Tinnitus and blood testing

[James White]

Hi everyone,

I'm considering having a good global blood test but i'd like to ask for specific tests for tinnitus. I've read b12 and d vitamins deficiencies could worsen tinnitus and i think you can have that checked, so what should i ask for and what is possible ?

• Vitamin B12
• Vitamin D
• Zinc ?
• Tryglicerid : i guess this is the most standard
• Cholesterol

What else ?

 

[erik]

maybe also thyroid, liver function and testosterone.

 

[Golly]

Hi everyone,

I'm considering having a good global blood test but i'd like to ask for specific tests for tinnitus. I've read b12 and d vitamins deficiencies could worsen tinnitus and i think you can have that checked, so what should i ask for and what is possible ?

• Vitamin B12
• Vitamin D
• Zinc ?
• Tryglicerid : i guess this is the most standard
• Cholesterol

What else ?

Perhaps test Magnesium levels, too. -G

 

[James White]

Perhaps test Magnesium levels, too. -G

I thought you couldn't measure magnesium ?

 

[aura]

Complete blood count, ESR, blood sugar level, liver function tests (ALT, AST), urea, creatine, sodium, potassium, magnesium, total calcium, total proteins, 25-OH-D3 vitamin, total cholesterol, triglycerides, thyroid function tests (TSH, free T4).

 

[inadmin]

My Doctor said Magnezium levels cannot be determined through a blood test, but he told me there's no problem in taking it for 3 months. I read somewhere that iron also needs to get checked.

 

[Markku]

Yeah, magnesium measurement doesn't seem to be very reliable.

Measuring total serum magnesium is a feasible and affordable way to monitor changes in magnesium status, although it does not necessarily reflect total body magnesium content.

The most common test for the evaluation of magnesium levels and magnesium status in patients is serum magnesium concentration [21, 56], which is valuable in clinical medicine, especially for rapid assessment of acute changes in magnesium status [17]. However, serum magnesium concentration does not correlate with tissue pools, with the exception of interstitial fluid and bone. It also does not reflect total body magnesium levels [17, 57]. Only 1% of total body magnesium is present in extracellular fluids, and only 0.3% of total body magnesium is found in serum, and so serum magnesium concentrations [22] are poor predictors of intracellular/total body magnesium content [7]. This situation is comparable to assessing total body calcium by measuring serum calcium, which, too, does not adequately represent total body content. As with many reference values, laboratory parameters will also vary from laboratory to laboratory resulting in slightly varying ranges for the 'healthy' populations evaluated. What is considered the 'normal level' might actually be slightly too low, representing a mild magnesium deficit present in the normal population [17].

There are also the 24-hour urine excretion test, and the retention test.
The full article from the below link:
http://ckj.oxfordjournals.org/content/5/Suppl_1/i3.full

 

[aura]

Measure serum calcium, 24 hour urine
calcium output , 25 oh d vitamin, PTH and it s more than enough!