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Old 05-05-2012, 02:09 PM
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FWIW, I was just researching treatments for tinnitus (for my wife) and several sites (including Wiki) mentioned tricyclics (amitriptyline, nortriptyline) in small doses as a treatment for subjective tinnitus.

However, benzodiazepines (alprazolam in particular) are mentioned as both cause and treatment - cause being part of benzodiazepine withdrawal, and treatment being to take/increase it again. Not the best of solutions, IMO.

I don't recall seeing it specifically mentioned, but tricyclics may work the same way - cause and treatment.

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