Thank you! It doesn't make your T worse? That is obviously my worst fear
It is one of those drugs that both has T as a side effect AND has been used to Treat T.
Another name for this drug is elavil
http://www.ehealthme.com/ds/elavil/tinnitus/
Note, above they report a fraction of all who had T - this is a fraction of everyone who reports having a side effect, it is NOT a fraction of everyone who took that drug.
http://www.ehealthme.com/ds/amitriptyline-hydrochloride/tinnitus/
is for the same drug (you can verify that it is for the same drug on
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amitriptyline )
There is a lot of research on the use of this drug to Treat T
https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?hl=en&q=Amitriptyline+tinnitus&btnG=&as_sdt=1,5&as_sdtp=
For example,
https://www.researchgate.net/profil...n_tinnitus/links/54f637780cf27d8ed71d6c1b.pdf
"
The use of amitriptyline at 10 mg three times per day for
10 weeks (in a single blind study) was compared to biofeed-
back, sham biofeedback or placebo drug in 225 tinnitus
patients (Podoshin et al., 1995). Exclusion criteria were
Meinere's disease, acoustic neuroma and otosclerosis.
The amitriptyline group reported greater improvement
than either control group, but the biofeedback group
reported greater improvement than the amitriptyline
group. The improvement was asked about at rest and with
activity and no tinnitus questionnaires were used. No
change occurred in tinnitus loudness based on tinnitus
matching. No average age was provided (range was 23–
72 years old), nor was average tinnitus duration provided.
Fifty-three percent of the patients were men. No psycho-
logical measures were used and no specified tinnitus sever-
ity was required to enter the trial. It is presently unknown
whether therapeutic dose of antidepressants would be the
same for the treatment of tinnitus as for the treatment of
depression or anxiety disorders but the dose provided in
this study was much lower than the standard dose given
for depression or anxiety disorders of 50 mg to 150 mg
total daily dose.
In another study using higher doses of amitriptyline,
more definitively positive results were obtained. In a single
blind randomized placebo controlled trial (37 tinnitus
patients) of amitriptyline 100 mg vs. placebo for five weeks,
a significant decrease in subjective complaints of tinnitus,
as assessed by a modified version of the Tinnitus Patient
Survey by the American Tinnitus Association was reported
(Bayar et al., 2001). Additionally, there was a significant
decrease in tinnitus dB in the amitriptyline group but not
in the placebo group; the right ear revealed a 17 dB
decrease from pre- to post-treatment and the left ear a
13 dB decrease compared to a 2 and 4 dB increase for the
placebo group. The average age in this study was 41 years
old and 50% of patients were male. No average duration of
tinnitus was given but the range was from 4 to 20 years.
There was no severity required to get into this study. It
was noted in the publication that none of the patients
had a history of depression but it was not stated how this
was assessed. No follow up double blind studies using ami-
triptyline were conducted to our knowledge."
It hasn't had any impact on my T...
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