Tinnitus: treatment
Written and reviewed by Dr Ibrahim Imam, Consultant Neurologist. Last reviewed .
Tinnitus: treatment. Clonazepam, Amitriptyline: if there is associated depression. Fully referenced neurology checklist.
Drug treatment
- Clonazepam
- Amitriptyline: if there is associated depression
- Sertraline: if there is associated depression
Treatment of typewriter tinnitus
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References
- Han SS, Nam EC, Won JW, et al. Clonazepam quiets tinnitus: a randomised crossover study with ginko biloba. JNNP 2012; 83:821-827.
- Salvi R, Lobarinas E, Sun W. Pharmacological treatments for tinnitus: new and old. Drugs Future 2009; 34:381-400.
- Levine RA. Typewriter tinnitus: a carbamazepine-responsive syndrome related to auditory nerve vascular compression. ORL J Otorhinolaryngol Relat Spec 2006; 68:43-46.
- Mathiesen T, Brantberg K. Microvascular decompression for typewriter tinnitus-case report. Acta Neurochir (Wien) 2015; 157:333-336.
