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@Chinmoku I have been on Xanax, Prozac, Ambien for 25 years. It has helped me survive my severe tinnitus.

Fluoxetine (prozac). Unfortunately, I've heard that it might make it worse, but I think I owe a large part of my recovery (mental approach) to the prozac. I was on it before (for depression), and had come off it when I had my last and worst episode.

Even antidepressants, like Prozac, take at least a month to become fully effective, so with the trial being 28 days it is comparatively short. They are both neurological drugs but work on different mechanisms of the brain. The time period to declare Prozac ineffective is 8 weeks after starting...

@PeteJ Xanax, Prozac, Ambien, that is my life right now.

I took Prozac 80mg for nearly 10 years and never had my ears ring. I also have taken Luvox, Paxil, and Zoloft. Never experienced any tinnitus with these. Same with Risperdal.

It's still possible that your tinnitus could ease once you've reduced or stopped taking Prozac. And if you do need to take an AD, perhaps another type may be gentler on the ears.

I was on Prozac when I got tinnitus. I was taking for OCD. Wish there was something better for OCD then SSRIs in the medication realm. Had good luck with Ketamine but too expansive.

Any thoughts on Prozac?I'm afraid to take

@Allan1967 Hi Allan, How is the Prozac working out for you?

...me not be miserable is Klonopin. I take .5 mg once every 2-3 days but I'm considering taking it regularly as I'm feeling desperate. I tried Prozac and quit it after 1 week as it seems to have caused this bout of severe depression I'm dealing with now. Can anyone provide any insight as to...

@jeannie I have tried Prozac it didn't affect my tinnitus. But I could not get on well with this antidepressant it made me feel like a zombie. So the doctor prescribed me with Amitriptyline which I'm happy to be on now. Antidepressants don't suit everyone having said that you might be fine on...

Louise, it's fluoxetine (prozac). I'm still on it.

Oh man, I hate being polydrugged. 2 times the effect of Prozac and this is the lesser effect. Thank you for sharing this.

...has become loud in my right ear and I’m trying to adjust to it but finding it extremely difficult. It’s been worse for about four weeks now. Prozac helped me all those years ago as my tinnitus was extremely loud. Although I’ve read on here that Prozac can cause tinnitus too. What medication...

...treatment is over. At this point, it would seem that my symptoms are closely related to the infection in both ears, but I've also decided to stop taking Prozac due to its potentially ototoxic side effects. I'm curious to see if the absence of Prozac will bring further improvements to my...

When drug companies lose their patent they usually come out with another drug which is nearly the same drug. Pfizer did this, when they lost the patent on Effexor, they launched Pristiq which is actually the main metabolite of Effexor, venlafaxine hydrochloride. Pristiq was marketed for major...

Have you tried Paroxetine / Prozac?

Propranolol and Prozac.

@aot Yes, Prozac could negatively affect your tinnitus, but that doesn't mean it will. Taking any drug is always a risk. Fluoxetine (Prozac) and another drug caused my tinnitus, and it may well be making my tinnitus worse than it would be if I didn't take the drug. Therefore I am gradually...

I've heard of different medications (Xanax, Prozac, etc.) affecting Visual Snow, both good and bad. Granted, it's all anecdotal.

I'm in the same boat, struggling day to day and my GP prescribed 20mg Prozac. I haven't tried it, seems to be a big gamble.

Do all these meds really help with depression? I read that they don’t. How do you feel?

The post below would seem to completely refute your assertion that antidepressants don't cause (or worsen) tinnitus (from THIS POST). You seem to be making the point that tinnitus and possible tinnitus treatments need to be looked at almost entirely from a scientific perspective. Since so...

Just a thought, why don't you try the liquid Prozac? It may be easier to withdraw from dosage wise if you do decide to withdraw from this drug.

I really would like to find out what my tinnitus woud be like if I came off of Prozac. I came off of propranolol ages ago though, and that may have played as much a part in my getting tinnitus as the Prozac.

Like Prozac, paroxetine (Paxil) is an SSRI antidepressant. Since the two drugs are so closely related, if Prozac did not adversely affect your tinnitus, it is very unlikely that Paxil will. If for some reason it does, your tinnitus should settle back down upon cessation of the Paxil. Just...

...Wellbutrin and terrible side effects from Cymbalta (all this pre-tinnitus), then Zoloft post-tinnitus which temporarily elevated it while taking it, he wanted to try Prozac but then decided on Remeron. Firstly, he wants to get my sleep on track. Then, I guess my doseage will gradually be...

Even shakes? Ive got those today :( been on my new tablets prozac for few days.

...was first prescribed for anxiety and trouble sleeping - I could tolerate the tinnitus then but a few years later a Doctor prescribe me Prozac for anxiety as well, and she knew I had tinnitus and being a Dr she should be familiar with the Physicians Desk Reference that says that Prozac causes...

...in August which allowed me to eat and sleep again, but made me tired. So in October my doc took me off that antidepressant and prescribed Prozac and Ativan. Instantly my ears began to ring. I contacted my doc and he told me this can be a temporary side affect of the Prozac. He instructed me...

