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Where did you get your information from because I have a medical source that says the incidence of tinnitus is over 1% while taking the drug. SSRI discontinuation syndrome can also cause tinnitus. https://www.drugs.com/sfx/citalopram-side-effects.html Common (1% to 10%): Fatigue...

Of course earplugs can cause tinnitus and so can hearing aids when improperly used. Earplugs do block earwax from escaping your ear so it's probably not a good idea to wear them 24/7. They also raise humidity and can cause mold/bacteria growth near the eardrum which can cause tinnitus due to...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3719451/ It seems like it's the natural course of otosclerosis of the stapes if nothing is done to stop it.

Yes acute events do have a good chance of diminishing. If you were in orchestras and bands without hearing protection then unless they played quietly your ears have not been fairly protected from loud noise. Anything over 85 dBa can permanently damage your hearing.

There's two issues just looking at the abstract of the study. It might've been for people with tinnitus only coming from one ear. While the procedure might work for tinnitus coming from one ear it might not work for both ears. Also the follow up time. People who don't have tinnitus right...

If right after the event your ears were muffled but not as muffled anymore then it could've been tonic tensor tympani syndrome not hearing loss. Unless there's some unique situation there's no way that the event you've described can cause a significant amount of hearing loss. It could've been...

Your tinnitus was unlikely to have been caused by that event. Many musicians get permanent tinnitus due to chronic exposure to loud music over a period of years. When people get tinnitus they typically think that the last event caused it and if only that event didn't happen then they wouldn't...

Xanax doesn't help tinnitus overall. It makes it worse when you consider the tinnitus getting off it. When you take Xanax the effect of GABA is increased which causes the body to compensate by increasing glutamate over time to counter the effect. After 6+ weeks tolerance starts to build up...

From what I understand your body begins to develop tolerance to benzos. I don't think they were approved by the FDA for long term use.

Yeah it is worth looking into especially since you have no hearing loss. Look at this success story. https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/it-wasnt-tmj-it-was-just-a-misaligned-jaw.3858/

Hearing aids are more likely to have issues with feedback at higher Hz. Also almost no one has tinnitus frequencies above 12khz or needs to hear sounds above 12khz so with a small market it makes sense that there isn't one but it would be nice if there was a hearing aid out there.

It did start for some reason. Did you happen to go to another ENT for another opinion? Do you happen to have hearing loss/hidden hearing loss? Many things can cause T such as a metabolic disorder, iron deficiency, kidney issues, misaligned jaw, etc... I think it's worth doing more...

What actually causes tinnitus isn't known yet. There's still multiple theories and tinnitus is likely the result of brain reprogramming. Since there is nothing in the pipeline for FDA approval that can actually cure tinnitus the bare minimum is at least 10 years. I'm thinking it will take...

https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/it-wasnt-tmj-it-was-just-a-misaligned-jaw.3858/ https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/seems-a-miracle-cure-tmj-splint.11835/ https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/chewing-biting-jaw-tinnitus-doctor-update.5293/#post-53182 I would go a maxillofacial dentist...

I bet that you were told multiple times that your T is temporary and that there's nothing to worry about. In fact so little to worry about that you don't need to get treatment because it'll go away. If you went to another doctor you'd get a different reason such as medication and then if you...

Benzo withdrawal without tapering is known to cause permanent/louder tinnitus and since benzos are meant to be taken short term I would say that they do not help tinnitus even if they might initially lower volume. Benzos have NEVER been approved for treating tinnitus by the FDA and the EMEA. I...

From what I've read usually very small amounts of MSG that are used in products at the supermarket are safe but mom & pop restauarants that use MSG could possibly put way more MSG than needed. It only takes a tablespoon of MSG to get too much of it. I'm sure some restaurants put that much due...

Benzo withdrawal can cause permanent damage to nerve cells. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzodiazepine https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12467378 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excitotoxicity What benzos do is increase the effect of GABA. This results in an imbalance of glutamate and GABA...

Get a new doctor. Your GP doctor will make a diagnosis based on very limited information. You need to find out what's causing the tinnitus you have. You could end up with permanent tinnitus if the issue isn't fixed. You have ETD and all the doctor did was tell you that you have ETD? No...

