Can Guanfacine Make Tinnitus Worse?

I need to take something for my Covid-induced dysautonomia and POTS, and Guanfacine looks like the one.

The problem is it can cause cause low blood pressure for some people, so I'm worried about that affecting tinnitus.

Does anyone here take it?

 

Dr. Dirk de Ridder prescribes this medication for some of his patients. I think it would be good for the community to have a larger sample size for this survey. It's a pretty common ADHD drug.

 

Guanfacine reduces the heart rate and blood pressure. Elevated blood pressure has been known to cause tinnitus flare-ups. So, Guanfacine can only help, IMO.

 

A lot of these high blood pressure drugs can overcorrect enough to give you hypotension, which can also cause tinnitus; ears are just sensitive to fluctuations in blood flow in general. Guanfacine is also an HCN modulator/closer and HCN channels are suspected to have a role in tinnitus.

 

It's between this and a beta-blocker for me. It would be great if drug surveys on Tinnitus Talk had a larger sample size given the size of this community. I know it's a crap shoot, but some drugs have a much higher probability of causing tinnitus.

 

I've often thought about this. For each treatment thread, a pop-up reminder to enter your experience. We don't need a box for not having tried, though; there is nothing to learn from that.

Do they call it crowd-sensing or something?