Hi, everyone. In this thread, I will post my experiences as I go through the processes again of trying to get the doctors to address my pulsatile tinnitus.

Background

The noise started quietly but continuously in 2006, with no discernible cause. It got louder until it was severely disrupting. I dreamed of sirens and fire engines for months. All I wanted was to stick a screwdriver into my ear to make it stop. Listening to classical music was gone forever because I couldn't listen to shades of volume. I had to give up studying , had to take time off of work and was involved not only with my local ENT department, but also my work's occupational health team.

I had many hearing tests, a standard MRI scan, have tried a masking device and had a series of appointments with a psychologist, who had me try EFT and who spectacularly failed to notice that I was bipolar. Eventually, my then work's occupational health department came to the tentative conclusion that I had some low frequency hearing loss.

My depression became too bad to continue swimming against the tide, , especially considering that I was battling gallstones at the time, for which I finally had surgery after a number of emergency admissions due to the pain.

I no longer have a gall bladder.

During my last "high" my main employment was work in a call centre for which I could and did use my good ear. I did not return to study.

Now

That's all that out of the way. I noticed an article in something that might loosely be termed a "newspaper" some time ago about a man who could "hear his eyeballs move" and also hear his heartbeat. He had been cured!

I looked him up and found out that he had something called Superior Canal Dehisence Syndrome. I looked into it, and eventually came upon this website, full of similar success stories and many other causes of the terrible noise I've been suffering with.

By this time, I can no longer watch television without subtitles, and have developed an ectopic heartbeat which I am sure relates to the stress of hearing every single heart beat. See if you can watch this smilie for a full minute and notice each beat...

If I press on my jugular vein, I can make the noise stop for a few seconds if it's important. For instance, if I can't hear what someone else is saying. I have experienced many tension headaches due to unconsciously favouring that side with the tilt of my head and a myriad other things I'm not going to list.

Finally (for this post, anyway), this is the closest to the sound I hear 24/7.

I will from this point on post about what happens next and what I experience as I try to get to the bottom of it. I do foresee some difficulty...