Hva slags lyd er det snakk om, som andre kan høre? Kan ikke være den intense pipingen, være seg høy- eller lavfrekvent, jeg forbinder med tinnitus.

In some cases, a clinician can perceive an actual sound (e.g., a bruit) emanating from the patient's ears. This is called objective tinnitus. Objective tinnitus can arise from muscle spasms that cause clicks or crackling around the middle ear.[15] Some people experience a sound that beats in time with the pulse (pulsatile tinnitus, or vascular tinnitus).[16] Pulsatile tinnitus is usually objective in nature, resulting from altered blood flow or increased blood turbulence near the ear (such as from atherosclerosis or venous hum,[17]) but it can also arise as a subjective phenomenon from an increased awareness of blood flow in the ear.[16] Rarely, pulsatile tinnitus may be a symptom of potentially life-threatening conditions such as carotid artery aneurysm[18] or carotid artery dissection.[19] Pulsatile tinnitus may also indicate vasculitis, or more specifically, giant cell arteritis. Pulsatile tinnitus may also be an indication of idiopathic intracranial hypertension.[20]