Maybe far from the most important side effect from Covid vaccines. I have tinnitus. Don't know what caused it. I rarely went to loud concerts in my life, and always wore foam earplugs when I did. It is temporarily increased by caffeine and aspirin. But not a problem for me: My solution is to have something to listen to 24 hours a day. And an audiophile, that's easy to do, with stereo systems and fours pairs of speakers in various places throughout the house. Never played loud. I could never fall asleep in a perfectly silent room even as a child, so always used a clock radio anyway. Now I often listen to a radio station, or the soundtrack (only) from a DVD, when failing asleep. I know tinnitus can be a much bigger problem for people who don't spend their waking hours listening to music, as I'm doing now. People who need silence to fall asleep will never get it if they have tinnitus. Meanwhile, I never think of it until louder ringing in my ears tells me I've had enough caffeine for one day. I'd probably miss the ringing, if it ever stopped! Just kidding.
STORY AT-A-GLANCE
Tinnitus is a noise you hear in one or both ears triggered inside the auditory system; it is a symptom of an abnormality or injury and not a specific disease
Tinnitus is one symptom of long COVID and from the COVID shot. How the symptom is triggered is still being studied; the virus can infect inner ear cells and the spike protein can disrupt blood supply to the sensitive structures responsible for hearing
One study found 53% of those with mild to moderate COVID had sensorineural hearing loss, which was present in all patients who took remdesivir. Other long COVID symptoms include fatigue, memory problems, depression or anxiety, mood changes and joint pain
One of the key strategies to preventing infection and treating long-haul symptoms is to protect and support your gut microbiome. Doctors also prescribe holistic support, rest and a gradual increase in activity
Since the start of 2020, people who have gotten COVID-19 have not all recovered immediately. Some have experienced symptoms for several weeks or months after recovering from the infection. These symptoms have been called chronic COVID, long COVID, long-haul syndrome, long-haul COVID, and post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC).1
One of the symptoms is tinnitus, or a consistent ringing in the ears. Doctors have also noticed that the constellation of symptoms from long COVID is strikingly similar to myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome or ME/CFS.2 Doctors at Columbia University have asked if these two conditions could be closely related or one and the same." ..
