Tag: lidocaine

2 posts with this tag

Lidocaine Patch Tinnitus

Written by AudioNotch Team on September 13, 2014

Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research

Tags: lidocaine lidocaine patch tinnitus tinnitus treatment


Lidocaine patches are sometimes used for pain analgesia, such as for diabetic neuropathic pain. They can be applied locally to the skin and then diffuse into the affected area. There have been reports that intravenous administration of lidocaine can relieve tinnitus temporarily, but lidocaine isn't the kind of drug...

Continue Reading →

Tinnitus Treatment Paper: Lidocaine

Written by AudioNotch Team on June 16, 2012

Categories: TinnitusTreatment Review

Tags: lidocaine Tinnitus tinnitus treatment


Here is a link to an abstract on a paper about the effects of Lidocaine on tinnitus. Lidocaine is a medication that is used as a local anesthetic and an anti-arrhythmic agent (suppressing cardiac arrhythmia) . Via brain imaging, it was found to produce both increases and decreases in the loudness of tinnitus. This...

Continue Reading →