Terrible Spike Today, One Day After Surgery & Painkillers

Today is my one year anniversary of the onset on tinnitus. It is the loudest it has ever been today. Sounds like a super high pitch whistle going off in my left ear. Hopefully it dies down, i have good days and bad ones this is the worst one yet. Thinking it might be due to the pain killers i took after a surgery i had yesterday.

 

What pain killers exactly @Mont ?

 

Oxycodone.

 

Good to know. Perhaps someone knowledgable on this forum can shed some insight on the matter regarding oxycodone and its possible side effects including tinnitus and ototoxicity.

 

Just checked it for you,according to the FDA out of 23,000+ individuals only 3 experienced what could be classed as ototoxicity from prolonged use.

If you type any med followed by ototoxic into Google 99% of the time results will show up saying its Ototoxic or show this persons story or that persons story who may or may not have lost hearing from this or that med,most of it is nonsense in my opinion.

There are meds known to be heavily Ototoxic like certain anti-biotics etc and obviously these should be avoided but at the end of the day everyone here is different,I could take six metric tonne of Aspirin and have zero happen to my ears where as the next person could only take a spoon full and go deaf.

Take the pain killer in moderation,listen to your T after taking it and if there's any significant changes stop it immediately.

 

What caused your T initially?

 

Not sure, think it may have been an antibiotic i was on. Also i have lots of stress.

 

Was it for an ear infection?

 

Yes, i had ear infection in left ear, that is ear my t is louder in most days. I have it both sometimes my right is louder.

 

Oxycodone specifically generally causes me a significant spike for 1-7 days. I'd recommend the fully organic opioids instead based on personal experience (morphine/codeine).

 

I took one oxycodone and on my god It was so loud it hurt. It is still fairly loud today, just taking advil now. Going to another ent friday. Probably just a waste of more money but i will try anything

 

Hi Mont,

Hopefully your spike will lessen in intensity.

Not to sound discouraging, but for the most part, unless you have wax in your ear or other physical signs that an ENT is (or should be) trained to pick up on, he or she will not be of much assistance to you, outside of writing scripts to try medication Y instead of X and vice versa.

By all means, make sure the ENT gives you a hearing test. Good luck!

 

Hi Mont,
Have you noticed an improvement over the past month?

 

I was under the impression advil was more ototoxic than oxycodone. But it does depend on the person