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Regularly going to a good craniosacral therapist really worked for me.
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Yes, good (gentle but firm) cranial-sacral work can be very helpful.
Tinnitus can have many causes but magnesium is also a big help for many. In addition to addressing infection(s) and heavy metals -- adrenal support, liver support and brain support are all necessary for an overall approach.
(Smokers have a very hard time clearing tinnitus, so if cigarettes are in one's life, once tinnitus starts it has little chance of lessening until smoking ceases. Alcohol, too, makes tinnitus worse. I know both are off limits for lyme patients but not everyone is aware of that part of the treatment guidelines.)
More about tinnitus - causes and solutions - at these links:
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i had this problem too and it went away on its own.
the ringing stopped once i finished my antibiotics...not sure if there is any correlation here,
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Hi Eric, Dizzyup posted the English version of Rechts Regulat a few months ago. Can't find the link right now but I did copy it. It says: Rub the whole ear area with a cotton pad soaked in regulat 2 x day.
Twice daily, slowly and thoroughly wipe out the inside of the ear with a cotton swab soaked in regulat.
Haven't tried this personally but my husband plans to use it. He has really bad tinnitus. Will keep trying to find the link for you.
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Are you on Zithromax? I can only take Zithromax for 10 days before the ringing in the ears is intolerable.
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My mother had a ear ringing problem start about 3 months ago. She finally decided to see her primary doc and of course they sent her on to the specialists.
All this test going on and she just happened to have a dental appt scheduled to have a tooth removed that had given her problems for years. Bingo....
The ear ringing stopped the next day and hasn't returned. She was amazed that a tooth had anything to do with an ear problem.
My fear since they didn't give her any abx for possible bacterial infection around the bad tooth is the spread of unknown bacteria to somewhere else in the body.
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My ringing in the ears started after a botched spinal tap during which I was in bed for 10 days. It hasn't gone away since then even though I am on IV rochephin. Did anyone else have this? It is driving me crazy too.
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cuffee,
I hope you can see a LL neurotologist. You need an expert doctor to see if this can be lessened as soon as possible. An neurotologist should know exactly what happened during your spinal tap to cause this.
If you can possibly get cranial-sacral treatments (gentle, not snap and crack style) that may be of help, too.
Since it began at the time of the lumbar puncture, I'd investigate nerve connection first - unless you were given drugs at that time that are excitatory drugs to the central nervous system.
Such drugs can cause tinnitus in several ways (by liver stress) and just the excitatory nature. If you were given any drugs that used the Cytochrome P-450 liver detox pathway, those, too, can cause tinnitus.
Best of luck.
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Editing to add: you might also check out the lists of ototoxic drugs at the thread above. If they gave you drugs before, during or after the spinal tap, see if they are on one of those lists.
If they gave you any numbing agents, sometime epinephrine is in that. That can cause tinnitus as it's excitatory to the central nervous system, raising the NMDA receptors.
Magnesium will calm that down if this is part of what is going on.
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Actually, the ringing in the ear from Zith can cause permanent hearing loss.
I had it too with zith. Loud enough to wake me up.
Looked up ear ringing and zith. Holy Cow!!!
LLMD switched me immediately to biaxin upon report of ear ringing.
I have ear ringing....again.
It started again about 3 months ago out of no where.
I am doing malarone/biaxin.
Stopped biaxin. No change.
It is bothersome in quiet situations.
White noise is the best noise to cover it.
Such as a vacuum cleaner or turning an am/fm radio without hitting a station.
That kind of "Shhhhhhhhhhh" noise.
My personal joke is that I am going to get an unlisted ear.
So it stops ringing.
I take tons of magnesium.
However, have noticed a correlation between the ear ringing
And having lymph nodes swell again under my arms and neck.
Here I was thinking bartonella.......again.
I've been for complete hearing screening.
I mean complete. Nystagmus testing, etc.
I've had evoked potential hearing tests done.
Other than a congenital hearing loss in my Left ear
Which I've known since around 18, ears are normal.
I'm thinking it is pressure related in the inner ear.
Maybe due to inflammation of the brain around that area?
I wonder if and when I do doxy again (known for anti-inflammatory properties)
If that will help. Keep me posted.
Especially if you find something that works.
Hugs,
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Zithromax blatantly causes this, and its the drug, not a Lyme thing if you are on that. I used to put on my ipod all the time when i dripped my IV Zithromax.
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I had ringing before I started treatment.
Doc thinks it is the infection.
I'm thinking it also has to do with using a hair dryer for 30 years.
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Good point about hair dryers. Most are about 100 decibels (dB).
Anything over 85 dB for 90 seconds can cause auditory nerve damage. It may not show until years later, though.
Hairdryers should all be sold with earplugs and education about hearing protection. But since they are not, we have to spread the news about wearing earplugs when exposed to noise, especially when it's right at our ears.
Vacuums, too, are about 100 dB. Earplug use is essential but you won't find it on any product information.
You will, however, at the sites that educate about hearing.
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It is also vital to know that many antibiotics lower the level at which noise can damage ears - even for weeks after stopping the Rx.
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And I know that iPods and such are very popular now. Anyone with tinnitus might try to settle back from in-ear pods and go to the button kind of headphones - but place them IN FRONT of the ear. Still keeping volume just where it can be heard - not loud at all - this can help.
However, getting away from headphones altogether might be necessary as some researchers say the impulses are just too close to the ear nerves and, especially for someone who has any irritation or swelling, can be further damaging.
If tinnitus is worse after taking off headphones, that means some damage is occurring. Just as if, after a concert, your ears ring the next day, damage occurred.
The homeopathic, Arnica, can help. St. John's wort, too, can help nerve irritation in general. Research first, though.
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