Ear Infections

Lazarus

Lazarus

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Has anyone experienced what I'm going through right now - two months ago the hearing in my one good ear disappeared overnight, returning a month later for a few days before disappearing again and taking my already damaged (Tinnitus and high frequency total loss) with it.

I'm currently profoundly deaf with no prognosis.

Tried everything my GP and Dr.Google suggest, but no joy.

Would a course of leeches do the trick? :(
 
Were/are you from a family with musical talent ?
 
Lazarus said:
Has anyone experienced what I'm going through right now - two months ago the hearing in my one good ear disappeared overnight, retuning a month later for a few days before disappearing again and taking my already damaged (Tinnitus and high frequency total loss) with it.

I'm currently profoundly deaf with no prognosis.

Tried everything my GP and Dr.Google suggest, but no joy.

Would a course of leeches do the trick? :(
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I have an ear infection during winter months. I put Tiger Balm on my ear and the germs flee.
 
Mooncamm said:
I have an ear infection during winter months. I put Tiger Balm on my ear and the germs flee.
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Just Googling ..... (and as long as it doesn't turn out to be Cat Poo)
 
Lazarus said:
Has anyone experienced what I'm going through right now - two months ago the hearing in my one good ear disappeared overnight, retuning a month later for a few days before disappearing again and taking my already damaged (Tinnitus and high frequency total loss) with it.

I'm currently profoundly deaf with no prognosis.

Tried everything my GP and Dr.Google suggest, but no joy.

Would a course of leeches do the trick? :(
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I used to get terrible itching in my ears, doctor told me to use warm salt water a couple of times a day to bathe them. Not easy trying to pour salt water into my ears so the local chemist suggested Sterimar Isotonic Nasal Hygiene Nasal Spray. Worked a treat and i have only had to use one tin in 15 months.
 
The only time Ive ever had something like what you are having I had to have my ears syringed for excessive wax build up. Very unpleasant and I was exceedingly grateful when the nurse restored my hearing.
 
Has one thought about a trim?

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Sounds like the Dr or nurse needs to have a look and see if you need your ears syringed.

I hated the experience.

You could also try some stuff for swimmers ear.

Hopefully you get it sorted soon :Y
 
Lazarus said:
@Channel Hopper

No! Music and Woodwork (Oddly enough) are the very least of my talents.
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The reason for asking is down to the size of the ear canals. People with perfect pitch, or with a talent for picking up an instument and learning intuitively (as opposed to continuous tutoring) often have slightly smaller ear canals, sometjmes with additional bends in them, which can become infected, blocked or close up as they age.
 
Chris1979 said:
Sounds like the Dr or nurse needs to have a look and see if you need your ears syringed.

I hated the experience.

You could also try some stuff for swimmers ear.

Hopefully you get it sorted soon :Y
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GP won't sanction syringing until the persistent infections have gone, to minimise the risk of further damage.

It's possible, but not proven, (Too much effusion for the torch to see through) that the second ear to succumb has a perforation, which also means exercising caution before syringing.

Very isolating, being unable to hear clearly. And SWMBO tuts when I turn the Telly Audio way up beyond 11 :rolleyes:
 
Ah, your first post didnt mention infection (though the thread title does).

Anyone else in the household with something similar ?
 
Channel Hopper said:
Ah, your first post didnt mention infection (though the thread title does).

Anyone else in the household with something similar ?
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No. Quack insists that such things are (almost) invariably not infectious or contagious and the mystery of contracting them is purely individual.

Time to give the Cat Poo a whirl :-wow
 
Changing pillows (the internals) would be my only advice from experience.
 
I'm with you there. Yuk.
 
I had intermittent hearing problems when I was a child. When it became problematic, I was referred to an Ear, Nose and Throat specialist, who had a good visual probe inside my ears, but didn't find anything untoward.

He then used an audio oscillator to send various tones at increasing strengths to a massive, heavy pair of headphones clamped to my ears (no noise-cancelling devices then, this was in the 40's) , to ascertain at what level I was able to hear the tones.

I can't remember the outcome of this examination, but It was significant enough for me to remember it clearly now. I did have an operation at about that time for adenoid removal, so perhaps they were affecting my hearing.

Since then, the usual problem of blocked ears, for which I had my GP's nurse syringe them out a couple of times, which incidentally I didn't find at all unpleasant.
 
Got some you-can't-bend-it jollop on Prescription ......... Otosporin.

Ten days of that, then in for a sluicing.
 
Right now I'd happily take an ear infection over the pain of lower-back slipped disc, at least then I'd be able to walk... :(
 
Llew said:
I had intermittent hearing problems when I was a child. When it became problematic, I was referred to an Ear, Nose and Throat specialist, who had a good visual probe inside my ears, but didn't find anything untoward.

He then used an audio oscillator to send various tones at increasing strengths to a massive, heavy pair of headphones clamped to my ears (no noise-cancelling devices then, this was in the 40's) , to ascertain at what level I was able to hear the tones.

I can't remember the outcome of this examination, but It was significant enough for me to remember it clearly now. I did have an operation at about that time for adenoid removal, so perhaps they were affecting my hearing.

Since then, the usual problem of blocked ears, for which I had my GP's nurse syringe them out a couple of times, which incidentally I didn't find at all unpleasant.
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I well remember that Liew I spent a lot of my first year in hospital.I had a mastoid operation Thus I have been almost deaf in my left ear ever since.I well remember going to the clinic for the tests the technician. Don't know what they called them then.Turned the knob until I could hear the tone.
 
pontiend said:
I well remember that Liew I spent a lot of my first year in hospital.I had a mastoid operation Thus I have been almost deaf in my left ear ever since.I well remember going to the clinic for the tests the technician. Don't know what they called them then.Turned the knob until I could hear the tone.
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Tone (pure), and speech audiometry.

Audiology calibration, I used to set up the equipment, but it was over 30 years ago.
 
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