too.

 

That noise was definitely tinnitus. Objective pulsatile tinnitus.

 

I was wondering if anyone knows where you should listen to see if someone else can hear it? I wan't to get one of my family members to try listening to mine tonight before I go to the ent tomorrow. I have a stethoscope, would that work?

 

@elliemeeme it should work, provided your family member knows how to properly use it

 

@Hariz Nonis thanks- I ended up waiting for the ent. He listened to both sides and couldn't hear it. I also couldn't hear it at that point so I wonder if that would stop him from hearing it also? I'm not sure what happened but last night the sound suddenly stopped and then kept starting up and stopping for a few hours- when I woke up it is gone but if I bend to look in my make up mirror I can still hear it, very odd.

 

Why not everybody gets this test
? I don't understand