Vibrating Pulsing in Right Ear

Hello, everybody. I´m new here. I have been experiencing pulsatile tinnitus since May this year.

I have two types of T, but the more bothersome is pulsating, which I feel like something is moving inside my ear to the rhythm of heartbeat - I think it may be the sound of my artery which is going through the ear - is it possible if it is also vibrating?

The second sound is like sea shell, I hear it when I move my neck to the both sides and also when I duck down (sorry for my English if it is not good described). Strange thing is that in the night it goes away - pulsating (another sound I don´t know).

For some seconds or few minutes when I wake up I don´t hear it, but when I start to move it comes back quickly. I had MRI of the brain, but it showed nothing, ENT said that my ears are healthy - audiometry and also tympanometry are ok.

Another thing that I strongly feel is something like my blood is rushing too fast to my head when for example duck down.

I had a sonography of the neck, this showed more turbulent blood flow, but it is according to the doctor normal - I´m 32 years old. I´m very scared, I don´t know what it could be. I feel there is some reason in my body.

Has anyone any idea for me? Thank you very much.

 

Hi @Tanya2

Welcome to the forum. I have a similar condition as yours. I have regular tonal sound in left ear and PT in my right. I have been to ENTs and audiologists and got different tests done. Nothing abnormal. I do have a Hashimoto thyroiditis and I take tabs for them. The days I forget the tabs the pulses which sound like my carotid artery are rapid and some days are bad...feels like a fan motor rotating in my ear. Few things I have started Magnesium supplements 600 mg is what my ENT prescribed, and it helped reduce the fan rotor like symptoms. But the pulses are still there so, then I mask the pulses with a table fan and I cannot feel it anymore. Recently I have started masking aids but I don't know still if it helps! So good luck and please don't panic but try to understand and manage them.

 

Hello, Riya.

Thank you very much for your response. I have been thinking about my thyroid examination, I´m going to see my doctor next week and ask him for the test. I come from Slovakia, one specialised workplace for tinnitus takes people after the year of struggling with their symptoms - I don´t want to wait a year... It is so bad for me, sometimes at night I cannot sleep, have heart palpitations from that irritating and always working "something" in my ear -maybe it is also from anxiety. Even in our language I could not find the term "pusatile tinnitus". Everything I know about it is from english websites. I hope I will find some peace as you did. All the best to you. I will write about my test results...

 

Hello, Karen.

Thank you for your kind answer. One of the main reasons that I´ve subscribed to this site are your answers to many tinnitus sufferers. In my case is it due to MRI neurovascular conflict with AICA and VII. and VIII. nerve. I had a control MRI which showed this... I have also some feelings of pain in my ear, so I went to ENT again. He told me that it is also due to this conflict. This is the most frustrating, because with noises I would live quiet good, but with pain is it worse. He also told me that Tebokan - prescribed by neurologist will not help me, because it can not affect it. I was thinking about hyperbaric chamber, but now I´m demotivated, because it is also only on oxygen base. I don´t know if it has any sense. I´m very sad now and I don´t know how can I manage this. I have depression. I will live, that´s true, but what about quality of mi life...

 

I also wanted to ask you if you did not change your drugs, maybe it would be helpful for you...

 

I am new here and I am realizing that my ear problem is more common then I thought. I have pounding and vibration in my right ear. Does it ever go away on its own?