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Medical Treatment For Tinnitus • Tinnitus Drug Treatment |
| Conventional medical treatment for tinnitus, including tinnitus drug treatment, can sometimes be effective, but unfortunately only for a very small percentage of cases. Still, conventional medicine is the best starting place for resolving tinnitus. |
| While nearly everyone experiences some level of ear ringing from time to time, when tinnitus symptoms begin to interfere with your quality of life, it's time to see a physician to get things checked out. Your physician may not actually be able to help you, but that's still the best starting place for more than one reason. |
| It may be that the underlying condition in your case is very simple, such as impacted ear wax, in which case the tinnitus can be stopped as simply as cleaning out your ear canal. On the other hand, something serious may be going on, such as vascular lesions, including aneurism and arteriovenous malformations. While rare, such conditions can be quite dangerous and may require surgery. |
| So, it's important to have tinnitus symptoms evaluated by a physician, if only to rule out readily identifiable conditions that respond best to conventional medical treatment for tinnitus or tinnitus drug treatment. However, as stated above, only a small percentage of tinnitus cases, perhaps as low as 5% or less, fall in that category. |
| Conventional Medical Evaluation--What To Expect: |
To determine what underlies your tinnitus symptoms, your physician is likely to begin with a complete physical examination, because tinnitus can be caused by a variety of medical issues. After going through such things as impacted ear wax, inflammation or infection of the outer ear or middle ear or possible pharmaceutical side effects, your physican may refer you to an ENT (ear, nose, throat specialist) or an audiovestibular specialist (a doctor of hearing and balance problems) or an audiologist for further testing.
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| Such testing may include an x-ray to check for structural conditions or an MRI scan which can offer an even better look, and you may also undergo a series of hearing tests. |
| Common Forms of Medical Treatment for Tinnitus: |
| The truth is that conventional medical treatment for tinnitus is quite limited. Most forms remain experimental, and few address the underlying cause, while most focus on merely alleviating or suppressing the symptoms, as in the case of tinnitus drug treatment. Depending on the results of the evaluations and diagnostic tests, the most common forms of medical treatment for tinnitus can include such things as found in the 2 lists below. |
| Examples of conventional remedies that focus on underlying causes: |
- Impacted earwax removal is accomplished most safely by a physician.
- Ear infections can be treated with ear drops or antibiotics as required.
- Certain medications can cause tinnitus as a side effect. Thus, changing medications can help.
- High blood pressure can be treated by changing your diet or taking proper medication.
- Otosclerosis or a tumor or aneurism may require surgery.
- Temporomandibular joint syndrome (TMJ), depending on its form, may require various treatments, including dental correction.
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| Some of the most common tinnitus drug treatment options: |
- Lidocaine, a local anesthetic, can suppress tinnitus symptoms effectively, but because it is only short-acting (hours), it is not practical.
- Anti-anxiety drugs, eg., Xanax and Serax are sometimes used in the belief that reducing excitatory activity in the nervous system can also reduce tinnitus symptoms.
- Anti-convulsants, eg., Tegretol and Klonopin can sometimes suppress tinnitus symptoms by reducing excessive stimulation in the brain.
- Anti-depressants, eg., tricyclics and SSRI's can sometimes suppress tinnitus symptoms.
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| Other possible remedies for suppressing symptoms: |
- Sound therapy, using special white noise generators shows some promise for future development, and the presence of white noise can help to mask the tinnitus noise temporarily, as when trying to sleep.
- Cognitive behavior therapy, essentially a form of psychotherapy, involves learning skills to cope with tinnitus--stop worrying about it, become friends with tinnitus, learn to love it, etc.
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| Summary: |
| While conventional medical treatment for tinnitus is indeed limited, evaluation by your physician is the best place to begin seeking relief for unwanted ear noise. Not only can your physician take care of easily identifiable and treatable conditions, if necessary he or she can refer you to the proper specialist for further evaluation. Perhaps most importantly, traditional health care professionals can help to identify or rule out rare but dangerous underlying conditions. However, in the end, most cases of tinnitus (approximately 95%) cannot really be helped by conventional treatments, which for the most part only suppress tinnitus symptoms, without getting to the underlying causes. |
| The only clinically proven way to get to those underlying conditions that can actually vanquish tinnitus symptoms is holistic, natural treatment for tinnitus that treats the body as a whole, dramatically enhancing one's own immune system and overall health. Moreover, when the holistic healing process is applied directly to tinnitus, the sufferer is safely guided to discover what specific remedy or remedies are required for his or her own individual case, thus saving a lot of time and money on the road to finding lasting relief. |
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