What Are Recovery Stats for Ototoxicity Induced Tinnitus?

[Arseny]

Hello,

If any of you have information regarding recovery rates for ototoxicity induced tinnitus please post them here.

There's a lovely thread regarding noise induced tinnitus by @Bill Bauer, but I can't seem to find any information regarding tinnitus induced by ototoxic medication/antibiotics.

Thank you.

 

[Geekysugar]

I'm interested in this as well.

 

[Agrajag364]

Hello,

If any of you have information regarding recovery rates for ototoxicity induced tinnitus please post them here.

There's a lovely thread regarding noise induced tinnitus by @Bill Bauer, but I can't seem to find any information regarding tinnitus induced by ototoxic medication/antibiotics.

Thank you.

@Bill Bauer might correct me if I'm wrong but hard data on recovery for tinnitus induced by different things is hard to come by. It might not matter, because the same physiological processes might be happening.

 

[Bethj251]

I'm interested, too! I think my tinnitus was caused by Tamiflu. The drug literature lists tinnitus as a very small percentage effect, but my ears started ringing a few minutes after I took the very first dose, and for more than a year, they've never stopped ringing. A hearing test revealed that my hearing is normal so mine is not due to hearing loss.

 

[Marcus Skye]

Also very interested in data for drug-induced onset. My ears hurt from loud noises and these make the T worse so I wear earplugs. Also gets louder as the day progresses.

 

[erik]

Generally, hearing damage is only permanent in very small percentage of people and usually if you exceed the recommended dosage. Many people who experience tinnitus due to medications improve once these meds are stopped within a few weeks or months depending on how long you took the medication.

The real distinction is drugs which can cause hearing loss as a side effect and drugs which cause tinnitus as a side effect - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3138949/. Almost every drug causes tinnitus as a side effect, however, rarely permanent at normal doses.

Here is some info on ototoxic meds - https://www.americanear.com/your-hearing/ototoxic-medicines-list

 

[Fabrikat]

The real distinction is drugs which can cause hearing loss as a side effect and drugs which cause tinnitus as a side effect

Wouldn't they be one and the same? Tinnitus occurs when hearing loss develops, perhaps not always measured on a regular audiogram because the loss occurs at the upper frequencies.

Damage from things such as aminoglycoside antibiotics and cancer drugs such as Cisplatin permanently destroy hair cells and even other parts of the auditory system.

I'm don't think there's any recovery possible from this kind of damage. And there's a question mark over whether even promised treatments such as FX-322 would have any restorative effect on this kind of hearing loss and tinnitus.