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  1. click

    Potassium Nitrate - Ouch!

    ...Been sucking menthyl & eating spicy foods because I'm suspecting congested eustachian tubes as reason for T. Had something with potassium nitrate in it earlier today and POW - the T went through the roof. Edit - it was sodium nitrate - have just checked - sorry!! It's quietened down again...
  2. Sherri786

    Spike Caused by Potassium Nitrate in the Toothpaste!

    ...so I had been using Sensodyne since yesterday, while googling online I came across posts on some other T forums and seems like others T had been caused or spiked due to the Potassium Nitrate in their toothpaste too, even caused deafness to some. Check your toothpastes for Potassium nitrates !
  3. dolphinskin

    Losing my mind seeing that the potassium nitrate in my toothpaste might be causing these...

    Losing my mind seeing that the potassium nitrate in my toothpaste might be causing these horrible painful tinnitus spikes. Threw it away.
  4. Lane

    How Can I Counteract the Possible Effects Sensodyne Toothpaste Has Caused for My Tinnitus?

    ...-- @shasta0863 - So sorry to hear about this development. I sincerely hope this can get better for you soon! Spike Caused by Potassium Nitrate in the Toothpaste! ...seems like others T had been caused or spiked due to the Potassium Nitrate in their toothpaste too, even caused deafness to...
  5. B

    Somatic Pulsatile Tinnitus + Normal Tinnitus: Sensodyne Toothpaste Reduces Both

    I was just reading another forum where people claimed potassium nitrate made tinnitus worse. There's also this old thread. https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/potassium-nitrate-ouch.717/
  6. B

    How Can I Counteract the Possible Effects Sensodyne Toothpaste Has Caused for My Tinnitus?

    Hi, sorry to hear about your troubles. There is one Sensodyne product which works for me very well, with zero side effects. The rapid repair formula has no potassium nitrate. I have used this daily for years with no problems and no tinnitus spikes. Good luck.
  7. Greg Sacramento

    How Can I Counteract the Possible Effects Sensodyne Toothpaste Has Caused for My Tinnitus?

    They dropped Potassium Nitrate in "repair enamel". Has stannous fluoride
  8. DebInAustralia

    How Can I Counteract the Possible Effects Sensodyne Toothpaste Has Caused for My Tinnitus?

    What about depleted nitric oxide levels then? Can that contribute to tinnitus? I suspect it's Babesia causing this...
  9. Darek

    Spike Caused by Potassium Nitrate in the Toothpaste!

    ...i'm sorry but are you really serious? you give as link from 2004 one case ? Please next time try check information which you posts. Potassium Nitrate is added to meat chesse even vegetables (soil) contains him even water. Look at E252 (potassium Nitrate) So people try think. If he really be...
  10. billie48

    Tinnitus Due to Using Toothpaste

    Welcome to the forum. Sorry to hear your suffering with the new tinnitus triggered by alergy to a toothpaste. Potassium nitrate has been talked about as a substance that can trigger tinnitus. If you don't find enough response in the Introduction, you can try search our forum or google search it...
  11. Sound Wave

    Tinnitus, TMJ, Headaches, Neck Pain, Facial Pain, etc. — Possible Treatment

    That toothpaste and potassium nitrate scare is not true at all. Just ignore stuff like this.
  12. S

    Spike Caused by Potassium Nitrate in the Toothpaste!

    The first time I ever experienced tinnitus in my life was after taking potassium nitrate as a supplement for several weeks to increase nitric oxide levels. For the past several years, it has become very obvious that increasing potassium nitrate increases tinnitus and decreasing potassium...
  13. Lisa88

    Spike Caused by Potassium Nitrate in the Toothpaste!

    Week I got my t, had happened to switch to a toothpaste containing Potassium Nitrate. Came off it a week later. Interesting.
  14. Karen

    Potassium Nitrate - Ouch!

