Free tool
Does my medication cause tinnitus?
155 generic names, brand names and class names across the 10 drug classes with a documented tinnitus association. Each result gives you what the research actually found, whether the effect reverses, and what kind of evidence it rests on — a pharmacovigilance signal and a randomised trial are not the same thing, and this says which you are looking at.
Generic names, brand names and class names all work. Nothing you type is sent anywhere — the whole list is already in your browser.
What this tool will not do
It will not tell you to stop a medication, and it will not tell you your drug caused your tinnitus. Both of those are outside what a name lookup can honestly support, and the first is dangerous for several of the drugs listed here.
What it is for is walking into an appointment with something specific. “I read that this class is associated with tinnitus, my tinnitus started six weeks after I began it” is a conversation a prescriber can act on. “I read something online” is not.
Frequently asked questions
Does this tell me whether my medication caused my tinnitus?
No, and nothing can from a name alone. What it tells you is whether the class your drug belongs to has a documented association with tinnitus in the research the linked article cites. Association at the level of a drug class is a reason to raise it with your prescriber, not a finding about you.
My drug is on the list. Should I stop taking it?
No. Several drugs here are dangerous to stop abruptly — benzodiazepines can cause seizures on abrupt discontinuation and antidepressants need a supervised taper — and the tool says so on those entries before it says anything else. The right move is telling whoever prescribed it that the tinnitus started or changed, and letting them weigh a dose change, an alternative, or monitoring.
My drug is not on the list. Does that mean it is safe?
It means it is not one of the classes this site has written an article about. That is a much narrower statement than safe. Product information for a specific medicine is more current and more complete than any list on a website, and a pharmacist can check it in a minute.
Why does it search by class rather than by individual drug?
Because that is the level the evidence sits at. Most of the research behind these entries studied a class or a handful of its members, so a per-drug verdict would be inventing precision the studies do not have. Where a class is genuinely not uniform — beta-blockers and statins both are — the entry says which drugs the signal actually sits on.
Is anything I type here sent anywhere?
No. The whole list ships with the page and the matching happens in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is stored, and there is no account.
The full table, with every class side by side, is on medications and tinnitus. For the drugs studied as tinnitus treatments rather than causes, see drugs for tinnitus.