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Same except for me it was covid. It's likely caused by eustachian disfunction and they've all told me it takes so long to correct itself.

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I may be having this now, E-Tube tinnitus due to seasonal allergies and inflammation, likely worsened by prior earwax/infection/COVID factors.

It's been 3 months of pulsatile tinnitus, this week I am finally waking up in silence some days, but it returns by the afternoon.

Can people close to you hear your tinnitus as well?

I don't believe so. Maybe I should buy a stethoscope and check. I've been referred to an ENT but the waitlist is stupidly long, in Canada.

It took me 3 months to get into ENT here, and while they are very kind - it added nothing for me personally (i.e. we don't have a good solution for tinnitus, here are some things to avoid, etc etc). I hope your visit bears more fruit!

That's what I anticipate but mostly I want to rule out any serious causes as my tinnitus is low-pitched, both irregular and regular patterned, pulsatile, is affected by my head position and physical exertion, and fluctuates every other day. It is unlike the continuous high-pitch tinnitus that most articles describe.

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