The founder of wooshers, the Pulsatile tinnitus forum has been in touch again. It seems this time
someone may have successfully used my iOS app
iStethoscope Pro to record the elusive
sound of her condition. This is what she said:
One of our group members has had success listening to the objective pulsatile tinnitus with
your iStethoscope App. She gave me permission to share her experience with you, since I told her
I thought you'd be interested!
She's been diagnosed with superior canal dehiscence and bilateral sigmoid sinus diverticulum.
She has already had surgery on one side to correct it, and is awaiting surgery on the other side.
Anyway, here is the post she shared on our Facebook page. I am fascinated by this and hope to
again ask others --particularly those with a similar diagnosis-- if they too can hear their whoosh
with the app. She is thrilled that she can now share the actual audio sound with her doctors and
everyone. The doctor who performed the surgery --Dr David Eisenman in Baltimore-- is a doctor
I've been in touch with for several years and he has corrected many patients' symptoms.
Do you have an iphone? The app is way cool! the Microphone at the bottom of the phone
is used as the "stethoscope" you put earbud style headphones in and wear them. Then you open
the app and crank the volume...be careful, just like a real steth if youve ever used one, it's
LOUD...dont talk into it lol. You can listen to your heart with it by firmly pressing the bottom of
the phone right where a stethoscope goes...same thing. Put it over you belly, you will hear your
bowel. Put it one the sides of your ribcageor back, and you hear you lungs. Putting it all over
different pulses in the body, I found my venous hum...which i already knew i had even though the
doctors coudnt hear it. Right above the clavicles...I have it both sides and it goes away with certain
head positions.
Emma Greenwood,
Founder & Whoosher-in-Chief,
http://www.whooshers.com/
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