Tinnitus Spike Because of Mirtazapine?!

I've been going through a really tough time with low frequency drone spike.
I've had spikes before but never for this long, over 2 weeks of worse and nearly a week of suicidal level.

I'm not eating, drinking, sleeping... I'm a complete I functional mess.

I’ve been on Mirtazapine 30mg since beginning of September so I’m just wondering if this is because of meds?

Thanks guys!

 

Mirtazapine does not cause ringing in the ears as a side effect, so my doctor told me.

 

If you wobble your head does the drone sound cut out momentarily with the wobbling?

 

Yes it does! But only for the duration of wobble.
Why? Do you have the same?

 

I’m confused Allan, my doctor said if it was to cause worsening it would have happened when I started meds, and that sounds logical to me but I can’t explain this spike from hell

 

Nobody can explain tinnitus, period.

I started a medication and had a noise exposure at the time my tinnitus spiked into what is now 3 months long and probably how it will be now.

Could it have been the medication? Could it have been my fucking piano?

Who knows?

 

Must be somatic?

 

Yes, it does exactly that for the duration of a wobble. I believe the drone sound is either the stapedius or tensor tympani muscles going a bit nuts like vibrating. I get it quite often but it comes and goes. If it were like normal T I do not think it would modulate with a wobble. It’s all part of TTTS in my opinion.

So, I believe it’s an actual mechanical /conductive thing causing the noise rather than sensorineural. For this reason I do not let it bother me much anymore, unlike the other T.

Also in the year plus that I’ve had it it is kind of waning somewhat, definitely goes away more often. I recall last Xmas walking through some rainforest with insects and river sounds yet I could clearly hear this massive drone like some turbo prop plane off in the distance or the sound of the bloody earth or something.

 

Yes, agree totally. I had a low drone at the very start of my tinnitus journey, it was on and off for a week. I could silence it by wearing ear muffs! So bizarre. I'd feel a fluttering deeper in my ear and it would start up. I knew at the time it had to be mechanical, and not a sound generated by my brain.
I wonder if it is these muscles if a prescription muscle relaxant might help? @valeri

 

Thanks Sam but I doubt that muscles could do this for 8 years!!!
What muscle relaxant could I try?

 

Clonazepam helped me for a short while and I think diazepam might. But obviously bad for long term. I saw @valeri had a post about the muscle relaxant cyclobenzaprine. Did anything come out of this? I thought about taking it once but I read some negative things in a middle ear myclonus thread (which is all very much related to this). I happened to have orphenadrine for something else but it didn’t help and I didn’t feel it was good to take.

Now I just ignore it as it drones away but it comes and goes so at least there’s some respite. It is very annoying but I prefer it over the ultra high frequency crap and at least I know it’s something mechanical not hearing loss per se. But if it’s unrelenting for Valeri at a high volume then I can understand how frustrating it would be.

 

Someone hiccuped non stop for years, so why not? It’s some kind of nerve/muscular dysfunction, well, as far as I know.

 

Magnesium ...

Baclofen?

Diazepam??

 

Fair point Val. It's interesting though that it seems mechanical in that you can stop it when you wobble your head.

I was going to suggest Flexeril, as GMan did above. It's worth a shot.

Do you use benzos?

 

Yes, the respite helps. It's unrelenting for Val though, I didn't like the drone, it was audible all the time for me, masked only when I was in the car by the sound of the engine.
At least I can mask my high pitch tinnitus.

 

No been using it for 3 year 7,5 mg for sleep if any it helped me.

 

What was the negative thing you read about cyclo in the middle ear myclonus thread?

I have some and was tempted to try it to stop a 2 week non-stop vibrating feeling and bass like echo sound pulse in my ear that I mentioned in the other thread that we spoke on.

 

Sorry can't recall exactly, but I just read a few things about it spiking people's tinnitus. I'd be interested to know if it did work.