Hi everyone, I have been having what I think is Pulsatile tinitus in my right ear for the last few months. Although my right ear feels a bit strange (full maybe or a very slight distant throb) during the day when I am upright, when ever I lay flat I have a really loud and strong throb which is annoying and quite scary at times.
A bit of back ground, untill last summer I was completely healthy, and then I started getting this constant drunk feeling, head felt like it was full of cotton wool, I couldn't concentrate, my balance was off and I kept banging my self on door frames and dropping things etc. The doctor sent me for a brain MRI which showed nothing. The feelings remained and I saw a neurologist who could find nothing wrong. A few months later, sick of feeling slightly drunk and getting worried it might be MS or something I went back to the GP again who reffered me to ENT. At this point the tinitus in my right ear had started and I mentioned this to him, along with the other symtoms, he sent me for a MRI of my ears, which found something 'A small cystic area possibily related to the right temple or mandibular joint". He sent me for a CT scan to investigate further, and I am currently awaiting the results. Has anyone heard of this being a cause for tinitus, or had this happen to them.?
I am finding the waiting for the CT results the worst part!
A bit of back ground, untill last summer I was completely healthy, and then I started getting this constant drunk feeling, head felt like it was full of cotton wool, I couldn't concentrate, my balance was off and I kept banging my self on door frames and dropping things etc. The doctor sent me for a brain MRI which showed nothing. The feelings remained and I saw a neurologist who could find nothing wrong. A few months later, sick of feeling slightly drunk and getting worried it might be MS or something I went back to the GP again who reffered me to ENT. At this point the tinitus in my right ear had started and I mentioned this to him, along with the other symtoms, he sent me for a MRI of my ears, which found something 'A small cystic area possibily related to the right temple or mandibular joint". He sent me for a CT scan to investigate further, and I am currently awaiting the results. Has anyone heard of this being a cause for tinitus, or had this happen to them.?
I am finding the waiting for the CT results the worst part!
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I haven't got anything that I can blame this on, it just started for no reason. I have found the doctors to be great so far, but they were trying to steer me down the 'stress, anxiety, depression' route, which I knew 100% wasn't the cause, but you even start to doubt yourself when it goes on for so long. I should hear more within the next week, and then hopefully they will tell me if they can do anything about it 
