Aleve (Naproxen) Has Worsened My Tinnitus. Prednisone for Ototoxicity?

I took aleve 2 nights ago and now my tinnitus is louder. It became louder about 3-4 hours after taking it and hasn't let up since. It's also even higher-pitched and my ear hurt intermittently all day yesterday. I just keep doing the wrong things... I'm trying to not be emotional here but feel like a beat down dog. My ear just keeps getting worse.

My good ear is still (knock on wood) tinnitus free but the bad one increased. My guess is that there were some cochlear hair cells just hanging on barely functioning and along came the aleve and put those sad sacks down. That's my guess as to why it's only affected my one ear.

Does anyone know if prednisone is used for ototoxicity? I can't find anything that says it is, but wanted to throw the question out there.

The other thing, obviously I'm hoping this is temporary but I know there's a chance it will be a permanent increase... anyone had aleve, advil, any NSAID, cause a temporary increase? Tonight will be 2 nights since I took the crap and it hasn't gone down since.

 

Has this even happened to anyone here from any kind of NSAID?

 

Hello Zinnia,

Did your spike from Naproxen go away? The exact same thing happened to me. took a 500mg of Naproxen on Sunday and within 3 hrs had a spike of a high pitch fluctuating T.

It’s now been 5 days and I’m still suffering from the spike. Has yours went down?

 

@Zinnia did your t ever returned back to baseline?

 

Yeah, me. I was on NSAIDs playing electric guitar and that's when I got my hearing damage.