Can Tinnitus Be Caused by Pregnancy? I've Now Had Tinnitus for Five Weeks

[Lola808]

I'm 39, soon to be 40. Female. I recently had my first episode of blasting tinnitus in mid April. It woke me up, at first I thought it was a bad hangover from the wine I had the night before. I at first doused it with diazepam that I had on hand to help me sleep. It kept blasting me. Then a few days later found I was pregnant. My body's way of saying don't drink?

I switched to Citalopram, but the side effects were not worth it, my tinnitus did not come down and all I wanted to do was sleep and be alone. I went in and got tested and I have very slight high frequency hearing loss but recognize all words in speech. I notice when I drink wine that I tend to lose my hearing. I'm ok with never drinking again. 100%. I had already slowed down due to Coronavirus and wanting a strong immune system.

I was 50/50 referred to get hearing aids for high frequency hearing loss. Saw two ENTs and two audiologists. My friend ENT said there is no need for hearing aids while the ENT's audiologist said to try them. Then I went to my provider's audiologist who said no need for hearing aids while the ENT said they can't hurt.

So I have been wearing hearing aids.

It has now been 5 weeks with tinnitus. The last week I had no tinnitus in right ear for most part, I sleep very peacefully, I woke up with it in left ear but it goes up and down and sometimes goes away. Till I put in the hearing aids. This seems to turn up the tinnitus in my left ear and it hurts and becomes more reactive as the day progresses. I'll come home take the hearing aids out and it lowers the tinnitus and I'm for most part functioning.

Does anyone know of tinnitus being started in early pregnancy? Non pulsatile. Does anyone think the tinnitus might go away? What are your thoughts on if I should stick with the hearing aids? They are more annoying than anything. I don't want the hair cells I have left for high frequencies to die. I left the hearing aids out today to see what happens in the right ear. You think this is ok?

I've been reading on the device (Lenire) from Dublin? Any opinions on that?

Thank in you in advance.

 

[Daniel Lion]

Hi Lola,

Get rid of the hearing aids and your ENT.
Protect your ears.

The tinnitus may very well go over the next few months.
Take a look at the research section and read about Frequency Therapeutics and other regenerative therapies, that may hit the shelves between 2 and 10 years. Split the difference and call it 5. These drugs will help you, I and many here believe.

 

[Bill Bauer]

It is fading, and this is happening a lot faster than usual. Unless you hurt your ears again, there is no reason why it shouldn't continue to fade.

You will want to make sure that you don't hurt your ears during this period of vulnerability as your body is healing. You will want to avoid taking ototoxic drugs, avoid microsuction or syringing (performed when you need to clean wax out of your ears; a manual tool should be used), and not let your dental hygienist use an ultrasonic scaling tool on you (a manual tool should be used). For more details, see

https://www.tinnitustalk.com/thread...eone-else-who-has-tinnitus.26850/#post-307822

 

[Bill Bauer]

Have you began wearing the hearing aids before you got tinnitus?

Check out
https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/lenire-—-user-experiences-and-reviews.35776/
There are a number of promising treatments in the pipeline, but it will likely take 5 years or more before they are available:

Current Promising Treatments:

Regeneration Therapies:

Cochlear degradation has a strong correlation with tinnitus, therefore, regenerating these structures should benefit tinnitus patients.

Frequency Therapeutics - FX-322 (Phase 2a): Uses 2 molecules which, when injected in the ear, partially reprogram support cells into creating hair cells, while not depleting support cells. When created, hair and support cells release NT3/BDNF to attract neurons, which make the synapse components to communicate. They also added a tinnitus experimental arm and are doing a podcast with tinnitus talk.

Audion Therapeutics - LY3056480 (Phase 2): Uses a molecule which, when injected in the ear, causes support cells to trans-differentiate into hair cells. This does deplete support cells, so multiple uses will have diminishing efficiency. Results are said to come out at the end of April.

Hough Ear Institute - siRNA (Preclinical): Uses siRNA (silencing RNA) which, when injected in the ear, causes support cells trans-differentiate into hair cells. This does deplete support cells, so multiple uses will have diminishing efficiency. In animal testing, hair cells regenerated the synapse components to communicate.

Pipeline Therapeutics - PIPE-505 (Going to Phase 1): Uses gamma secretase inhibitor which, when injected in the ear, causes support cells to trans-differentiate in synapses and hair cells. This does deplete support cells, so multiple uses will have diminishing efficiency. Treatment for tinnitus was shown in their patent.

Hough Ear Institute - NHPN-1010 (Going to Phase 2): Uses a antioxidant (HPN-07) and molecule (NAC) which, when swallowed in pill form, regenerates hair cell synapses in chronic hearing loss models. Also has shown efficiency in animal tinnitus models.

Otomony - OTO-413 (Phase 1): Uses a protein (BDNF) which, when injected in the ear, causes regeneration of synapses. Hidden hearing loss is the loss of synapses connected to hair cells, thus, regenerating synapses can treat this, also with possibly helping tinnitus.

Neuromodulation Therapies:

Neuromadulation has shown efficiency in reducing or eliminating tinnitus by reducing hyperactivity in the area of the brain associated with tinnitus.

University of Michigan - Depending on which has the most effect on your tinnitus, they places stimulation around your head, jaw, and neck. This along with sound timing has shown a 12db tinnitus decrease in their testing.

