Abstract
Over the past 20 years, 167 patients with tinnitus, probably caused by eighth cranial nerve neurovascular compression syndrome, visited my clinic. The short intermittent tinnitus lasting a few seconds occurred many times a day. I treated 163 patients with Tegretol. The male-to-female ratio of the patients was 57:110. Fifty seven percent, 95 out of 167 patients, developed tinnitus when they were old then 60. The majority of the patients, 164 out of 167 (98%) had unilateral tinnitus. There were no significant differences in the hearing between the tinnitus side and the opposite side. Tegretol proved very effective. The tinnitus completely disappeared in 69 cases and almost disappeared in 26 cases. The effect of tegretol was stronger in elderly patients. In the subgroup of patients with vertigo, tegretol was shown to be more effective than in the patients without vertigo. Many of the patients still had tinnitus lasting several days or months, which recurred every few years.
