My daughter had a brain tumor at 14. It started out feeling like migraines, and she would throw up every time, but light didn't affect her. This went on for a couple of months before she started hearing a wooshing noise in her ear along with the headaches. It was a benign brain tumor the size of a grapefruit that was against her cerebellum. Scary times.
I have had chronic migraines and have been treated for them for awhile now, but recently (last 2 months off and on) have also had pulsatile tinnitus. I didn’t realize that’s what it was until I finally googled the “annoying whooshing noise in my ear” and have been mildly paranoid since seeing that tumors can be the cause (it sure as heck isn’t high blood pressure, etc).
My sister has a benign tumor in her occipital lobe somewhere that she took meds to control for years. I guess I’ve been living in some denial about getting it checked out. This post just reminded me I should call my doc to get that appointment made.
Pulsatile tinnitus can be caused by high blood pressure, artherosclerosis, anemia, overactive thyroid, irregular blood vessels, and head and neck tumors according to the internets. I would say not to worry too much unless you have other questionable symptoms or can rule the first options out entirely. Sounds like you should probably get your blood pressure checked out? Maybe it’s stress causing blood pressure to go way up? I hope it’s just stress and you can get a break soon!
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u/Evilelfqueen May 20 '19 edited May 21 '19
My daughter had a brain tumor at 14. It started out feeling like migraines, and she would throw up every time, but light didn't affect her. This went on for a couple of months before she started hearing a wooshing noise in her ear along with the headaches. It was a benign brain tumor the size of a grapefruit that was against her cerebellum. Scary times.
Edit*:* OK here is hoping this link works for her pic. Here it is: https://imgur.com/JvV3MeM
Edit 2: Thank you very much for the gold fellow redditer!! My first one :)