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by egberts 1764 days ago
Lost my hearing totally within 2 hours of taking Zyban.

Tinnitus is all that I hear nowadays.

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Chiming in late here, also had tinnitus with Bupropion, which remained for months even after I stopped taking it. Lowered my job performance because of it, never had any prior or posterior issues with other amphetamine-like medication (ritalin & vyvanse). I found relief in corticosteroids (combined pill of betametasone + chlorphenamine), which made the tinnitus disappear in a week. Now if it comes back it's very minor and I can ignore it, or go through a short course of medication again to make it go away for a couple of weeks. Oh, and keep out of some noise cancelling headphones, they make it worse for some reason.