    Hi, Click, I've heard or read that, too, about potassium nitrate. Here is a link that discusses it: http://deafness.about.com/b/2004/09/02/brush-teeth-lose-hearing.htm It seems that Sensodyne toothpaste, the kind that deadens sensitivity, contains potassium nitrate, and using it can cause...
  15. James

    Tinnitus in both ears

    The toothpaste issue. Now I'm searching the web for Non- Potassium Nitrate toothpaste? I didn't realize such things can effect Tinnitus. Merry Christmas.
  16. A

    Taurine and Tinnitus

    ...is found in white beans in high levels. Maybe that would be the safest thing, but I don't know. Also a word of caution do not take Potassium Nitrate under any circumstances. It is the nitrate that is the problem and some have reported tinnitus or hearing loss from it. It is an ingredient in...
  17. Sherri786

    Tinnitus in both ears

    @Ben Jubel , hey sorry about the t in your left ear. If you're using any toothpaste with Potassium Nitrate, it does aggravate T. sensodyne spikes mine.
  18. S

    How Can I Counteract the Possible Effects Sensodyne Toothpaste Has Caused for My Tinnitus?

    In addition, there are a lot of published scientific articles linking increased levels of nitric oxide with tinnitus! Potassium nitrate is even sold as a supplement by Berkeley Life to increase nitric oxide.
  19. Dani

    Spike Caused by Potassium Nitrate in the Toothpaste!

    Many types of toothpaste, especially those for sensitive teeth, contain as an active ingredient a compound known as Potassium Nitrate (also known as saltpetre). Potassium Nitrate is a known irritant of tinnitus. It can be the source of your tinnitus or be worsening your existing tinnitus. Some...
  20. Bill Bauer

    How Can I Counteract the Possible Effects Sensodyne Toothpaste Has Caused for My Tinnitus?

    Some types of Sensodyne toothpaste (e.g., the one I have now, that has "repair enamel" prominent on its label) don't have Potassium Nitrate listed...
  21. Ben Jubel

    Tinnitus in both ears

    Yes it might just be the toothpaste. Will the effect go away soon? eses
  22. Greg Sacramento

    How Can I Counteract the Possible Effects Sensodyne Toothpaste Has Caused for My Tinnitus?

    ...fats, drink a good brand of spring or filtered water, As you know sensodyne toothpaste contains stannous fluoride besides potassium nitrate. Exercise more. Foods or green vegies with potassium isn't much, if all of a concern. Potassium lowers body salt content. If you have high cholesterol...
  23. Sherri786

    Tinnitus in both ears

    Hi James Merry Christmas, the one that's available at our organic store is a " green beaver" brand, it has no sodium laurel sulfate, no triclosan, no flouride etc.
  24. click

    Potassium Nitrate - Ouch!

    Hiya Fish, That reply sounds similar to the one when I suggested that silence can cause T :D Potassium nitrate is actually used in loads of toothpastes. Karen wrote about toothpaste in a thread on here.. and she gave a link to the following page...
  25. click

    Potassium Nitrate - Ouch!

    Whoops - it was sodium nitrate ... not potassium - see what having a buzzing heads does! Yes - I knew about sensodyne being iffy. It really is a nightmare to sort out isn't it Karen. I'd really like to stop thinking about T all the time - especially as it disappears or goes so quiet for...
  26. S

    How Can I Counteract the Possible Effects Sensodyne Toothpaste Has Caused for My Tinnitus?

