New on here and nervous.

[Noise1966]

Hi everyone. I'm new on here.

I've had tinnitus for over 25 years and have lived with it. I was given a prescribed medication from my GP and I am sure this has affected my tinnitus and made it worse. The medication is 'Bendroflumethiazide'

[rabbits65]

Thanks for sharing this information . I never trust medicine , it just goes to show doesn’t it . I do hope you feel better soon . Will you carry on taking this drug or will you stop taking it ?

[Hidden]

Hi Noise1966 I'm sorry to here about you tinnitus. Mine came back a good while ago and I spoke to my doctor she said it's possible it could be some of my meds I'm on but I joined here and a very nice person said to me have you had your hearing cheak I said not for over 3 years I was already wearing hearing aids. So I got an appointment and found my hearing had got worse as soon as my new hearing aids were fitted tinnitus has gone I must say I struggle at bed time when I take them out but it's one of them things I deal with. Xx

[Happyrosie]

So that med is for raised blood pressure, according to my quick research.

[Happyrosie]

Sorry I pressed ‘send’ before I had finished replying. I was going to say, if your BP meds give side effects your doc might want to try different ones. Mind you, all medication has side effects. Personally I take BP meds and they don’t seem to affect me except keep my bp under control - but then I’m lucky. Certainly didn’t make my tinnitus worse.

[TinnitusUKPat Partner]

Hi Noise

Welcome to the forums. We can never quite tell whether medication is at fault during an increase in tinnitus or if the reason for the rise lies somewhere else.

I normally check the Yellow Card database to see if the reports of a symptom being worsened are supported by data:

info.mhra.gov.uk/drug-analy...

12 total reports - so certainly some people have reported interactions with this medication and tinnitus, albeit at what you might describe as a low number.

I would have to guess that the type of tinnitus you have might shed more light on the increase - if it were pulsatile tinnitus, rather than a tonal sound, for example.

[JONNSONN]

I have been on bendroflumethiazide for years for blood pressure and water retention never did anything to my tinnitus ever

[springlullaby]

Hi there, so from what I was reading online it looks like that loop diuretics can cause ear ringing because they are potent, and although the medication you are taking is classified as a thiazide diuretic, if you are sensitive it could cause ringing too.