Yes. As a matter of fact, my tinnitus started shortly after I was
prescribed the same drug, but I didn't associate it with the tinnitus
because:

1. I didn't know what tinnitus was until I had a hearing examination
to find out what was wrong and that test was at least six months after
I started taking the drug.

2. After having perfectly normal blood pressure up till then, I'd only
developed hypertension after I was concussed and lost consciousness
for a couple of minutes when I had an accident at work.

Since I literally forgot about the accident at work, I didn't connect
any of the strange health problems I was experiencing with the
concussion. A few months later, when my wife and I were discussing the
problems with our GP, she asked me if I had suffered any head injuries
in the past few months and I suddenly remembered. But at that point I
wasn't suffering from tinnitus.

I can't remember the brand of atenolol I started out on, but after a
couple of years I developed a nagging night-time cough that drove my
wife and me crazy and discovered that this was one of the side-effects
of the "delivery agent" in the brand I was taking.

Over the next few years I had to change the brand/delivery agent three
more times ... until I was introduced to a herbalist/healer who gave
me a course of herbals combined with diet changes that got my BP back
to normal without the use of atenolol (and all the other drugs I was
taking to deal with various side-effects). It was recommended that I
didn't stop the atenolol all at once, but cut down gradually. So
that's what I did.

So yes ... my tinnitus started not long after I began taking atenolol
and gradually became worse over the years. The only thing that makes
me pretty positive that it was the atenolol and not the concussion
that cause it is because I didn't start taking the atenolol until
several months after the injury.

I still have tinnitus, but it has improve a bit and hasn't gotten any
worse since I started the herbal/diet treatment (which involved
cutting out caffeine, which I still don't touch) and stopped taking
atenolol and other allopathic drugs.

Hope that helps. b

I haven't taken any medication for 2 decades.  Definitely no
connection here.  But maybe your hypertension affected your neck/upper
spine mobility.  Always look to the neck.

On 4/20/07 9:23 PM, in article
1177129429.978298.289040@p77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com, "bigvince"
<Vince.Miraglia@gmail.com> wrote:

I started taking Atenalol and my dog died, my car got stolen and my stocks
went down.
Be careful on assuming it is the medication. Remember the lawyers list the
same 101 side effects for all the PDR drugs.

Yes, hydrochloridethiazer, a direutics.

Yes, Vince, I can attest to the connection between tinnitus and atenolol
(generic brand). Just recently I reduced my dose from 50mg to 25mg and has
resulted in cutting the tinnitus down to about 30-20% of what it was.  Now,
I hardly notice it.  I take it in the evening at bedtime.

I made the connection some weeks ago with my GP.  I was taking atenolol for
skipped heart beats (actually called premature beats) for a year or so..
Atenolol solved it but it seems that 25mg dose does the job well.  I did not
make the connection between atenolol and tinnitus at that time.

I am not using atenolol for blood pressure control.  I take a couple of
other meds (nifedipine and valsartan) for that in the morning upon rising.

Dave C.