My younger son has had tinnitus for some time. He took an antibiotic not knowing it was ototoxic and his tinnitus is off the charts. He is beyond despondent. I am scared for him.
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I've had tinnitus for 10 years now, and just recently I got really sick with some kind of nasty cold or virus, so I decided to try ivermectin to help me get over it. So far so good. It's taken the edge off the symptoms but still pretty bad. Anyway, since I'm finally using ivermectin I'll let you know if it seems to be helping my tinnitus. So far I don't think I feel any difference but it's only been a few days.
How’s your ferritin level and vitamin D level?
There’s a few other deficiencies that contribute to tinnitus: b12, magnesium, zinc
Vitamin D is at a great level. Iron/ferritin is a bit lower than it should be but still normal. Thankfully I've been able to raise it up over the past few months. B12 is super high, sometimes off the charts high, so I seem to be fine on that for a while. Magnesium and zinc are also normal too. I've been having my levels checked a lot this past year because of other health issues, and everything seems to finally be at a good spot (though my B12 is really high, but that's partly because the body stores any extra you ingest, so it holds onto a lot before it uses it all up).
Sadly I don't think my tinnitus will ever go away because it was caused by a medication side effect that my doctors did NOT warn me about (thanks, morons). But I've learned to live with it now. Still, if the ivermectin helps at all I'll let y'all know. Would be nice if it did but I'm not getting my hopes up.
Thank you
Thank you
Please do let us know. Knowledge is power, after all. Good luck, I hope it helps
Update: After taking ivermectin really consistently for a week during my illness I can confidently say that it had no effect on my tinnitus. My tinnitus is neither worse nor better, nor changed in sound, pitch, or frequency. It's exactly the same.
Of course, taking it only for a week might not be enough to fix such a serious problem, but if ivermectin is supposed to help even a little bit I would have noticed some kind of difference, however small, by now. I'm sorry to say that ivermectin doesn't seem to help with tinnitus, at least for me. Perhaps if I had enough to take it for several months it may help, but I don't have that much ivermectin on hand to do that. Maybe when it becomes available over the counter in the US I can try that.