It kinda subtly can reduce perceived tinnitus, the effect will not
happen instantly, but rather within a three week period.

It is a strong blood thinning agent, and increases capillary bloodflow.
The offered explanation is that increased blood supply to the inner ear
helps the nerves recover.
It may be more likely that it reduces tinnitus simply because the
increase in capillary bloodflow is an efficient way to reduce blood
pressure.

Gingko Biloba can be problematic in case of surgery or injury as it will
increase bleeding from cut or injured tissue and the combination effects
of it used in conjunction with other blood thinning or blood vessel
expanding agents are poorly known. (Source: local newspapers, about a
year ago, reporting some study of its effects.)

It may in my unsskilled opinion be a very useful alternative medication
for blood-pressure or blood-flow related ailments, but it should
probably be used with the same caution as prescription drugs and with
the caveat that actual contraindications are not well known. I did find
it helpful for a period some time ago, but thinking back I probably had
hypertension already then. Some types of hypertension medication also
works by influencing capillary bloodflow (example: Cozaar) and appears
to me to have the same mitigating effect on tinnitus and a much worse
effect on your wallet.

Tinnitus is a perceived noise that occurs while your hair cells recover
from noise exposure to whatever extent they can recover. Modest noise
exposures tend to cause instant tinnitus, with severe exposure the onset
of the recovery tinnitus can be delayed for several days. Simply said:
when you perceive tinnitus the body considers the damage that has
occured to the audiotory system at least somewhat repairable.

Tinnitus recovery is in stages of "three days", "three weeks", "three
months" and posibly also "three years". Do not expect something fast to
happen. Welcome your tinnitus, it is an indication of ongoing repair
work.,

Yes, tinnitus once it is there will worsen temporarily in case of noise
exposure. Not all noise exposure can be avoided.

Your attitude is more broken than your ears, fix your attitude. You
should be concerned in case of tinnitus, but not scared. Leave scared
for the period between noise exposure and tinnitus, I was scared when it
took three days for tinnitus to occur after a severe left ear noise
exposure, and audiograms later confirmed that being scared was proper
and timely, and I was glad when tinnitus finally started after that
event.

You will have tinnitus for quite some time to come if it has not
subsided within 3 weeks after a noise exposure. It will not be constant,
some days will be good, some will be bad, sometimes for reasons known
and sometimes for no apparent reason. Go to some acoustic, unamplified
concerts, chamber music or similar, and enjoy listening, enjoy what you
can hear and get psychologically acustomed to the short time increase of
tinnitus that you will get - not may get, but will get - from the
applause. What you yourself can do is to get better at using your
listening capability, and listening to the pleasant sounds of real
musical instruments is a good way to practice listening. And music is
good for the soul.

As many here I can say: bin there, not a nice place to be. Adjust your
attitude and move on. Fix your attitude and your perceived tinnitus will
be less of a concern and quite probably subside faster because of just
that. Take care to avoid a stress related build up of neck tensions ....
one participant here feels that such are the real cause of tinnitus, not
noise exposure, there is certainly not general agreement on that, but it
is in my experience correct that annoyance from tinnitus can cause neck
tensions that cause neck pain.

All of the above constitutes unskilled personal opinion, not "medical
fact", whatever that may be.

  Kind regards

  Peter Larsen

Darth I took GB for quite a while until I was warned off it by one of the
more experienced group members here. Like all-things-tinnitus, it was hard
to definitely decide whether GB was really helping or not. But I was
starting to get a tendency for minor nose-bleeds and this could have been a
danger sign of worse to come.

So I then switched to low-dose aspirin, thinking this might be safer but
have the same blood-thinning effect.  Nose bleeds stopped.  Anyway, I've now
cut this down further, to one eighth of a tablet (37mg) a day and plan to
gradually come off it.  I found low-dose Aspirin at least as good or better
than Ginkgo Biloba at doing the job.

Steve O

It depends on the individual's reaction.  I have been taking gingko for
almost a year now and I have not discovered any bleeding from nose or
whatever.  The gingko pills I take are made from natural leafs rather
than extracts. Gingko biloba helped to transform my ring from the
centre of the head to the ringing in the drum. That releases quite a
bit of annoyance.

FP