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• Steps
• Tips
• Warnings

Are you worried about noise, ringing, buzzing in your ears? The complex of these symptoms is called tinnitus. Most of the causes of tinnitus can be easily treated, but you need to find them first.

Steps

1. 1 Determine if you have tinnitus. Many people neglect this symptom.
2. 2 Think of an incident that may have contributed to or provoked tinnitus. If you do not recall a similar case, the cause of the ringing in the ears could be health problems that have existed for a while, and may still be. Main reasons:
   • Effects of Noise on Hearing Aids: Long-term exposure to loud sounds such as music, gunfire, aircraft noise, could irreparably damage the hair cells in the hearing aid that send impulses to the auditory nerve when exposed to sound waves. When hair cells are damaged, they can send false impulses to the auditory nerve, from which a person will hear sound even if there is none.
   • Stress, if not eliminated, can build up and impair the body's response, which also affects health. All this can affect the hearing aid as well.
   • Sinus inflammation can progress to middle ear inflammation (via infected fluid), which can also cause ringing or tinnitus.
   • Allergic reactions are often indirectly associated with tinnitus due to:
   • Taking ototoxic medications: Check your prescription or ask your doctor if you are prescribed any such medications. One of the side effects of these drugs is tinnitus. Often, other groups of drugs have this side effect. For example - aspirin (from the group of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) in high doses can cause tinnitus.
3. 3 Meniere's disease. May cause dizziness and tinnitus.
4. 4 Know your symptoms. In addition to tinnitus, other symptoms may appear, such as: dizziness, headaches, pain in the neck, ears, jaw, temporomandibular joint. Take note of all symptoms, whether you are sure they are related to tinnitus or not.
5. 5 See a doctor. He or she will examine you, diagnose and prescribe treatment.

Tips

• Ototoxicity, as mentioned above, also known as "ear intoxication" can be caused by certain medications such as: analgesics, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, antibiotics, loop diuretics, chemotherapy drugs.
• An auditory neuroma is a small, benign tumor that can compress and invade the auditory nerve.
• High blood cholesterol clogs the arteries that supply oxygen to the nerves of the inner ear.
• Temporomandibular joint dysfunction is characterized by tinnitus, headache, pain and crunching when chewing.
• There are other conditions that cause tinnitus:
• Vascular disorders that are caused by compression of nerves or blood vessels.

Warnings

• Don't ignore tinnitus. Like other symptoms, this is a warning signal. Your body says something is wrong.
• Some causes of tinnitus are incurable, for example, the therapeutic effect of the drug may be much more important than the appearance of ringing in the ears, so many people learn to live with this unpleasant symptom.