One year ago I had surgery for a bone spur that was beginning to pierce my spinal cord at c5/c6 level...they removed the spur and gave me a fusion....two weeks prior to surgery I developed a constant occipital headache...off the charts in pain....vomiting....couldn't sleep....kept ice on my head constantly...after surgery the headache never let up for 14 weeks...I cried constantly....I lived on Vicodin to keep ot at a level 8 instead of a 10....it also causes recurrent blindness in my left eye...what finally stopped it was a steroid wash into the area by a pain specialist...2days afterward...it was gone....it comes back sometimes once or twice a week...but I take a norco and it wipes mot out....since the headaches have calmed down....I have the pulsating sound in my ears...mine reminds me of the sound of cicadas...sort of a high pitch electronic pulsing...it does follow my heartbeat.