Flashing sound

[wbizzaro]

I am a 42 year old man and for the past 3-4 weeks I have been experiencing what I can only explain as a flashing sound in my head. I dont experience the visual flashing it is all audibile in my head it happens different times throughout the day and I have no clue what it is. Any ideas

[ameliejune]

did you mean like a flushing sound,or you can call it whooshing sound of blood,like you can hear the pulse of you heartbeat?i am experiencing them,and i can hear it in my left ear. ct scan did not picked up anything but mri and angiogram gave the doctors a clearer view why.i have a left transverse arteriovenous fistula and it's a question if i have the cavernous arteriovenous fistula too,as my left eye was affected.at first my eye was swollen,and the pain behind it was horrible,and my eye protrude.it left me with a blurred vision now and i had a retinal hemorrhage too.doctors put me on warfarin tablet,a blood thinner.
my advice.go and see your doctor before something will happen.

[Dr. Kokil Mathur]

Hi!
What you have is probably tinnitus or an abnormal sound in the ear which does not have a source in the outside world, originates internally and can be heard as a ringing, swishing, pounding, flashes—etc.
There are many medical causes for tinnitus. Besides loud noises, other causes include severe head trauma, sinus and respiratory infections, ear infections, wax build-up, high blood cholesterol, food allergies, and certain types of tumors.
Other possible causes of tinnitus have their origin in either your ear (Ménière's disease, otosclerosis, middle ear infections,   wax in your ear canal and TMJ), or auditory nerve (which carries signals from your inner ear to your brain like acoustic neuroma), and side-effects of medicines (aspirin, quinine, some antibiotics etc). Tinnitus can also be stress related.
Please consult an ENT specialist and your primary doctor and get this investigated.
Take care!