Lisa,
I HEAR YOU!
I went through very much the same:
I gained a big alternate pulse: the pulsatile tinnitus went but I gained a very loud, very healthy-sounding other pulse. I had some dizziness post op and what I described as weirdness. So I hear you.
My own experience and take on this is that you’ve just had all the plumbing in your brain redone: what has been low pressure for a long time is suddenly back up to pressure and what has been high pressure is back to where it should be. It’s weird.
How did I get better? I did get better. It took patience, time, and putting much of the experience behind me. It’s very easy to listen to the noises: they just get louder if you listen to them. It’s very easy to worry about each weirdness or each noise. So long as your doc says they got everything needed in the one sitting when you go for that review, then you’re fixed. It takes time for everything to settle down and for the worry to go away. You’ll quite possibly have days of regression, where you experience some odd things that you associate with pre-op if you follow the same path as me, so you need to get anything that seems worrisome checked out but overall, my experience is that it just takes time for everything to settle down.
I got worried about things at about six months post op and got referred back to hospital for some more tests, but there was nothing to be seen, nothing to do and the best advice was to forget about it and put the whole experience behind me.
Hope this helps. Feel free to ask anything you like.
Lots of love,
Richard