Nortriptyline make your tinnitus worse? I went to psychiatrist to get antianxiety meds and as usual they refused to prescribe them to me even know that's what actually gives me relief from this noise. They gave me nortriptyline and I could took 2 pills and my ringing is WORSE. I am scared shitless this is permanent. My ringing my tolerable, kind of, before after doing some acupuncture and now idk what to do with myself. I fell asleep for 3 hours and now I am up and can't fall back to sleep. I know my cause is due to microvascular compression of my auditory nerve which was found in an MRI. The only cure is brain surgery which is equally terrifying. I thought I could manage the level the ringing was at if I had antianxiety meds but now this level is worse. Anyone take this drug and did you get better or worse? and if worse did it go back down to your normal levels?
https://www.healthline.com/health/nortriptyline-oral-capsule#side-effects
I don't see that as a side effect hun. Is the ringing increasing?
Yeah I know but its happening anyways. I think most anti depressants will either exacerbate or flat out cause tinnitus. Nortriptyline was one of those that has even shown "some" benefit in decreasing tinnitus in studies, but it had the opposite effect on me so I was wondering if anyone else took this drug and had an increase in their severity?