    With regard to potassium nitrate (and/or sodium nitrite) increasing tinnitus, this is certainly possible. The body has two pathways to synthesize nitric oxide. The primary pathway is through nitric oxide synthase (NOS) which relies upon arginine and citrulline. The secondary pathway relies...
  27. click

    Already 6 Hours Tinnitus Free with CBD Oil

    Yep. Do a search in here for sensodyn & you'll find references in threads all over the place - it contains potassium nitrate and it's probably wise to look up all the other stuff that contains this too. Ibuprofen is a good one as GPs everywhere are prescribing it to people with T & yet, again...
  28. Golly

    Taurine and Tinnitus

    Here is an extensive TT thread regarding a possible link between toothpaste for sensitive teeth and tinnitus: https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/potassium-nitrate-ouch.717/ It occurs to me only now that my tinnitus started around the time I began using Sensodyne three or more years ago. Who...
  29. Greg Sacramento

    Floaters

    ...Cause with tinnitus could be hypertension with also twisting head and neck, cardiac rhythm changes, white matter increase, sodium / potassium nitrate or too much vitamin A. Most drugs used are either associated to retina detachment or hypertension. All drugs need to be given as an inpatient...
  30. M

    Arginine Toothpaste Safe?

    ...the most important ingredient and I wonder if there is a danger to irritate tinnitus with this. I have banned my toothpaste with potassium nitrate so I am in desperate need for sth. for my sensitive teeth. The ingredients of the toothpaste are the following: Calcium Carbonate, Aqua...
  31. S

    Tinnitus Due to Using Toothpaste

    ...tinnitus just about 6 weeks ago from an allergic reaction to Fluoridex Sensitivity Relief Toothpaste most likely to its ingredient potassium nitrate. Doctors don't believe me that a toothpaste can cause this, but as soon as I was done with only one application the static noise started and...
  32. Jay M

    Tinnitus, TMJ, Headaches, Neck Pain, Facial Pain, etc. — Possible Treatment

    Leaving no stone unturned. The mouth is the first part of the digestive tract and teeth and gums have plenty of nerves. Theres countless posts and threads that talk about dental work and T. Toothpaste is chemicals. My point is if someone changed something recently in the past 6 months or so...
  33. Greg Sacramento

    Floaters

    ...depression drug. One researcher said that many with tinnitus, hyperacusis and/or floaters, black dots and such have either calcium, potassium nitrate, sodium potassium nitrate or B12 being stored and not released. With neuro diseases, it's never a lack of, including D3. There's studies online...
  34. shasta0863

    How Can I Counteract the Possible Effects Sensodyne Toothpaste Has Caused for My Tinnitus?

    Thanks. I recall my cholesterol being within good range from a few months back, but will double check. What I don't seem to understand, is that is it possible through the mouth that it got absorbed into the bloodstream and made it's way to the inner ear to cause havoc? That seems absurd to me...
  35. 65vwbus

    Potassium Nitrate - Ouch!

    I know this is an old post, but i've been thinking a bit today. I've been taking Retigabine for neuropathic pain in my face and head, and tinnitus which started at the same time, so must be related. It's working great for my pain levels, and helping a bit with the tinnitus too, although i'm not...
  36. JohnAdams

    Tinnitus Due to Using Toothpaste

    did you spit it out?
  37. cspc

    Potassium Nitrate - Ouch!

    I had a toothpaste with potassium nitrate and a mouthwash with chlorexidine from 2013 - 2016 and a toothpaste with stannous fluoride, propylene glycol and a mouthwash with propylene glycol from 2016 - 2018. Also stannous fluoride stains teeth (it stained mine in the first 2 months of use). It...
  38. click

    Is Your Tinnitus Quieter First Thing in the Morning?

    ...affected by things I eat and drink. Most coffee makes it go mad, tea makes it absolutely crazy & citrus drinks make it screech (even fresh orange juice). I've also tested sodium nitrate and potassium nitrate and both make my T loud the next day. It's incredible how many foods these are in.
  39. Golly

    Taurine and Tinnitus

    ...giving you the relief. Of the bunch, I am most intrigued by NAC. I should mention that I did switch to an all natural toothpaste (with Fluoride but without Potassium Nitrate) since my post of May 9 (above). I have experienced no noticeable difference in tinnitus (which is what I expected)...
  40. anotherforumuser

    MRI Machines Really Need to Be Reworked — I Developed Tinnitus Immediately After the Scan

    ...of interest, but yes, posture issues alone can provoke silent hypertension anyway... - In other threads you did mention "calcium, potassium nitrate, sodium potassium nitrate or B12 being stored and not released" as a possibility for floaters, and even somewhere else proteins/vitamin A were...
  41. RichL

    Potassium Nitrate - Ouch!