Do they help?

@gav01 have you ever been insitutionalised? Have you been on Xanax, Prozac, Ambien? What have you tried to cope?

@Ctw -- Prozac is known to be ototoxic, so it seems likely it's causing your tinnitus to spike. It's done so with many others on this forum. Personally, I wouldn't touch it with a 10' pole. You may want to reconsider taking it. You may also want to check out a post on some of the history of...

I know there’s loads of posts about Prozac but I have just taken one and feel awful, tinnitus is screaming and I’m so spaced out. What are people’s thoughts on taking it?

Has anyone's tinnitus caused by SSRIs gotten better after stopping? I've been on Prozac for a week and mine is super loud. Thinking I'll stop tomorrow.

How long were you on fluoxetine? Was your taper 3 months or did your tinnitus subside 3 months after stopping it?

Nope. I stopped the Gabapentin but I remain on 1.5 mg of Klonopin daily along with 40 mg Prozac, 50 mg Naltrexone, 50 mg Elavil, and various supplements. I am getting better. Honestly I think time is the biggest factor. I am over 2 years in and much better than a year ago. It's still there but I...

For how long did you take Prozac? I also got a spike from it this year :( Now 3 months later, and it didn't go back to baseline level.

Has anyone had any success with Prozac? On day 5 and feel like my tinnitus is louder but hoping it will help anxiety and depression... Any thoughts??

According to Wikipedia: It is sometimes used off-label in the management of moderate to severe cases of serotonin syndrome, a complex of symptoms associated with the use of serotonergic drugs, such as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and monoamine oxidase inhibitors), and in cases of...

Damn you are so young to be going through this. You are very brave. Sorry I don't have experience with Prozac - try the search function in the forum? Hopefully with just 1 low dose the effect will wear off soon.

Back then my GP prescribed me Ativan sublingual as rescue medicine and Prozac as AD as I was dealing with relentless anxiety and panic attacks. Try to use the benzos for short term. Later on when the Prozac kicked in to reduce the symptoms of the panic attacks. I phased out Ativan slowly. So...

i still find it hard to believe that medications can do lasting damage... you're still fairly recent into it

Hi there! How is it going for you, how are you doing these days? I am in a similar situation as you but my onset was triggered by Wellbutrin so now I am severely wary of any new drug.

7 days ago I started taking 5m of Prozac. I think it's given me a spike in my tinnitus or I'm just hyper-focused on it, and I cannot stop worrying and freaking out about it. This morning I woke up and I've been crying ever since. I feel like I've made my tinnitus worse when I KNEW SSRIs can...

Had fleeting t multiple times daily for the first 2 1/2 months. Started again a month ago when I began taking Prozac and Nortriptyline.

Has anyone been prescribed Prozac for T. I had sudden onset of T about 3 months ago, and can't sleep without some medication.

I was just prescribed 20mg Prozac for depression and anxiety centered around my hearing loss and tinnitus. I don't think I'm going to bother with it, though. Give me FX-322 or give me death.

...are not improving. I have never been on antidepressants previously. I want to view this as short term, but if I did get them prescribed, unsure how long to be on them. A friend of mine who is on Prozac (Fluoxetine) said it helped her immensely & couldn't do without it now. Any suggestions?

Feel you on this. Sometimes feeling like I will always be on benzos. I am thinking about Bacopa which is supposed to reset the receptor or upregulates them. Nasty vile drugs.

It came on when I had a combination of Prozac and Propranolol. The dose of Prozac was upped from 20 mg to 60 mg in one go without going to 40 mg first. I was stressed at the time too and not being active, i.e. lying in bed a lot of the time. Then a month or so later an MRI made my tinnitus worse...

I tried many SSRIs... last was Prozac for a week... I’ve been having a spike since and I stopped two weeks ago.

I'm really curious on this, too. I would like to try an anti-depressant but it seems every one has someone saying it makes tinnitus worse. I took Prozac on and off throughout my life and never felt I developed anything from it pre-tinnitus, but at this point I'm a little scared to take it again.

For real??? :banghead: :( :eek:

Pretty sure due to an ototoxic reaction to Prozac and/or Propranolol. I'm gutted by it.

Any thoughts on taking Prozac? Will it make tinnitus worse? I'm depressed because I have tinnitus so I don't want to make it louder. Thanks!

Sorry to hear all this, but there are a lot of promising treatments in the making, a few of them involve the healing of hearing loss. If you look in the Research News and Treatments section you will find interesting and promising information.

It's hard to say. It's different for every person. Some of the ADs I've tried have made things worse so I immediately stopped taking (like Prozac). As far as helping the tinnitus, the goal is to take something that calms the associated anxiety and depression... I can say that Klonopin really...

...a first-line drug in the treatment of tinnitus (ATA especially ...) and others argue that there is sufficient evidence. In my case, using both Prozac, paroxetine, sertraline, escitalopram I only had a worsening. The only AD that gave me slight benefit are the old tricyclics such as...