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The upshot is that medication-induced tinnitus is just masking and temporary. The audiologist says my hearing is perfect. But different antidepressants cause tinnitus for me, and each causes its own unique tone (and volume!) based on the neutransmitter it predominantly elevates. Ugh.

Sorry, but antidepressant usually don cause tinnitus. This is a rare side effect. They could worse the symptoms if the person ALREADY has the tinnitus... Other medication , very common are the cause for tinnitus. (Antibiotics, blood pressure drugs, etc) I do work with psychopharmacology since 1995 and have seen 4 or 5 cases of tinnitus caused by drugs, most of them caused by 2. Generation of anti psychotic

I didn’t say everyone on antidepressants gets tinnitus. I said people w/tinnitus should check their meds. Even single digit incidence is a lot of people in raw #s, given how many Americans take antidepressants. It definitely was the cause of my tinnitus, and the audiologist I just saw (who specializes in tinnitus) says she sees people all the time who don’t realize their tinnitus is caused by their antidepressant.

Unfortunately, the only antidepressant of the six or seven I’ve tried that doesn’t cause tinntus also doesn’t help my nerve pain much, which is why I was taking an antidepressant in the first place.