Tinnitus stops when I drop my head forward

[XyZed]

My Tinnitus keeps changing. It started off as Pulsatile tinnitus where I could just hear my heartbeat in my right ear. Now I'm getting almost constant tinnitus with regular bouts of loud alarm-like tinnitus. A high-pitched tone pulses loud and quiet like a smoke alarm, in exact time with my current heartbeat.

But when this happens, if I put my head forwards, so my chin is on my chest, the tinnitus stops dead. If I concentrate, I can just about detect it's there at say volume 1 instead of 100. When I raise my head back up, it comes back at full volume. It's pretty weird. Does anyone have an explanation for this?

[Happyrosie]

I’ve just re-read the Tinnitus UK explanation of PT. Whilst I dont suffer it myself, the explanation given by TUK (you can find it on their website by putting “pulsatile” into the search box top left) seems to me to I dictate that this could be a normal way the blood flows because you move your head.

Tinnitus can and does change with time.

You said your PT was diagnosed by a consultant and I take it there was nothing they could offer to alleviate the symptoms.

[LondonWigan1313]

Im exactly the same! Got told there maybe a compression of some sort somewhere a vein artery nerve etc Scans showed both sides of my neck just below ears behind jaw my arteries have calcified hardened narrowed restricting blood flow that goes to face ears brain.Cannot be reversed only managed with medications.

[DanielaHobbs_]

Hi, again, I also have this siren like symptom, rhythmic and similar to the whoosh. how are you feeling now?

[XyZed in reply to DanielaHobbs_]

Hi. I’m still waiting for the specialist appointment, but after a few weeks it stopped as suddenly as it appeared. It’s all so bizarre.

[DanielaHobbs_ in reply to XyZed]

oh thank God it has stopped. it is driving me crazy. I have both this whoosh that , as you describe, influences all type of white noise and makes it sound in synch with the whoosh (heartbeat), plus the same siren you describe. All of this has come up suddenly for no reason. You said you had hearing loss after the whoosh, was that sudden and total? my hearing test hasn't changed but I cannot help but think that some damage must have happened to provoke all this.

[XyZed in reply to DanielaHobbs_]

Hi Daniela. Yes, after it stopped I had 90% hearing loss in the affected ear. But it wasn’t too noticeable unless I blocked my good ear. Then slowly the hearing has improved a lot. I haven’t had any tinnitus or whooshing or distorted hearing for several weeks.

[DanielaHobbs_]

hi  XyZed I am so sorry about the hearing loss but extremely pleased to hear that you haven’t had tinnitus, whooshing or distorted hearing for several weeks. That s extraordinary! The sudden hearing loss is bizarre and rare (was it sudden sensorineurial hearing loss - SSHL - I gather)? Did you have a virus or did something happen just before it happened, or was there no apparent reason for it? Did the doctors send you for any MRI or CT?