Thursday, November 6, 2008

After a great pain a formal feeling comes

About two days ago, I woke up with a brain splitting earache. The whole right side of my face ached. I couldn't figure out if my ear was causing my jaw pain, or vice versa. Either way, I hurt. I couldn't open my mouth, chew, lay on my right side, or even touch my ear. Thinking it was something that would pass, I let it go. The following morning, it felt slightly better, except as the day progressed, my right ear became fuzzy and then I could hardly hear from it. At this point, I got slightly concerned. With some trepidation, I decided to go to the health center. Previously I had bad experiences there, finding that the doctors were sorely lacking in medical knowledge. Well, I thought that a simple ear infection could be dealt with. I'm not so sure. When the doctor looked in my ear she saw a "huge" ball of wax that was undoubtedly causing my pain. So, bowing to her expert knowledge, I had my ear irragated. They mixed warm water, hydrogen peroxide and rubbing alcohol in a spray bottle with a hose at the end, and proceded to pump two bottles worth into my poor, sore ear. When they were done, the doctor looked in it again, still seeing the wax, and told me to come back the following day. I left, my ear packed full of ear wax softener and cotton, throbbing and stinging from the original pain and now new pain from the flushing. The following morning, I woke up, my ear feeling slightly less painful but much more clogged. So, back I went to the doctor for another two spray bottles pumped into my ear. When the nurse looked in my ear again, she thought it was still there, but according to the doctor, it had come out. It wasn't "huge", because we didn't even notice it come out. When the doctor looked in it again she decide that since they forced so much liquid into it they made it macerated, and much more likely to become infected. I guess what I'm getting at, is, after all that, I'm still in pain, can't hear from my right ear and am on antibiotic drops 4 times a day. If the wax was plugging my ear up, and now that it's gone, why can't I hear? Hooray for doctors!

3 comments:

Indie said...

Oh Lucy, I think you should find out if there is something behind the eardrum, some swelling or something. Maceration would cause pain but not hearing loss, right?

agmon said...

a simple ear infection can be dealt with, you should check out the eardoc.

from the site : "the best thing for Ear infection or swimmers ear is the eardoc. With the Eardoc there relay inst any problem. as it is non invasive and it treats the problem and not the symptoms
www.eardoc.info

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Indie said...

After a couple days on antibiotics, is the ear any better? Does it still hurt? Is it still stuffed up?