University of Minnesota - Uses targeted timing based on your tinnitus/EEG to stimulate areas of your neck/head/jaw along with customized treatment for sound timing. Would be the most effective and has cured @kelpiemsp of his tinnitus.

Lenire - Stimulate the tongue along with sound timing has had some positive effects on people tinnitus.

Ion Channel Therapies:

Prof. Thanos Tzounopoulos - RL-81 (Preclinical): A drug based off Trobalt (Retigabine), which has shown positive effects on tinnitus, although having severe side effects. RL-81 aims to reduce side effects drastically by being more targeted, while also having a 15x potency in the targeted area, potentially reducing tinnitus.

There are more treatments coming as well but these are the most popular right now, so don't give up hope! All are planned to release within the next 5-10 years or less.

Does anyone think the tinnitus might go away?

https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/spontaneous-recovery-stats-many-recover-3-studies.21441/

 

[Lola808]

@Bill Bauer one thing you said that does give me hope is that my steady decline is a positive sign. You made my heart sing. Not to loud.. Ha ha...

I honestly do not know what sets the tinnitus off. Since working at home I had increased coffee intake, reduced what I drank but had a bottle of wine that night, did increase the canned meats I ate I guess the preservatives and salts are bad. Every trigger I was playing with. I just did not understand why that day.

I swear I'll never drink again if I can get back to silence.

 

[Bill Bauer]

@Bill Bauer one thing you said that does give me hope is that my steady decline is a positive sign. You made my heart sing.

The scariest/worst kind of tinnitus is the one that's relentlessly at the same volume level and pitch. When it begins fading, it continues to fade unless something happens to get it to stop fading.

One thing to keep in mind is that the more it fades, the slower it begins to fade. This is what one would expect if it were to decrease at a constant percentage rate. Initially 1% of a large number is a large number itself. After the total decreases a lot, 1% of the total is much smaller, and one might not be able to register that change.

Ears heal slowly, but they Do heal.

Mine faded very slowly, but it took 3 years. It would seem to stay at about the same volume for months, and just when I thought it would stay at that level, it would fade a little. Very slow process.

 

[Lola808]

@Bill Bauer or anyone else who might have some input.

Today I was able to go to work. It was amazing. I have slight tinnitus in the back of my left side today. No spikes no anything. That is two days in a row. Could this be a fluke. It is really strange. As I was preparing to fight this till a cure/treatment became available. I am praying and hoping. I almost could not sleep last night as I was afraid once I went to sleep I would wake up with it again. This has been constant for 5 weeks.

So I have scheduled a new session with a Chiropractor Wed and acupuncture on Thursday. The Chiropractor will be a brand new session. Should I maybe avoid it as possibly might change the current course things have taken?

Can anyone explain what could possibly be going on? I do not want to jinx it. Praying Praying Praying.

 

[Lola808]

It's back. Was nice to have a day.

 

[Lola808]

Have you began wearing the hearing aids before you got tinnitus?

Check out
https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/lenire-—-user-experiences-and-reviews.35776/
There are a number of promising treatments in the pipeline, but it will likely take 5 years or more before they are available:


https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/spontaneous-recovery-stats-many-recover-3-studies.21441/

My sister lives in Dublin. If I got Lenire would it maybe help the tingling on left side and hose noise? Would I be eligible to try FX-322 I wonder? Is it moving to phase 3 soon?

 

[Agrajag364]

I'm 39, soon to be 40. Female. I recently had my first episode of blasting tinnitus in mid April. It woke me up, at first I thought it was a bad hangover from the wine I had the night before. I at first doused it with diazepam that I had on hand to help me sleep. It kept blasting me. Then a few days later found I was pregnant. My body's way of saying don't drink?

I switched to Citalopram, but the side effects were not worth it, my tinnitus did not come down and all I wanted to do was sleep and be alone. I went in and got tested and I have very slight high frequency hearing loss but recognize all words in speech. I notice when I drink wine that I tend to lose my hearing. I'm ok with never drinking again. 100%. I had already slowed down due to Coronavirus and wanting a strong immune system.

I was 50/50 referred to get hearing aids for high frequency hearing loss. Saw two ENTs and two audiologists. My friend ENT said there is no need for hearing aids while the ENT's audiologist said to try them. Then I went to my provider's audiologist who said no need for hearing aids while the ENT said they can't hurt.

So I have been wearing hearing aids.

It has now been 5 weeks with tinnitus. The last week I had no tinnitus in right ear for most part, I sleep very peacefully, I woke up with it in left ear but it goes up and down and sometimes goes away. Till I put in the hearing aids. This seems to turn up the tinnitus in my left ear and it hurts and becomes more reactive as the day progresses. I'll come home take the hearing aids out and it lowers the tinnitus and I'm for most part functioning.

Does anyone know of tinnitus being started in early pregnancy? Non pulsatile. Does anyone think the tinnitus might go away? What are your thoughts on if I should stick with the hearing aids? They are more annoying than anything. I don't want the hair cells I have left for high frequencies to die. I left the hearing aids out today to see what happens in the right ear. You think this is ok?

I've been reading on the device (Lenire) from Dublin? Any opinions on that?

Thank in you in advance.

Progesterone goes up in pregnancy from what I've heard and that is one candidate for the increase.