Nose Spray Solved My Tinnitus!

I had a really bad cold and blocked ears in September last year, antibiotics helped the blocked ears to finally clear but as my hearing returned to normal I could hear a high pitched ringing sound. Having been worried there was nothing that could be done about it, I went to an ENT doctor and he used a camera to identify swelling inside my nose. He prescribed a couple of sprays and the swelling went down and now 2 months later the sound is virtually unnoticeable

Jamie

 

Happy you are free now

 

Great news!

Just remember... take care of your ears more than ever!

 

What were the sprays @Jamie G?

 

I used one called Otrivine Adult Nasal Spray for a week and another called Avamys Nasal Spray suspension for 6 weeks.

 

Update: turns out it didn't entirely solve the problem. Seems that my tubes became swollen again after I stopped using the spray. I find a combination of decongestants and restarting the nose spray really helps but the tinnitus ends up returning again quite quickly soon after I stop. After a few days of nose spray/decongesting I can feel my ears popping often and there is a noticeable decrease in ringing but it is only a temporary fix. Does anybody have any ideas on a better, more long-term solution?

Thank you,

Jamie

 

Dear All,

I'm late to the party (it's Feb. 2020) but I've been taking an allergy nose spray with great results. Started Friday and my ringing in gone now and it's Monday. Cause of my tinnitus: ENT area inflammation.

I was thinking for long term maintenance, I can use a saline nose spray twice a day as the air in my place is so dry my nose was bleeding every time I blew it. Saline would be good as it's cheap and essentially natural.

Has anyone tried this/saline yet? What were the results?

Best,
Dee w.

 

I had the same problem with my ears about a year before I got tinnitus. Long cold resulted in totally blocked ears, couldn't hear a thing, almost had to cancel a trip because of it! No tinnitus that time though what I remember. But nose spray definitely solved it all, it just took couple of weeks. Thinking the nose spray was some kind of Cortison?

 

Any positive updates from this group?

 

I just read this thread. After reading it, I decided to try a valsalva maneuver on my nose to see what happened. As I valsalva'd, my tinnitus went away as the pressure increased. I also began to become dizzy very quickly as I maintained the valsalva pressure. As soon as I released the pressure, the dizziness went away immediately and the tinnitus returned more slowly (about 10 seconds).

It's interesting to me that a valsalva-like pressure could make the tinnitus go away for a few seconds. What is being pressed on inside my head when I valsalva that causes the tinnitus to momentarily stop?

 

I'm quite curious about this as well, as valsalva set off my tinnitus 2.5 years ago and it never left.

 

Not sure but I just tried this about 20 minutes ago for a second and it created a horrible, strange headache in the back top part of my head. I won't be doing that again, thought I was going to have to go to the hospital for a few minutes there but it subsided 80% over the past 20 minutes. Just a really weird and localized pain. I also noticed that my left ear didn't fill up like it normally would before tinnitus when doing this (my right ear is my "bad ear", the one with aching from sound/ear cleaning and the one the tinnitus started in before going to both ears a week later). I'm assuming whatever damage is in my right ear involves nerves and the pressure just irritated them and referred to back of the head.