In an interview with MedPage Today, he recounts nearly veering out of his lane driving back from the hospital after receiving his second dose.

“It was like someone suddenly blew a dog whistle in my ear,” Poland told the medical journal. “It has been pretty much unrelenting.”

Poland has been experiencing what he describes as life-altering tinnitus.

As a vaccinologist, he still believes in the importance of getting jabbed despite his side-effect. Fearing the possibility of contracting COVID and spreading it to his patients, he opted to receive a booster.

However, individuals across the country and around the world have shared with him their experience post-vaccine, saying they too have developed tinnitus after COVID vaccination.

“What has been heartbreaking about this, as a seasoned physician, are the emails I get from people that, this has affected their life so badly, they have told me they are going to take their own life,” Poland said.

The WHO reported 367 cases of tinnitus and 164 cases of hearing loss among the 11 billion vaccines administered — with onset ranging from a few minutes to 19 days, but most commonly within a day of the jab.

Dr. Christian Rausch and Dr. Qun-Ying Yue of the Uppsala Monitoring Centre, a Swedish nonprofit organization that collaborates with the WHO, identified the adverse side effect.

“One case of tinnitus following the first dose decreased over a couple of days,” the doctors wrote in the WHO newsletter, “but hearing loss recurred after the second dose, and the patient was started on steroid treatment; no risk factors were recorded.

“Another case described bilateral tinnitus more than a week after the first dose and worsening 1.5 weeks after the second dose. Receipts of unspecified medications were recorded, and the patient consulted an ear, nose and throat (ENT) physician. Another described hearing loss occurring which decreased within two days after the first dose, but re-occurring with the second dose, which required steroid treatment.”

According to their findings, people who reported tinnitus ranged in ages from 19 to 93 and 63 percent of the cases were women. The symptom was recorded in 27 countries including the United States, the United Kingdom and Italy. Additionally, more than a third of the cases reported came from those working in the health care industry.

“The most reported COVID-19 vaccines in these cases were Pfizer/BioNTech,” the WHO bulletin stated, making up approximately 80 per cent of the cases.

Researchers noted that hearing loss is not included as an adverse reaction on the product labeling for COVID-19 vaccines and tinnitus is only listed for the Janssen COVID-19 vaccine.

So far, research has been limited to a study published in February examining the potential association between COVID-19 vaccination and sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL).

“It seems that hearing disorders have been reported for most of the COVID-19 vaccines, but with different IC025 values,” the report said. “More in-depth assessment of narratives has not been performed for the recently reported cases.”

As research is limited, the WHO noted that precautions for the data and its interpretation will be taken into consideration.

Medical experts concluded that this particular symptom, though uncommon, should still be monitored.

“As the literature and ICSR data are still limited for this link, further monitoring is required,” the WHO newsletter stated.

Source: NationalPost

Comment by Gabe Ohms:

I’m a victim. Lost about 30% of hearing in my left ear the day after. And the ringing started soon after. A year later and it rings 24/7. Forever damaged from the vaccine. Astra Zeneca for me. The doctor originally didn’t believe it was the vaccine. However, 3 months later he contacted me telling me that 2 more people had the same systems right after their shots and he wanted to report all cases to the government. So I guess I was one of the 400 in the world? That’s BS. There are WAY more if my doctor saw 3 himself.