Tinnitus Relief and Medicine - Medicines That Can Cause Ringing Ears

If you’ve done much research on your tinnitus, 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 medications that you are taking. That’s right. It is actually possible that one of the medicines your doctor prescribes for you could be the cause (or at least one of the causes of) your tinnitus.

This possible link between prescription medications (the drugs that are supposed to help us be healthy) and ringing ears was certainly a surprise to me. I learned of it when my nephew developed ringing ears 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 hearing damage.

To help you figure out if your medications might be causing your tinnitus, let me give you a list of the types of medications that can cause tinnitus. Based on information from the Mayo Clinic, here are the types of medications that have been known to sometimes cause tinnitus or worsen existing cases of tinnitus:

• Antibiotics: Several antibiotics can cause problems, including chloramphenicol, erythromycin, tetracycline, vancomycin and bleomycin
• Cancer medications: Some of these powerful medications 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 taking any one of these medications, you should talk to your doctors right away about a possible connection. They may be able to change the particular medicines you are taking or choose an alternate treatment plan and provide you with tinnitus relief at the same time.

What could be a more natural cure for tinnitus than stopping taking one or more medications that cause your ringing ears as a side effect?

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