Taking anti-anxiety medications does not reduce or eliminate tinnitus symptoms.
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The use of anti-anxiety medications has no effect on the presence or severity of tinnitus symptoms.
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Randomized trialsOne good-quality study supports this claim.
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Randomized Controlled TrialHuman2021
The study found that even when people took anti-anxiety pills, the ringing in their ears didn’t get quieter or go away. The pills helped them feel less upset, but not less ringing.
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Anti-anxiety medications calm the brain's fear and stress centers, which makes the ringing in the ears feel less upsetting, but they do not change the abnormal nerve signals in the hearing system that cause the ringing to happen.
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