Although it is obvious, the first action to take when a problem arises when you pita physical and the right ear, is without a doubt, go to the doctors for advice. This will be the person best qualified to diagnose our problem and referred to a specialist as appropriate.

Anyway, it never hurts to have some information about what happens to us before the consultation with the doctor. In fact, it can often be helpful to know a little better the symptom that afflicts us as we may have some tool to better tell the doctor what happens to us. Often valuable time is lost in studies or tests that may be avoided if the patients provided complete information at the time of the appointment with the doctor, when he makes a general history of the symptoms presented.

First you should know that when you “beep” right ear only (or left, but only one), we are dealing with a symptom called unilateral tinnitus or tinnitus. And when the tinnitus is in the form of ringing, hissing or ringing, it is called non-pulsatile tinnitus. Well, we know that our ear ringing is called unilateral non-pulsatile tinnitus.

Once you know a little more about our symptoms, we could try to gather some more information about it. We should pay some attention to be clear, for example, at what time of day increases or decreases, if it becomes more annoying when sleeping, if next to tinnitus developed some other symptoms, if a family history, etc.

All this information is a guide to help the specialist to get faster to a correct diagnosis and subsequent treatment of the problem when I pita the right ear.

For your peace of mind, know that most cases of tinnitus otologic conditions correspond to simple or even may even be the result of taking certain medications.

There are many medical causes or conditions that are declared with noise, ringing or throbbing in the ears and do not always have to do with otological disorders.

The main action to be taken by those who feel a constant noise in the ear (or tinnitus) is go to a specialist and provide as much information as possible about the trouble you are experiencing. The ENT doctor will also establish a good empatización with the patient in order to determine the degree of impact on your life, because the latter is usually the most important factor in deciding the beginning of treatment.

Once the tinnitus severity index and the type of tinnitus experienced, determined by its characteristics (whether pulsatile or nonpulsatile, if continuous or intermittent, etc..), The doctor will order a series of studies to determine the cause.

Initially, the specialist will perform a physical examination focused primarily ENT laryngeal area, neck and heart and circulatory system.

In most cases the constant noise in the ear is associated with a hearing loss or hearing loss. Depending on the primary test results for cases of unilateral hearing loss (in one ear) also ordered the otolaryngologist “cerebellopontine angle Magnetic Resonance” and if the hearing loss is bilateral, check your “Otoacoustic Emissions” and “Potential Auditory Evoked Brain Stem. ”

While most cases of tinnitus arises from otologic causes, there are other possible conditions that cause such as: vascular factors, blood factors, drugs, topical agents otological, neurological factors and metabolic factors.

For each of these triggers permanent noise in the ear, the specialist may offer a more or less effective depending on the condition and the patient, who at all times who will determine the effectiveness of such treatment on his condition.

Once the doctor has determined the illness associated with tinnitus (a symptom that often comes as a ringing in the ear), shall endeavor to drug treatment depending on age and sex of the patient, the intensity of tinnitus and the condition or physical factor associated with symptoms.

The drugs have been proven and accepted by medical specialists for treatment of tinnitus are Aprazolam, nortriptyline and amitriptyline.

The Aprazolam is a benzodiazepine that showed remarkable improvement in the quality of life of patients with tinnitus without appeasing the perception of tinnitus.

Amitriptyline and nortriptyline are both antidepressants showed very good results especially in patients with depressive symptoms associated. In the case of nortriptyline are the most effective factors that the patient is female and that the type of tinnitus suffered cause sleep disorders.

Other drugs have been used and tested for tinnitus, but without great results with little clinical or scientific consistency in the trials.

The downside to drug treatments are natural or alternative therapies, which often have significantly greater improvements to the formal treatment, perhaps depending in large part to the subjectivity of each patient.

Among the natural treatments there is a wide range of options ranging from acupuncture to hypnosis through homeopathic preparations, biofeedback, electrical stimulation, ultrasound, etc.

A widely accepted treatment for tinnitus is “tinnitus retraining therapy.” This therapy consists of retraining the patient’s ear using specific audio transmitters that act on the ear for a few hours per day for a period of one or two years. All this accompanied by psychological therapy and monitoring professionals.