If you’ve been suffering from tinnitus for a while, you have probably already discovered that there are lots of things that can cause your ringing ears. One of the more surprising potential causes of your tinnitus is the medicine you are taking. That’s right. It is actually possible that one of the medications you are currently taking could be the cause (or at least one of the causes of) your tinnitus.
The connection between medications and ringing ears was certainly a surprise to me. The first I heard of it was when my nephew developed tinnitus from the powerful medications he was taking for bone cancer. The medications helped eliminate the cancer & cure him, but part of the price he paid for his cure was long-term, likely permanent ringing ears.
Let me give you this list of the types of medications that have been known to cause ringing ears. According to the Mayo Clinic, here are the types of medicines known to sometimes cause tinnitus or worsen existing cases of ringing ears:
- Antibiotics: Several antibiotics can cause problems, including chloramphenicol, erythromycin, tetracycline, vancomycin and bleomycin
- Cancer medications: Some of these powerful drugs that can cause tinnitus include mechlorethamine and vincristine
- Diuretics: Bumetanide, ethacrynic acid, and furosemide
- Quinine medications and others (such as chloroquine) used to treat malaria
- Aspirin: Very high doses of aspirin (12 or more per day)
If you have ringing in ears and are being treated with any one of these medications, you should talk to your doctors right away about a possible connection. It may be possible to change the way they are treating you and provide you with tinnitus relief at the same time.
What could be a more natural cure for tinnitus than stopping using a drug that cause your tinnitus as a side effect?
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