Poll: Did Amitriptyline Help Your Tinnitus?

Is it true that Amitriptyline can help tinnitus?

 

This is an interesting poll.

 

Amitriptyline prescribed for better sleep TRIGGERED tinnitus in me for the very first time, and continues to this day.

 

I have had tinnitus since I don't remember when.

I can keep it under control with Elavil (Amitriptyline). When my tinnitus goes away, I can stop the Elavil, but when it comes back (and it comes back) I have to start the Elavil again. I use the generic and I start with 10 mg going up to 30 mg.

Take it at night as it makes you sleepy - it also helps you sleep through the tinnitus.

It works for me.

 

I've been testing Amitriptyline. It is hard to tell if the sheer exhaustion lessens the tinnitus or the drug itself. It seems to have some kind of effect. I will post when I test more.

 

What's the dosing like for Amitriptyline? Perhaps it's best to start very very low and very gradually work your way up to the required dosage. That way you can monitor your tinnitus as you slowly increase.

With Nortriptyline, I feel it would have made mine much worse if I would have started immediately at the required dose. Going up slowly allowed me to gauge that it seems to exacerbate things, so I've been able to save myself a lot of grief.

 

Amitriptyline caused my brutal tinnitus

 

I'm interested in what your tinnitus sounds like.

 

Amitriptyline caused my tinnitus. Three damn pills. Damn poison drug.

 

3 sounds. In my left ear it is beeping sound, in my right ear it's a constant tone and absolutely the worst is the hight pitch metallic or electric like static hissing which is unmaskable. I can mask the first two sounds but the hissing is a lost battle. I'm very very suicidal and barely functioning.

 

I took about 20 mg of Amitriptyline last night, highest I've had yet. I typically notice a difference in the morning.

This morning, I'm definitely a little worse off, I wasn't as exhausted when it worked so might've been bad absorption.

 

I'm beginning to consider Amitriptyline as unhelpful. My tinnitus and distortions were likely low just due to good sleeping. I'll trial only once more with it. I took quite a bit last night and things aren't better, perhaps even a bit worse today.

 

The noise is in your brain, not your ears. Your ears hear the noises generated in the brain.

 

Read this:

Increased serotonin levels spiked by anti-depressants, may exacerbate tinnitus

 

I think the dosing matters. Amitriptyline is one of the few SSRIs that has some NDMA antagonist activity so I wouldn't put it past working especially if you have tinnitus but had depression first.

 

I wonder then, what happens with people who have developed tinnitus from Wellbutrin since it acts on dopamine and norepinephrine rather than serotonin.

 

I was definitely one of the unlucky ones when it comes to Amitriptyline. Heart palpitations, tremors, cell phone vibrating in chest, increased BP, and heart rate. Oh yea dull pain in chest. Ended up in ER to make sure I didn't have a heart attack.

I was only on it 8 days. It did help with energy, tinnitus, anxiety and nerve pain.

I was on it 8 days and am still experiencing side effects 1.5 weeks later. It's probably because I was on SSRIs before.

I would still recommend it. I was just part of the unlucky bucket.

 

I have an unusual form of tinnitus. It is in my right ear only. It sounds like water dropping on my eardrum - click, click, click all day and night.

It is called tensor tympani myoclonus.

It responds to Amitriptyline.

 

I was on a low dose of Amitriptyline, starting at 5 mg, for chronic anxiety. I was scared to take it in case my tinnitus increased but the anxiety was crippling the life out of me. I tapered up to 12.5 mg over 3 months and then developed a morse code in my left ear (the culprit may also have been headphones). My anxiety got worse, coupled with suicidal ideation and lack of sleep, my doctor put me up to 25 mg. I took it for four days (without thinking about the potential effect on tinnitus). My tinnitus became louder and more electric hissy buzzy sounding. It was the worst mistake to even start taking it, I wish I had left it well alone. Also, it did not help my sleep, just gave me dry mouth, palpitations, etc.

 

Those who responded positively to Amitriptyline, how long (hours, minutes) after ingesting would you say you found relief?

 

Has anyone with hyperacusis tried Amitriptyline? My doctor just recommended it.

 

If he recommended it, then take it. We are not doctors. It's sometimes used for hyperacusis, as is Nortriptyline.