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That is not good, I don't know why medical personnel don't seem to be aware of the tinnitus risks of some drugs. Standard antidepressants made mine spike, so did the antibiotics I had to take. Good news is, the spikes weren't permanent. Hope it is the same for you.

Wait, so they're just expecting you to come off them without more tapering?!

@vilebubbles Time is a big part of it, many people find their severe tinnitus settles down eventually. Distraction (trite I know), I read a lot as it's the only thing that helps. There's also promising research ongoing. As I said before you are fairly new into this phase, it is so hard I know...

I think my low improvement is that I listened to Audiology & tried the gradual sound exposure route & it made it worse. Some people improve with sound, I'm not one of them. I also live on a main route for emergency vehicles & every time I take my ear defenders off I get blasted with the sirens...

Seriously thought I was going to check out in the first year it was that bad, but hang in there. It's still reactive, it's intrusive, it's a big restriction on my life as I'm still pretty much housebound, & I have problems sleeping but I'm not in as dark a place at present. So it can improve in...

Mine went from mild T & no H to catastrophic reactive T & H literally overnight & ENT told me after the scan showed nothing that they are not sure what caused the worsening. The musical hallucinations took about 10 days to kick in but they've been 24/7 ever since. Today I have hissing, a very...

@vilebubbles Weirdly enough yesterday was the first time I've been on the site for a while. No I hadn't really improved but the Covid seems to have left me with a louder baseline tinnitus plus some other stuff unrelated to my ears. Have they pinpointed any reason for your tinnitus increase...

Hi @vilebubbles Thanks for the comment. I'm surviving. 1 step forward 2 back at the moment. It didn't help that I caught Covid for the first (& hopefully only) time in Dec 2023 which seems to have exacerbated my long-term issues. How are you doing presently?

@ECP Thank you, I appreciate it.

@ECP Due to a rare gastric issue, my GP advised me against taking NAC due to possible gastric side effects. Condition unfortunately impinges a lot on the meds I can/can't take, even supplements.