Tinnitus remedies can someone recommend any that actually relieves the ear ringing.?
Thursday, April 30th, 2009 at
3:54 am
My heart breaks when I have to stand by and watch my gran battling to cope with ear ringing! The tinnitus is not the worst of it though, because she struggles to sleep her general health is also starting to suffer. It seems that as she is always so tired and anxious, she doesn't get to sleep for long and nowdays seems to catch every infection that is going around. My theory is that this be resulting from the tinnitis? Where can I get a tinnitus treatment for her.
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Head noise, or ringing in your ears (tinnitus), is common. Damage to auditory cells in your inner ear most commonly results from:
Age-related hearing loss (presbycusis). This process usually begins around age 60.
Noise-related damage to your inner ear. This erosion of your hearing ability may result from excessive exposure to loud noise over a long period of time.
Treatment
Treatment of tinnitus depends on the cause.
If the ringing in your ears is due to age-related hearing loss or damage to your ears by exposure to excessive noise, no treatment can reduce the noise. Treatment consists mostly of managing the problem. Your doctor can discuss with you steps you can take every day to reduce the severity of the noise or to better cope with the noise.
If the ringing in your ears is due to another health condition, your doctor may be able to take steps that could reduce the noise, such as removing impacted earwax. Tinnitus resulting from a vascular condition often can be corrected by fixing the underlying problem. If a medication you're taking appears to be the cause of tinnitus, your doctor may recommend discontinuing the drug or switching to a different medication.
Varying success for medications
Many medications have been tried to relieve tinnitus with varying degrees of success. Tricyclic antidepressants, such as amitriptyline and nortriptyline, have been used with some success, but these medications have troublesome side effects, such as dry mouth, blurred vision and constipation.
Two recent clinical trials found that the migraine medications gabapentin (Neurontin) and acamprosate (Campral), a drug used to treat alcoholism, are effective in relieving tinnitus for some people.
Treatments with limited results
Some other treatments that have been tried, but which have had inconsistent results, are:
Acupuncture
Hypnosis
The herb ginkgo
Cochlear implant, an electronic hearing device
Electrical stimulation
Medications, such as benzodiazepines (nervous system depressants) and baclofen (a muscle relaxant)
Hyperbaric oxygen chamber, a therapy to get a high level of oxygen in your blood
Zinc
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Gosh, I'd love to know also. My husband gets this periodically. I have to imagine this would drive me crazy. I have often heard of home remedies offering possible treatment, but I think that tinnutus is a condition that can actually only be helped by a doctor. In this case, I would speak with her physician. If no insurance, maybe try webmd.com – I go there often with my medical questions. If you decide to try the home remedy route, I like http://www.home-remedies-for-you.com. It is one of the first (if not the first) website that comes up when searching for "home remedies" on yahoo. Best of luck to you!
There's something I saw on TV the other day…. Lipoflavenoid?? I think they said you could get it at Walgreens or something like that.
I did find a website that surprised me as to the causes of tinnitus and some "remedies" … : http://www.t-gone.com/tinnitus/index.htmTinnitus From Prescription Drugs Or Heavy Metal Poisoning
Tinnitus is often caused by a wide variety of medicinal and prescription drugs such as anxiety and depression drugs, anti-malarial medication, blood-pressure controlling medicines, toxins ingested into the body, and heavy metal poisoning.
Tinnitus From Auditory Nerve Damage
People very often confuse auditory nerve damage with outer or middle ear damage such as damage to the the ear drum. If you have suffered damage to the ear drum, this does not mean you have auditory nerve damage.
Chronic Tinnitus
At least 10 million Americans (perhaps as many as 12 million) suffer from tinnitus so chronic that they are are unable to function normally, i.e. tinnitus prevents them from working or living a normal productive life as a result of chronic tinnitus.
Drugs That Cause Tinnitus
This is a very comprehensive list of prescrption drugs and medicines that can cause tinnitus. These medications list tinnitus as one of their side effects.
I hope your gran gets to feeling better
It's tough watching someone you love get old, frail & ill.
Please don't get too stressed out. I know that most people will tell you that there is no hope for a cure but my mom found this website http://www.t-gone.com that gave her a lot of advice in determining the cause of her tinnitus. Surely worth a visit.
Have your Doctor do lab work (draw blood) to check your Vitamin B12 level.
A B12 deficiency CAUSES Tinnitus.
I have this problem. I have to take B12 shots for the rest of my life.
A report issued found that 47% of people with tinnitus and related disorders were found to have vitamin B12 deficiencies.
Before they found my B12 deficiency I was a different person. Tired, frequent upper respritory infections, etc. Like the symptoms you're having.
B12 is neccessary for your nerves, brain & spinal cord health.
I hope this helps!