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Take aspirin and tinnitus might follow. There are remedies for tinnitus. You will read about them on this web page.

Aspirin and Tinnitus

Aspirin is chemically known as acetylsalicylic acid and abbreviated ASA. You can use aspirin to:

  • Relieve the pain of minor aches
  • Reduce a fever
  • Reduce inflammation

Aspirin also has an antiplatelet effect in the blood. Doctors recommend low-dose aspirin therapy to help prevent heart attacks and strokes. There are two undesirable side effects from aspirin. One is gastrointestinal bleeding and the other is tinnitus. Too much aspirin definitely causes a ringing sound in your ears.

As a cancer patient you may have had chemotherapy. One of the side effects of chemotherapy is tinnitus. It is very annoying and distracting. Tinnitus is the noise of hissing, or buzzing, or whistling in one or both of your ears.

The inner part of your ear has tiny hairs called cilia. The cilia respond to sounds by vibrating. If the cilia are damaged, you will lose some of your hearing and you may have tinnitus. The auditory nerve connects from your inner ear to the brain. The sound signals (vibrations) travel along this path.

Remedies for Tinnitus

There are many suggested remedies for tinnitus. Some of them are listed here for you.

  • Acoustic therapy. It recommends the use of sound generators. A sound generator could be a CD or an actual noise-generating machine with volume controls and frequency settings. The purpose of the sound generators is to produce a pleasing sound that will be background noise. It will distract you from the sounds of your tinnitus. The sound generators produce sounds of rain falling, or the ocean waves crashing on a beach, or birds chirping.
  • Medications. There are two antidepressant drugs that help with tinnitus. One is amitriptyline and the other is nortriptyline. They do have unpleasant side effects, such as dry mouth and constipation. Some doctors prescribe Xanax or Valium, but they can make you drowsy. Maybe they would help you fall asleep. The FDA has not approved any of these drugs for use for tinnitus.
  • Vitamins. There are some researchers who think that a deficiency of B vitamins causes tinnitus. That may be true if you have not have chemotherapy. Anyone who is exposed to very loud noises is likely to damage their inner ear.
  • Special hearing aids. They are electronic masking devices that work when other methods fail. Cochlear implants and cochlear stimulation devices are under investigation for severe cases of tinnitus. Surgical injections of lidocaine directly into the inner ear are also under investigation.
  • Ginkgo biloba. An herb that is used to improve blood flow and nerve function. It may help alleviate tinnitus.
  • Lifestyle changes. Avoid caffeine, the most common tinnitus aggravator. A low-salt diet may be helpful. It may reduce your blood pressure.

Finally, you will soon be able to buy a product right here on this web site. It is a natural product in the form of eardrops. It contains seven active ingredients in a solution of glycerin. It is said to help relieve tinnitus. We offer a money back guarantee. You have nothing to lose in trying it.

Conclusion

If you take aspirin and tinnitus follows, try one of the other non-aspirin pain relievers. I hope you have learned something of value from this web page about remedies for tinnitus.

If you have any questions about colon cancer, or chemotherapy, or aspirin and tinnitus, please send them our way. If you have success with one of the remedies for tinnitus, let us know. We are always happy to hear from our readers.

Written by Margaret Stenerson - 9/30/10

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