Does Anastrozole cause tinnitus?
.....WHAT'S THAT?? CAN YOU SPEAK UP?!?! About a week ago all of a sudden I became horribly aware of having tinnitus. I have had ringing in the ears occasionally in life, as you do. Never like this ...
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Chemotherapy. Medications that can damage the inner ear are called ototoxic. Certain types of chemotherapy are ototoxic. These include platinum-based drugs such as cisplatin (Platinol) and carboplatin (Paraplatin). The first sign of ototoxicity is often tinnitus. Hearing loss usually occurs when the drug damages the sensory hair cells in the inner ear that help process sound. Typically, it occurs in both ears.
Those little hairs in the ears and the nose are there for a reason but we haven't yet got a chemotherapy that can differentiate. At least in the nose, my only long term result so far, after months of a bloody, crusty nose, is a tendency to same whenever I have a sniffle. But apparently damage to the ears may be more crucial.
I hear hear you about warnings. Problem is, that at the other end of the process, if my oncologist had laboured every possible side effect, I might have not agreed to have chemo. The list he went through was scary enough. And I didn't get any of the common ones. This end of the process I live with the side effects I have, and am glad I didn't have to make any harder a decision. But it's all highly individual, and almost impossible to know at the time what you are prepared to risk. Nearly everyone looks back in some amazement with what they have encountered and dealt with, somehow.
Those little hairs in the ears and the nose are there for a reason but we haven't yet got a chemotherapy that can differentiate. At least in the nose, my only long term result so far, after months of a bloody, crusty nose, is a tendency to same whenever I have a sniffle. But apparently damage to the ears may be more crucial.
I hear hear you about warnings. Problem is, that at the other end of the process, if my oncologist had laboured every possible side effect, I might have not agreed to have chemo. The list he went through was scary enough. And I didn't get any of the common ones. This end of the process I live with the side effects I have, and am glad I didn't have to make any harder a decision. But it's all highly individual, and almost impossible to know at the time what you are prepared to risk. Nearly everyone looks back in some amazement with what they have encountered and dealt with, somehow.