Please help! Could ANYTHING related to GERD/LPR cause Tinnitus??

The PPIS and H2 Blockers may cause dizziness,  vertigo and tinnitus.  I would check with your pharmacist to see if the med you are currently taking is known to be ototoxic .

Good luck and I am sorry to read you are having this problem.

I've had tinnitus for many years. Gerd related...medicine related...noise related... I don't know...

It does get annoying at times, but I'm getting used to it, anyway if it's perment you will too.

Thank you everyone for your answers.

Carrie> When I was in hospital they did several tests, including head CT and basic ENT checkups. Everything was ok.

Tinnitus is really much, much worse than any other symptom I've ever had :( But it's gerd related forum, so...

I find it hard to believe that going off PPIs after just a month could cause rebound, but it really looks like rebound. Common sense tells me that stomach should be empty after several hours since the last meal. Meanwhile I can literally feel like there's a PIECE OF FOOD in my esophagus. That + lots of burping and occasional sharp pain behind the left ribs. Oh lord what is going on with me, within a week my health spiraled down completely, I'm a wreck right now.

I have severe tinnitus, but it took many years of taking PPI's to cause the tinnitus.

Summer

Incognito

i have not posted here for a long time due to debilitating tinnitus that i believe was vey possibly caused by taking drugs to treat gerd

it really had me on the ropes

certainly association is not causation so i may never know what caused my horrendous tinnitus but i do know what i did to stop the progression when i ceased taking H2 and PPI medications, and slowly i have gotten a little better

i strongly suspect that one, or the other, or the combination, of PPIs twice a day with a tab of H2s late in the evening to prevent night time reflux was ...if not the cause... at least a significant aggravating factor

i have lpr and i burn way up high in my throat, and now of course i get to deal with horrendous, loud, incessant tinnitus...i "hear three sounds...an ultra high frequency whistle or squeal...like a tea kettle whistle sound or squealing disk brakes...but several octaves higher in pitch...i "hear" a broad band hisssss, like escaping steam...and i hear a jumble of random tones, mid frequency, like what one hears on the telephone when you mistakenly connect to a fax machine number

and so i quit taking famotidine and quit taking omeprazole and this clearly halted the progression of the problem...things stopped getting worse and things even got a little better, but...i still got my back up against the wall dealing with awful tinnitus and awful gerd-lpr

you need to know that the human brain will learn to tune the tinnitus out, or at least tone down the perception of tinnitus, in time....in time...but that often takes a year or a bit more

the actual medical term for this process is called "habituation" and the process is well documented in medical literature, and real. to accomplish this you must use optimistic self talk, like, "this is a fake noise and i will get used to it...tinnitus can not hurt me unless i let it and i refuse to let tinnitus control my life" etc

then...you must keep yourself busy and try to not "listen" to the tinnitus or frequently "check its loudness" or think often and at length about, is it louder? or better ? or worse today than yesterday or this morning ?...you must stop focusing on tinnitus

play soft wide-frequency music to keep your auditory cortex busy with (real) non tinnitus sounds...keep it soft, and listen to tracks of wind, rain and rushing water...at low volumes...this distracts the brain from the tinnitus sound

and stay busy...mow the lawn (USE EAR PROTECTION, loud noise and some drugs are an especially destructive combination), go for walks, watch movies and take up an acoustic musical instrument that you can play softly

never take a drug without checking for its potential ototxicity (poison to the inner ear-cochlea)...specifically aminoglycoside antibiotics (like gentamycin are a huge source of ototoxicity an thee are hundreds of other drugs on the list...visit the ATA web site (american tinnitus association)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aminoglycoside

http://www.ata.org/

it is not uncommon for people who have very bad tinnitus to think self destructive thoughts...you are not alone, but please believe me you can and will get past this but you have to give your brain time to adjust and you MUST stop telling yourself cataclysmic thoughts...you can rise above this...you can...i know this, and you shall know this too

h2s and PPIs are not a problem via ototoxicity for many if not most patients...you and i are the rare exception who have vulnerable hearing to these substances...im so sorry for us all

please see a doctor about this as sometimes the tinnitus is caused by factors that can be treated like circulation-blood pressure issues, tmj and non malignant growths on the auditory nerve bundle

hang in there, you are not alone

best wishes
mock turtle

mudmagnetmum
thank you for the kinds words...we are pals

ive been doing better lately and have been reading here on and off

i think often about the friends i mede here and wish you all well

i see where some have suffered setbacks , life is not easy but we soldier on

there have been medical advances during my absence...im remain hopeful for us all

best wishes
mt

I realize this is an old thread, however I am experiencing this same effect I was on 3 different PPI's since diagnosed with GERD this past June of this year. I was having panic attacks due to feeling like I could not swallow or the lump in throat feeling. Primary care didn't diagnose GERD at first but said it was Panic disorder and I was put on Paxil, had seizure like activity on Paxil, switched me to Zoloft and symptoms of seizures reoccurred. I finally went to ER and I had Acute essphagitus and spasms, got on a great GI regimen and then 3.5 weeks ago the tinnitus started :( been off all meds for 2 .5 weeks and am drinking 2 oz of Aloe Vera juice in the morning 1/2 hour before meals. I'm so depressed about this, but am finding help thru the A.T.A. Will see the Ear specialist oct.8th and will then decide if I will continue with a PPI, as they really do work well I just can't stand the ringing! Sigh!

My tinnitus fully resolved after iron infusion - always worth ruling out non-GERD causes.

MMM