My old thread resurrected!
I couldn't be bothered to read all the posts so can't remember if I posted to tell everyone what was causing mine.
Before I freak anyone I would like to say that true pulsitile tinnitus is there 24/7, it does not come and go.
I can ignore mine nearly all the time but if asked to listen for it even in a noisy room I can hear it when I tune it to it so if yours comes and goes its not true pulsitile tinnitus, its still tinnitus but not quite the same .
I freaked myself out reading all the worst case scenarios about causes of constant pulsing in one ear and was convinced I had a blood vessel about to burst in my head, I paid for a mri scan as nhs only scanned my neck arteries and the mri found a teeny weeny cyst on my brain stem near where the jugular artery enters brain and this is what I am hearing as the cyst is transmitting the sound through my skull to my ear. Only I could have this
I had a repeat mri two years later and the cyst hasn't changed so thats that.
It would not have mattered whether I had the scan or not but I wanted to rule out the about to burst blood vessel in brain which of course I did not have.
So to all of you with intermittant whooshing in ears this is nearly always caused by ear/simus issues or side effect of tablets. My husband gets lots of catarrh in his inner ears and he gets the whooshing on and off as well so nothing to worry about.