I recently was prescribed 7 days of anti-inflammatory painkiller pills for a pulled shoulder that wasn't healing on it's own. I researched the painkiller --Arcoxia-- and it appeared to be like Ibuprofen but with less known ototoxic effects.
I take hearing tests all the time using my noise cancelling Boise headphones and a cellphone app. My worst hearing damage is in my right ear... It's a 45 dB drop drop at 4000 Hz... right where my tinnitus is. My hearing loss test is stable and repeatable... has been for years now.
5 days into the painkiller I noticed my tinnitus was spiking HUGE. So I stopped. It's been 4 days now and the spike continues.... What's worse is it appears my hearing loss has increased. The 4000hz tones I used to be able to hear at the 45 dB setting I now cannot hear at all. At 50 dB I can just barely hear them. Strangely enough, only the area where the worst of the damage already was got affected. Only my worst frequency measurement on my worst ear.
So now what do I do? The tinnitus is crazy. My partial habituation is gone. I am taking Magnesium and Fish Oil but they aren't doing anything. Considering a short term blast of prednisone. No idea of prednisone helps for ototoxic hearing damage vs noise induced.
I take hearing tests all the time using my noise cancelling Boise headphones and a cellphone app. My worst hearing damage is in my right ear... It's a 45 dB drop drop at 4000 Hz... right where my tinnitus is. My hearing loss test is stable and repeatable... has been for years now.
5 days into the painkiller I noticed my tinnitus was spiking HUGE. So I stopped. It's been 4 days now and the spike continues.... What's worse is it appears my hearing loss has increased. The 4000hz tones I used to be able to hear at the 45 dB setting I now cannot hear at all. At 50 dB I can just barely hear them. Strangely enough, only the area where the worst of the damage already was got affected. Only my worst frequency measurement on my worst ear.
So now what do I do? The tinnitus is crazy. My partial habituation is gone. I am taking Magnesium and Fish Oil but they aren't doing anything. Considering a short term blast of prednisone. No idea of prednisone helps for ototoxic hearing damage vs noise induced.
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