Tinnnitus in PD

[Ianfrizell]

Hi all

This is a link to my vlog about tinnitus in PD.

youtu.be/WawM71HvUww(Not working as expected?)

Cheers,

Ian

[RS313]

I actually was diagnosed with this before parkinsons and had to get steroid injections.After i found out i had parkinsons and started meds it went away and never had to get shots after that.

[Rhyothemis]

My father had tinnitus; he was diagnosed with Menier's, and then a few other things, and finally, a few years and many doctor visits later, Multiple System Atrophy.

They also say that neuropathy is not a symptom of MSA, but they mean that it is not useful diagnostically, though I think I read that 40% of MSA patients experience neuropathy. It was the symptom my father mentioned most often and presumably had the biggest impact on his quality of life.

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I have tinnitus, though fairly mild; it is only really bothersome in the evening for some reason. I noticed after doing auricular TENS for vagal nerve stimulation on my right ear that the tinnitus is gone on that side. {I don't have PD}

[GBAMIGOD]

Hi. So is Tinnitus in PD curable or treatable?How do you deal with this.Once in a while I get cracking sound in my ears,especially when I wake up in the mornings.I take a benzo for sleeping as well,and I have read that the wearing off of benzo meds could cause tinnitus as a side effect.Due to this,I am not sure if my tinnitus is a symptom of my PD,or a side effect of benzo.For people with PD,who experience tinnitus,what kind of sound do they experience in the ears?

[Ianfrizell in reply to GBAMIGOD]

I believe tinnitus is not treatable, but some people have said that it has lessened when they started taking PD meds...

My tinnitus is a high pitched tone which varies in volume, apparently randomly!

[Dtwolfe63]

I am 55 and was diagnosed with PD about a year ago. I was unaware about some of the signs... I lost my sense of smell almost entirely about 6 years ago. Around that same time I began having tinnitus and it has gotten much worse as time goes by. It can be quite bothersome and often causes migraine.

[horsplay]

I'm t0 and have pd and tinnitus. I never considered the two were related.

[M1tz1]

I don't have PD, Ian, though I have some symptoms in common. I started with tinnitus many, many years ago but always felt that it was caused by exposure to my son's playing the bagpipes!