Thanks again for all of the critical information.Also, give it time. And to win, you need to have lawyers and witness doctors that are better than what the drug companies can produce with their deep pockets.I also started taking Bupropion and now have permanent tinnitus. I had no idea.

Needless to say the tinnitus has never gone away and I do have more difficulty making out conversations now.With all due respect, people who have severe depression are left without many options on the medicine that works for them.I’m sorry to hear of your severe depression. This is what can happen with certain drugs. Is there permanent damage now or is there a chance if i stop now that i can still save my ears?Hard to say. Many studies are short-term studies—maybe for 30 or 60 days. When drug companies conduct trials on new drugs, they focus on the main body organs–heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, brain, etc. It didn’t start until the dose was increased from 150 mg to 300 mg.Many times there is a “magic threshold” dividing where you get ototoxic side effects from taking a higher dose and where you don’t seem to get ototoxic side effects by taking a lower dose. I had the window closCan I take phendimetrazine with Wellbutrin or should I discontinue Wellbutrin use first? I told my doctor after 30 days that I had the side effect but he did not say it was an issue and I kept taking it for another 6 months. I never increased my dosage although I satyed on it for up to a whole two weeks (month total) thinking it might go away as it was not loud. That is why taking multiple drugs can greatly increase your risk of side effects. The trick is to stay below that threshold so you don’t get the ototoxic side effects while the therapeutic effects of the drug work for you.In your case, it would appear that your “magic threshold” is somewhere between 150 and 300 mg but only time will tell for sure as some side effects may not show up for months or years after you start the drug.I have the same issue. When I saw it COULD be ototoxic I called the prescribing physician who agreed he had never heard of that but “let’s try!”. But I suspect that it is NOT due to actual ear congestion, but more a psychological pain. You could even reduce the dose to 100 mg and see if that works for you. It wasn’t till a few minutes ago when I started thinking about recent medical/medicine changes & guess what? I am very much interested in any type of class-action lawsuit if you or anyone reading this has knowledge of one but in the meanwhile just thanks for this forum.I started zyban around 10 days ago, 300mg for the last week.Ringing in my ears just started today but it’s pretty loud actually causing some discomfort because it’s been going all day.I won’t be taking any more of this after reading this board! It doesn’t have to be in both ears like your doctor thinks.I don’t think you have an acoustic neuroma.

When hard of hearing people begin hearing phantom voices or music, they immediately worry they are going crazy. Is there any point in stopping the medication now? I have had blocked eAr ever since. I am stopping the drug immediately and will discuss this with my doctor. If there was a class action I would be onboard in a heartbeat.It sounds like your tinnitus will be permanent. SJW can cause photosensitivity and have bad interactions with other drugs so taking the amount required to have a therapeutic effect for depression should happen while being monitored by a professional.

I believe that pharma companies actually DO have much better drugs to treat depression and anxiety, but meds like bupropion and sertraline bring so much benefit, that they just don’t release them unless these become too exposed and constroversial. When i increased the dose to 300mg, incredible anxiety, heart palpitations i could hear, insomnia, and tinnitus set in. But whatever the truth is, there is no doubt that many, many people have hearing loss and tinnitus as the result of taking Bupropion.Well-meaning, but ignorant people such as your audiologist, because they have not seen, nor accepted, the above evidence as true, try to pooh pooh the idea that Bupropion is ototoxic with such asinine statements as, “I’ve seen thousands of patients on Bupropion over the years” as if that’s reassuring! It is up to them whether they choose to try something else–or even believe anything I write.If you suffer from depression, there are a number of alternatives you can try if you choose to. As a result, side effects like hearing loss or tinnitus may not show up during that time. I’m wondering if a safer dose would be 100 mg. That seems to work for some.This drug is not just ototoxic, but affects many parts of your body. I would have never taken it in the first place.I have had horribly loud ringing in both ears since a week or so before Christmas & it is driving me crazy!

But good chance that I was not armed with the details about being standardized and at certain levels. My tinnitus has not subsided at all since stopping taking the drug. Because i couldn`t sleep anymore, espiecially after hearing about the possible permanence of this side-effect i have quit the lexapro abruptly because i didn`t want to take any risk in making this worse.