L-Citrulline Caused Tinnitus?

Took two grams of l citrulline today and experienced immediate ringing in my ears.

It has been 4 hours and am still experiencing the ringing. I am very worried that I may have gotten tinnitus from this. I never read any side effects of this supplement causing tinnitus.

Do you think I have done damage that is permanent or could this be a side effect due to the blood flow from the nitric oxide. Please help.

 

Welcome to the forum. It is not easy for us to say if damage has been done or that your T will stay. Perhaps get an ENT or doctor to assess the ears. But if your T is bothering you, try masking it so you won't panic and get too stressful which can aggravate T. Your T is very new so it may just fade. If you need some suggestions on masking, here are some options:

1) Mask at bed time so you can sleep better. Find whatever sounds/music that are soothing to you. You can use a sound machine or sound pillow for this, or a computer with speakers.

2) If you need masking on the go, try load an ipod with nature sounds or music using itune. If you have a smart phone, you can download free APPs for soothing or T-masking sounds.

3) If you have computer and speakers, you can try these excellent masking sounds too:

TT's audio player: https://www.tinnitustalk.com/audioplayer/

or this online sound library, particularly the self-mix nature sounds: https://mynoise.net

or download free sound generator ‘aire freshener’: http://www.peterhirschberg.com/mysoftware.html

or search youtube with words like 'tinnitus masking sounds', 'white noise', 'rain sound' etc.

 

I read somewhere that L citrulline is converted to L arginine, which can aggravate hsv. Thats the only connection i can think of. Antivirals if you suspect this may be the case?

 

Took omega 3 and it seriously aggrevated the ringing even more. Can someone explain to me what is going on?? Why did the ringing start immedatly after taking l citrulline to increase blood flow? Please help