Get a new doctor. The one you have is terrible. You should've been referred to an ENT immediately. This is a serious medical issue. You might have very loud tinnitus for the rest of your life. I wouldn't fly until you know exactly what's going on. Airplane cabins change pressure as they go...

Unbalanced air pressure can cause tinnitus usually through eustachian tube dysfunction but I don't buy the hypothesis that tinnitus comes from it because most people with tinnitus have hearing loss. Hearing loss would have to cause the unbalanced air pressure and if there was imbalanced ear...

I think that your tinnitus could be caused by the headmuffs then. They block sound just like ear wax impactions do. You also have acoustic hearing loss on top of that so the auditory cortex in your brain is literally dying for sound hence why you got much stronger tinnitus now. Does this make...

You went back to the doctor and he demanded ear syringing. It means your ears aren't clean yet. I would get them clean. Having an ear plug in your ear all the time can cause wax buildup. Also I have a hunch that ear plugs act almost like ear wax impactions because they block sound. We know...

I haven't found any studies that says that it always kicks in. It just seems to be much more likely to have happened as time passes by. By the one year mark tinnitus is considered permanent. Even if conductive hearing caused the issue and is restored a few months to a year later the tinnitus...

Audiologists are known to not keep up with the latest news. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21723924 Tinnitus can still persist even when the auditory nerve is cut. It's so well known that cutting the auditory nerve is no longer recommended for fixing tinnitus. What more evidence do you...

It happens no matter how small the tinnitus is and even if it's only in one ear. Nobody really knows when it starts but by month 12 it should have centralized by then. If you hear white noise while in a very quiet room then that's actually quiet normal and you might've had it for years but...

The decibel level of the ear syringing largely depends on the width of the tip. A wide tip is much quieter than a thin tip and that could be used. It looks like you have an ear wax impaction if the doctor is unable to see your ear drum. You need to get it fixed unless you want the tinnitus to...

Ok but why though? An ear wax impaction is like an earplug in an ear 24 hours a day. The only impact I see is that it causes the ear drum to vibrate less. There is no nerve damage or anything else that it directly causes. Ear wax impactions can cause tinnitus. This brings me to a logical...

The most important thing is to properly wear them. Most people don't wear them correctly and if not worn correct they offer very little protection.

They are safe at a reasonable volume. I'd like to know what some people think on how they could damage ears if they are at a reasonable volume.

I haven't seen any threads on this. It's well known that lack of sound can cause tinnitus whether it be in a sound proof room, ear wax impaction, or otosclerosis. Only 20-30% of people with otosclerosis have sensorineural hearing loss but 4/5 have tinnitus. Why would hearing loss cause...

I don't see how ear stiffness would directly cause T. I would think that tinnitus might arise due to a lack of sound. Why do people with ear wax impactions sometimes get tinnitus then? People also get tinnitus when in a sound proof room. There's ambient sound everywhere and if hearing loss...

BC was 0db loss and conductive was 30db loss @ 250hz, 30db loss @ 500hz, 25db loss @ 750hz, & 10db loss @ 1khz. Was told (by another person) that most likely it was due to otosclerosis and that it should get worse but it should take a couple of years. Needless to say that I won't be taking any...

I found out that I have a 30db loss below 1khz on my left ear and was diagnosed with mild reverse slope hearing loss. No vertigo, dizziness, pressure, and never had low hum tinnitus. I actually have no tinnitus now except in very quiet rooms. Right ear is fine. Explanation of why this might...

Twenty-two patients with PD attending the motor disorder clinic of a tertiary medical center in 2011 to 2012 were evaluated at baseline and 30 minutes after smoking cannabis using the following battery The link provided doesn't prove anything. It wasn't a double-blind study, no control group...

Anecdotes aren't too useful in determining whether or not something works. Several clinical studies on it has not shown that it directly benefits people with Parkinson's. The video is short because as we all know Marijuana increases dopamine levels but not for that long. Once the "high" wears...

From what I can tell for the vast majority of people it doesn't stick. Most panic attacks/severe stress result in temporary tinnitus so I would go with the hearing damage is also needed for tinnitus idea. Can't know for sure unless a study is done on it. It's thought that Xanax and other...

I think the drugs that are illegal in the US should stay illegal including marijuana. Xanax and other benzos seemed to have caused more problems. They were only approved for short term use and I don't think the side effects of withdrawal were taken seriously enough when they were approved...

