L-Citrulline Caused Tinnitus?

[josf3]

Took two grams of l citrulline today and experienced immediate ringing in my ears.

It has been 4 hours and am still experiencing the ringing. I am very worried that I may have gotten tinnitus from this. I never read any side effects of this supplement causing tinnitus.

Do you think I have done damage that is permanent or could this be a side effect due to the blood flow from the nitric oxide. Please help.

 

[billie48]

Welcome to the forum. It is not easy for us to say if damage has been done or that your T will stay. Perhaps get an ENT or doctor to assess the ears. But if your T is bothering you, try masking it so you won't panic and get too stressful which can aggravate T. Your T is very new so it may just fade. If you need some suggestions on masking, here are some options:

1) Mask at bed time so you can sleep better. Find whatever sounds/music that are soothing to you. You can use a sound machine or sound pillow for this, or a computer with speakers.

2) If you need masking on the go, try load an ipod with nature sounds or music using itune. If you have a smart phone, you can download free APPs for soothing or T-masking sounds.

3) If you have computer and speakers, you can try these excellent masking sounds too:

TT's audio player: https://www.tinnitustalk.com/audioplayer/

or this online sound library, particularly the self-mix nature sounds: https://mynoise.net

or download free sound generator 'aire freshener': http://www.peterhirschberg.com/mysoftware.html

or search youtube with words like 'tinnitus masking sounds', 'white noise', 'rain sound' etc.

 

[DebInAustralia]

I read somewhere that L citrulline is converted to L arginine, which can aggravate hsv. Thats the only connection i can think of. Antivirals if you suspect this may be the case?

 

[josf3]

Took omega 3 and it seriously aggrevated the ringing even more. Can someone explain to me what is going on?? Why did the ringing start immedatly after taking l citrulline to increase blood flow? Please help