Ok people, just to share some info after I have done a titanic work to cope with tinnitus.
My tinnitus started on March 18 after 10 half pills of Perindopril. It was 100% drug induced after taking ototoxic drugs. It was pretty bad, so bad that I could hear it on the noisy street. I was at doctors office 72 hours after onset but he just told me to go home and wait, because my tinnitus did not register on an audiogram.
After a week of torture I checked into a hospital through an emergency. I was lucky and a young doctor ordered a high frequency audiogram where a hearing loss was registered around 14 kHz.
The default treatment started which over here is intravenous injection of dexamethasone for 7 days.
The tinnitus came significantly down but after stopping dexamethasone about 50% of it came back immediately.
It was still unbearable.
I asked my doctor for injections into ear but it is not practiced at all here.
I found a doctor who agreed to insert a ventilation tube (I must agree it is much more effective way than transtympanic injections) and I was able to administer dexamethasone through a tube myself for two-three weeks.
The tinnitus came down almost to zero in one ear, not so much in another.
So the third step what I did was order a microwick from the US and ask my doctor to insert a microwick and administer dexamethasone through it. Results were very good.
I did only one ear so far and tinnitus is almost gone now.
I still have tinnitus in another ear and I am planning to do Microwick once more for the other ear.
All in all the reduction in tinnitus is about 90%.
I hope after the last microwick it will be almost gone.
It took me about 6 months to fuck with the tinnitus.
The only technique that worked for me was microwick, as the problem is how to get medication into the inner ear. It is a technical problem and I can't see anything better than a wick.
I hope my post can be of help to someone with a drug induced tinnitus.
A word of caution dexamethasone can have some bad side effects - in my case it was pulmonary embolism.
My tinnitus started on March 18 after 10 half pills of Perindopril. It was 100% drug induced after taking ototoxic drugs. It was pretty bad, so bad that I could hear it on the noisy street. I was at doctors office 72 hours after onset but he just told me to go home and wait, because my tinnitus did not register on an audiogram.
After a week of torture I checked into a hospital through an emergency. I was lucky and a young doctor ordered a high frequency audiogram where a hearing loss was registered around 14 kHz.
The default treatment started which over here is intravenous injection of dexamethasone for 7 days.
The tinnitus came significantly down but after stopping dexamethasone about 50% of it came back immediately.
It was still unbearable.
I asked my doctor for injections into ear but it is not practiced at all here.
I found a doctor who agreed to insert a ventilation tube (I must agree it is much more effective way than transtympanic injections) and I was able to administer dexamethasone through a tube myself for two-three weeks.
The tinnitus came down almost to zero in one ear, not so much in another.
So the third step what I did was order a microwick from the US and ask my doctor to insert a microwick and administer dexamethasone through it. Results were very good.
I did only one ear so far and tinnitus is almost gone now.
I still have tinnitus in another ear and I am planning to do Microwick once more for the other ear.
All in all the reduction in tinnitus is about 90%.
I hope after the last microwick it will be almost gone.
It took me about 6 months to fuck with the tinnitus.
The only technique that worked for me was microwick, as the problem is how to get medication into the inner ear. It is a technical problem and I can't see anything better than a wick.
I hope my post can be of help to someone with a drug induced tinnitus.
A word of caution dexamethasone can have some bad side effects - in my case it was pulmonary embolism.
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