Keep away from antidepressants. If you are depressed get counseling, CBT etc and use natural remedies. I have used antidepressants for years... they are not worth the trouble!! And they can make your tinnitus worse.
Ketamine isn't a classic antidepressant. Never heard of it being directly injected in ears, though.
Is this the clinical trial at Columbia?
I would do it.
A relevant question: if the Ketamine does work, but only temporarily, will Columbia ENTs be able to proscribe you more? Will you get specialized longer-term treatment? That would be worth it right there.
"the preliminary results with this medication show that it only works for tinnitus that results from acute injury. It does not treat tinnitus resulting from progressive hearing loss."
this is basically a shameless effort to make something patentable by making a "new" molecule , (a mirror isomer in this case I think?) but the big difference is that AM101 is intended to be injected into the ear during the acute phase to deal with ear inflammation; ketamine infusion protocols are trying to rewrite 5ht and other pathways at a brain level... how well either of these things work is a big question mark
The hertz measurement is lowered. I'll try to do an actual measurement of it later. I am going in for my fifth round today.
I was offered Ketamine injections. The cost was high and insurance didn't cover them. I didn't know they used them for pain also. I'm thinking they knock out your tinnitus for a short while like Lidocaine. I doubt you have any long term relief.
For the record, I have tried lidocaine injections behind the ear with no effect on the tinnitus. I think it's just intravenous lidocaine that suppresses the tinnitus, not localized injection unfortunately.
Just wondering if you went ahead with the Ketamine trial and, if so, how it went?
Member