Hey at least it's a half decent way to remove snow off a car.

Then you should get your hearing tested. Most people with hearing loss don't notice that their hearing is off. Your doctor is clueless because a hearing test or ENT wasn't recommended. What is your doctor waiting for? Guns can be very damaging when hearing protection is inadequate or isn't...

Another hypothetical reason on why this can happen is that you had hearing damage and tinnitus already but didn't notice it because it was being filtered by the TRN in the brain. People with hearing damage do get tinnitus out of no where sometimes. Were you exposed to any loud sounds...

Earphones are notorious for causing hearing damage. Just be sure the volume isn't loud when you listen to anything on earphones.

I doubt it was a hard drive whine/coil whine. It just happens to have a tinnitus type of sound and it's not loud enough to damage your hearing to cause a notch. You likely got hearing damage from loud sounds throughout your life. Many people use computers every day with coil whine and sleep...

This is very likely to not work more than a placebo for acoustic trauma. In fact it might make tinnitus worse. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4364172/ Cannabinoid CB1 Receptor Agonists Do Not Decrease, but may Increase Acoustic Trauma-Induced Tinnitus in Rats

A balloon pop might be as high as 168 decibels. Other estimates are at 125. It must be for less than a millisecond though. If it was 12-15 feet away I think that you're ok and don't need Prednisone. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4175980/Popping-balloon-louder-SHOTGUN.html

Since the cause of your tinnitus is unknown have you done extensive blood tests? You could have a metabolic disorder caused by a genetic defect which could prevent certain metabolisms to occur. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14964957 There are cures for tinnitus but it depends on what...

So you like to listen to lots of music with the volume at maximum every day and you're asking if you should lower the volume? Do you want "jet engine" tinnitus along with a large power plant transformer attached to your head?

MSG contains glutamate which if taken too much of can damage your nervous system which could worsen tinnitus and cause a lot of other issues. Some places that prepare food may put way too much MSG in the food. I would avoid it or only have very small amounts. As for aspartame safe levels of...

Here's quite a few anecdotes of it causing permanent tinnitus and making tinnitus permanently worse. https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/benzodiazepine-withdrawal-induced-tinnitus.1605/ https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/tinnitus-from-xanax-benzo-withdrawal.10238/ Benzos were never meant to...

Nobody knows for sure yet. Recently more and more has been discovered linking certain antibiotics to permanent nerve damage and tinnitus. http://www.webmd.com/brain/news/20130826/fda-strengthens-fluoroquinolone-warning Amoxicillin seems to be the safest thing out there. It should return to...

These issues could be caused by liver or kidneys not working as they should since it seems your other senses are being impacted. You could try doing a blood test to see if anything is off and if something is found to be off then it might be fixed. Might as well try right? Could also be caused...

If the T is going up and down in volume then most likely a lot of it is panic/stress based which means when it's loud it's just going to be temporary. Baseline would be the lowest volume of T you had since recent onset. If you have a regular doctor I would ask for an ENT specialist because...

That's insane that someone can get tinnitus with perfect hearing and not be able mask it. Did you happen to check and see if each ear can hear tones like 50hz and 10khz at low volumes?

Try playing some masking sounds on your phone and go to sleep not concentrating on the sound. Lower caffeine, salt, sugar before bed etc...

On the plus side there might be a good way to lower T volume or fix it in the future. It might be 10-30 years but it should happen eventually.

I think T without hearing loss is usually milder and less noticeable because it's easier to hear ambient sounds. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18317787 According to the study people with T and without hearing loss are much better off. Masking levels are much lower for those without...

Nobody can say for sure. If your hearing wasn't physically damaged in some way by medication, sound, or something like endolymphatic hydrops then there's a very good chance it should go back down to normal. Ear pain? Could also be an ear infection.

Xanax which is ototoxic for tinnitus? :ROFL: They didn't help you. Find another doctor and you'll find out that your tinnitus was caused by blowing your nose too hard or depression so you need Xanax.

If you don't want tinnitus to be much worse you have to always wear at least 25dB+ musician earplugs or find another profession. Don't take my advice lightly. You don't want tinnitus so loud that you can still hear it on the freeway with the windows down and music blasting.