Drugs That Make Your Tinnitus Worse

[dpdx]

Attached is a list of drugs that makes your tinnitus worse or drugs that can cause tinnitus.

Stay away from gentamicin, it is a powerful antibiotic that causes tinnitus and can damage your vestibular system.

 

[GregCA]

@dpdx - What is the source for this data?

 

[dpdx]

@dpdx - What is the source for this data?

I got this from one doctor I went to see.

 

[Markku]

@dpdx - What is the source for this data?

I googled (in quotation marks for exact search term) the following:

"Some of the drugs that cause or exacerbate tinnitus"​

The only result appearing was this (which seems to match the list):

http://cursoenarm.net/UPTODATE/contents/mobipreview.htm?30/56/31623

And the UpToDate appears to be relating to this:

https://www.uptodate.com/home

 

[PaulBe]

Genta is one of the aminoglycoside class. Erythromycin is another implicated in tinnitus. The recommendations for these drugs are that they are to be given as a slow IV infusion only to avoid the rapid serum concentrations that occur with a quick push which is where you get your damage in most cases. Genta doesn't have an oral form.

 

[Autumnly]

Still can't believe my doctors let me take ototoxic painkillers and antidepressants for about two years and did not mention once that, maybe, as someone suffering from tinnitus I shouldn't take them.