Tinnitus is one of those ailments which can claim to have a huge array of causes, singular and multifactorial ones. Needless to say that many medical disciplines are on the search for the ultimate cure, with possibly few or no side effects for the patient. Western school medicine herein relies heavily on research results coming from the pharmaceutical industry and eventually their new tinnitus medication.
Yet little is known about tinnitus inducing treatments and medications. For example, aspirin has been promoted as a pain”killer” with additional other properties, like blood thinner characteristics (for those with high risk of heart attack), as fever medication, and as antiinflammatory agent. Aspirin is being considered as a safe drug with a fairly long history in the market. So almost nobody is aware or even knows that this drug can be the cause of tinnitus. Nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs, like ibuprofen or naproxen, count also among those drugs which can induce tinnitus.
There is also a prominent list of antibiotics, which could induce tinnitus: Vibramycin (doxycycline), vancomycin, tetracycline, chloramphenicol, and aminoglycosides count into this list. Chemotherapy and antiviral drugs, like interferon, cisplatin, methotrexate, and vincristine, also have tinnitus inducing potential.
Another class of drugs are loop diuretics. The most common drug here is furosemide or Lasix, a fast acting diuretic, which is mainly used to treat edema and hypertension. Chloroquine and quinine as malaria medications, as well as a couple of antidepressants and vaccines, these are all drug medications which have some tinnitus inducing potentials.
Little is known about how these medicines are able to induce tinnitus. But there is always a certain possibility that a patient, who looks for relief from a totally different disease, ends up having an additional health problem or his/her former problem being replaced with the tinnitus problem. The list of drugs, known to induce tinnitus, contains more than 200 different substances from different classes.
A good part of western school medicine practice limits itself to coping of symptoms rather than treating the underlying causes. The treatment of tinnitus is no exemption. Since its treatment is time and effort consuming and not to be handled and settled in just one round of consultation, the ordinary practitioner will rather go the “way of least resistance“ and treat the most prominent symptoms of the problem by prescribing e.g. antidepressants, since most tinnitus patients experience elevated stress levels due to the never ending noise in their head and ears. Antidepressants don’t do anything about tinnitus and its causes, but they help the patient to get along with their problem and manage their condition, and possibly cause more tinnitus, since antidepressants, as described and listed earlier in this article, have some potential to induce and aggravate tinnitus.
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