Hi all. I recently came down with a severe case of the flu and my doctor prescribed me Tamiflu. I was wondering if anyone here had any bad reaction to it as far as their tinnitus goes. I haven't been able to find any direct links to the two. Thank you all.
Tamiflu and Tinnitus
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Hello all,
I have really been going through it and getting sick a lot. I had a flu bug about a week and a half ago and it came back with a vengeance and I ended up having to go to urgent care today because I had 103 fever. I was prescribed Tamiflu and given some ibuprofen for the fever but since taking both of these, my tinnitus is ringing through the roof. I firmly believe that my tinnitus was caused by ototoxicity and I am afraid of taking this Tamiflu if it will end up making my tinnitus permanently worse.
Does anyone have any experience taking Tamiflu and if a spike occurred did it eventually go back down after the medication stopped? My tinnitus is already extremely reactive and I don't want to cause it to get even worse than it already is. Your feedback is appreciated, thank you very much for reading.
-Christina
I have really been going through it and getting sick a lot. I had a flu bug about a week and a half ago and it came back with a vengeance and I ended up having to go to urgent care today because I had 103 fever. I was prescribed Tamiflu and given some ibuprofen for the fever but since taking both of these, my tinnitus is ringing through the roof. I firmly believe that my tinnitus was caused by ototoxicity and I am afraid of taking this Tamiflu if it will end up making my tinnitus permanently worse.
Does anyone have any experience taking Tamiflu and if a spike occurred did it eventually go back down after the medication stopped? My tinnitus is already extremely reactive and I don't want to cause it to get even worse than it already is. Your feedback is appreciated, thank you very much for reading.
-Christina
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I recently had the flu and took tamiflu. My T was very loud over this time, but I was coughing my guts up which I think had a lot to do with it.
Still coughing, still a bit of phlegm 2 weeks on, T has remained loud, although today it was a bit more bearable, Maybe settling down again finally.
Still coughing, still a bit of phlegm 2 weeks on, T has remained loud, although today it was a bit more bearable, Maybe settling down again finally.
@Aussie Lea - I just wanted to double check because my tinnitus was through the roof after taking it. @rhull
has your tinnitus finally settled back down?
has your tinnitus finally settled back down?
