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No, my tinnitus increase from Amitriptyline is constant and it has never gone down. And it was drastic. It’s been over a year now. I have since moved my family across the world and have not been working since the drastic increase. I live in a warm climate now where I can be outside all the time...

Very true. For all the references to Dr. Shore’s device, do we have any idea when the hell it will be available to try? Everyone says we are so close, but I’ve never seen an actual date. You can go back 3 years on Tinnitus Talk and people are saying we’re just about to have access to Auricle. I...

Are you still taking the Keppra? Did it help at all with the tinnitus? My neuro at the Mayo Clinic wants me to try Keppra for my visual snow syndrome, but all I really care about is lowering the tinnitus. The static, floaters, halos etc have nothing on the intrusive high frequency scream in my...

My tinnitus was made significantly worse by a drug so that’s the reason I’m pretty paranoid about ototoxicity. When you introduce agents to the brain that change the chemical balance, it can obviously have drastic effects on tinnitus and many other brain functions. In the end, if one chooses to...

I’d be interested to try Pramipexole. I have visual snow and my tinnitus went from very mild to screaming 10/10 when I took Amitriptyline for my visual snow syndrome. So without question my severe tinnitus and visual snow is a result of a thalamacortical dysrhythmia and I believe the worsened...

Did you take an antidepressant that caused your tinnitus? I thought your tinnitus was from your ear being too close to a car alarm. I know how it is though, often tough to even pinpoint what pushed our brains into this massive dysfunction.

Maybe I missed it but how were you accepted into the study when they aren’t even testing this drug for tinnitus? Were you accepted on the basis for MDD? I’m stuck in what has been a two week long permanent spike and really need something to hope for. Seems like a really long road that this...

Did the doctors in South Korea ever respond about providing info to your doctor on Switzerland?

While I don’t doubt there is some cellular dysfunction and also a devastating effect on the cochlear hair cells, my point is we now have an opportunity to help others by keeping a resolve to figure this out. Throwing in the towel on life in not an option, and I certainly don’t think it’s an...

This is the email address I used when I was corresponding with them: hunman0405@naver.com

Thanks for posting all this time, it is encouraging for sure. I had very very mild tinnitus for 5 months after waking up with visual snow syndrome. Then, my doctor prescribed Elavil and after 10 days, the tinnitus was just absolutely screaming in my ears. That was early February 2022, it has...

Any update on this? My doctor at the Mayo Clinic felt nerve blocks with Lidocaine could be a beneficial option, but she is unwilling to review the South Korean paper that was published detailing how they do it. She said she would just be doing it the way she does for patients with facial pain...

Whatever the Amitriptyline did, it’s has been permanent so far. I have a constant high pitched screaming ring centrally in my brain. The only thing that seems to help is working outside and outside noises - indoor speakers are completely ineffective at masking. Most of the time outdoors I can...

Hi Bryson. I’ve been following this thread as I’ve been on my own journey, eagerly watching how things worked out for you. I have a couple questions if you don’t mind? Sounds like you had a centralized head tinnitus and also a reactive tinnitus in you left ear, and the treatment stopped the...

I would be interested in trying these Lidocaine patches. Also curious if anyone else has tried them? I read the study and couldn’t figure out what part of the body they are putting the patch on? The reductions in TFI scores were pretty good for the 16 patients that stayed in the study... Seems...

Question for you all. Is he saying that this treatment is not helpful for sensorineural tinnitus? I see that he feels it produces great results for somatic tinnitus, but do you all think it’s safe to say this specific treatment will likely not be helpful for purely sensorineural tinnitus?

Hi Bruce - I’ve been off Amitriptyline since the original 10 days I took it. I’m still at about a 9 or 10 on the scale of how loud it is, and also incredibly high pitched and energy behind it throughout my head. So it’s been 6 weeks, and definitely no better despite the fact I’m sleeping a...

The people at this pain clinic responded back to me and said that if your tinnitus resulted from taking an ototoxic med like mine did (from Elavil), their treatment is typically ineffective. So that’s unfortunate, but at least they were honest.

I am certainly considering traveling to South Korea to try this treatment. I have several well-connected friends there that could host me and help with travel details. I’m on indefinite leave from work as my tinnitus has gotten so bad after taking Amitriptyline for 10 days. It went from a mild...

Hi Jason, I got severe tinnitus after 10 days of Amitriptyline on 10 mg and twice at 20 mg. It’s not uncommon as that drug is extremely ototoxic to some people. My tinnitus is a 10/10 or at least what I would assume is as bad as it gets. Before taking Amitriptyline, it was a 2/10 for 5...

Yes, I used Unisom sleep tabs for many years, so I won’t use any anticholinergic drugs for sleep for that reason. I was even hesitant to try Elavil for that reason, with no thought about ototoxicity of course. I will reach out to Dr. Winter, sounds like he was really able to help you. Did he...

Hi all - just created an account. I was diagnosed with Visual Snow Syndrome last September and just recently was prescribed Amitriptyline. I had very mild tinnitus before and now, after taking the Amitriptyline for 10 days, it’s a blood curdling scream and piercing my ears. It’s been over two...