Posted by feelndwn on August 7, 2004, at 12:14:09
In reply to Co-morbid Tinnitus and Depression Revisited, posted by CincyJack on August 6, 2004, at 23:44:40
I have been on roughly 5mg of xanax for 9 years. I am now coming off of it and am dealing with a ton of acute withdrawal symptoms. One of them is tinnitus. My tinnitus was like a screaming guitar playing a single note that pulsed all day long. I have since implemented 2 courses of action.
1: less perceptual/stress input. The less stressed I feel the lower my symptoms (including tinnitus). This means less exposure to mall/grocery shopping or outings at peak times, crowds, heavy-trafficed driving. Basically, exposure to locations or events that can cause your hypersensitivity that the drug is causing or has caused to become exacerbated.
2: a vitamin/mineral regime that is totally overhauling my system and giving me the edge in combating my withdrawal symptoms.
Tinnitus occurs when nerve cells in the cochlea, the tiny, snail shellshaped inner ear, are damaged, according to Michael Seidman, M.D., director of the Tinnitus Center at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. These nerves project hairlike endings into the cochlea, which is filled with fluid that moves in waves in response to sounds traveling through the ear. When a sound sends waves through the cochlea, the hairlike endings send a signal to the brain that gets interpreted as sound. When the sounds are too loud and the waves through the cochlea are too intense, the tiny nerve endings become damaged and may send abnormal signals that can cause hissing or buzzing.
In our cases it has been the drugs that have caused this inner ear damage. It is usually caused from a heightened auditory sense by, or from the drug.B12:
When it comes to nerves, vitamin B12 plays a special role. The body needs this nutrient to manufacture myelin, the fatty sheath that wraps around nerve fibers, insulating them and allowing them to conduct their electrical impulses normally.
A vitamin deficiency of B12 can raise blood levels of homocysteine, an amino acid that is thought to be toxic to nerves. Low levels of B12 have been linked to a # of nervous system disorders, including memory loss, decreased reflexes, impaired touch or pain perception -and apparently, tinnitus and noise-induced hearing loss.I could go on and on, but I will stop here. There is so much info on how vitamins & minerals are essential to the body and can easily with time correct problems of great severity. I won't go into all of this because you probably want me to shut up.
My tinnitus has gone away in 2 weeks. My daily vitamin/mineral regime:
Beta-carotene: 25k IU's
Copper: 1.5 mg (1mg for every 10 mg of zinc)
Magnesium: 400 mg
Selenium: 200 mg
B12: 1k mcg
Vitamin C: 500 mg x2 (1 in morning & 1 at night)
Vitamin E: 400 IU's (get the d-alpha-tocopherol, not the dl-alpha-tocopherol) d-alpha-tocopherol is natural and rocks the boat :)
Zinc: 15 mgcaution:
-if you have a heart or kidney problem talk to your doc before starting magnesium.
-if you're on anticoagulants don't take vit. E
-try to take your vit. E and Selenium together
-don't take your vit. C and Selenium together as they interfer with each other's absorptionthis is just my suggestion to you, but dang does it work...your body can heal
poster:feelndwn
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