    Interesting, Wouldn't surprise me if you are correct in your thinking. Would be interesting to research the science and find out! Sometimes I think we at TT should apply for some government grants and do our own research, there's a few here who have discovered sh#t by experimenting a little!
  42. GregCA

    Tinnitus Due to Using Toothpaste

    I doubt it. They are probably right. I suggest you go see a doctor (an ear specialist, not a GP) and start root causing your noise. Starting with a hearing test is not uncommon. You can use this flowchart to help guide the diagnosis (you may want to bring it to your doctors)...
  43. J-rod

    Spike Caused by Potassium Nitrate in the Toothpaste!

    ...when there are so many other ingredients. There was a time about a year before my change in toothpastes when I was using one with Potassium Nitrate and I don't recall my T being any worse. Looking back on the non-fluorides, I think it was Spry with the Xylitol, it seems to have fixed the...
  44. TheDanishGirl

    Floaters

    Wow, they seem much more knowledgeable on this in your country, then in mine. I don't think they do these tests in my country. I couldn't do an MRI though... too loud and too much of a risk to mainly to my hyperacusis. Is hypertension the same as high blood pressure? Sorry, I'm ignorant on...
  45. Jay M

    Tinnitus, TMJ, Headaches, Neck Pain, Facial Pain, etc. — Possible Treatment

    ...and put into our bodies. I came across another thread talking about toothpaste for sensitive teeth containing an ingredient called Potassium Nitrate (PN). Some claimed it's side effects include causing or aggravating someones T. Really!? I was hoping mine (Crest Pro-Health) contained PN but...
  46. Mr. Cartman

    Tinnitus, TMJ, Headaches, Neck Pain, Facial Pain, etc. — Possible Treatment

    Thats interesting! Im using Solidox, not sure if its an international brand, but Ill check the ingredients list.
  47. stophiss

    Deactivating Automotive Airbags

    ...that is formed is a potential hazard alone and, in automobile airbags, it is converted by reaction with other ingredients, such as potassium nitrate and silica. In the latter case, innocuous sodium silicates are generated.[9] Sodium azide is also used in airplane escape chutes. Newer...
  48. click

    Is Your Tinnitus Quieter First Thing in the Morning?

    ...with food do give me more reason to believe this. It's so hard to pin point the triggers though. Tea, certain types of coffee, potassium nitrate, sodium nitrate, msg, citrates, oranges - all of these make it louder to different degrees. And when my T is very, very low... even a tiny quantity...
  49. thesaint

    Five Possibilities to Relieve Your Tinnitus

    ...of Toothpastes Many types of toothpaste, especially those for sensitive teeth, contain as an active ingredient a compound known as Potassium Nitrate (also known as saltpetre). Potassium Nitrate is a known irritant of tinnitus. It can be the source of your tinnitus or be worsening your...
  50. shasta0863

    How Can I Counteract the Possible Effects Sensodyne Toothpaste Has Caused for My Tinnitus?

    ...recommended stuff for noise trauma's still apply here. I don't even know how the toothpaste could affect the tinnitus, even if Potassium nitrate or what ever other ingredient in there was ototoxic. How is it reaching the inner ear. I'm really at a loss. I'm already struggling with this new...
  51. ThomasW

    Antidepressants (SSRIs, SNRIs, MAOs, TCAs, TeCAs)

    I got tinnitus from taking Amitriptyline which is a Tricyclic, I was taking a low does for pain for 2 weeks when my left ear started ringing. I stopped and it mostly went away a few days after. Came back when I tested it once again. Then set in constantly once I took a low dose of Valium and...