# Did you get tinnitus after the second vax?

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**Category:** The Quarantine Zone\
**Tags:** covid-quarantine\
**Created:** [March 5, 2021, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-tinnitus-after-the-second-vax/937210 "2021-03-05T00:33:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-tinnitus-after-the-second-vax/937210/21 "2021-04-23T17:31:24Z")

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I wonder if that’s what’s happened to me. I have a bit more ringing in my ears the past couple of weeks. I try and take care of my hearing too and nothing in the past few months should have created any more problems.

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**Author:** ![Absolute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Absolute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absolute)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2021, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-tinnitus-after-the-second-vax/937210/22 "2021-07-10T01:13:11Z")

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I am definitely noticing an increase in my tinnitus, roughly 72 hours now after my second Pfizer shot.

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**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2021, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-tinnitus-after-the-second-vax/937210/23 "2021-07-10T03:00:01Z")

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> [@RTFirefly](#):
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> My tinnitus wasn’t any more noticeable than usual after either of my Moderna shots. I’ve had a mild case of it since childhood; it’s practically an old friend at this point in life.

Ditto. One of my earliest memories is of learning during a preschool hearing check that most people **don’t** hear a ringing in their ears all of the time - it had already gone on so long at age 4 I couldn’t remember a time before it. Thanks, chronic ear infections and/or tetracycline!

But yeah, for me there was no exacerbation at all after either dose.

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