Ouch my ear bloody hurts!
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Get this bit out the way first:
Googling basically yields 'this is very serious go to your doctor' so with that in mind I'm going to try and get an appointment tomorrow to get checked out.
Basically woke up Sunday morning with excrutiating shooting pains going through my right ear. It's not blocked, it's not red/inflamed, my hearing isn't affected.
Lifting some rubbish which needed running to the dump made me tense my neck muscles which really hurt my ear (?!). Fearing that it might be blocked I tried some of that Otrex stuff last night but it's done nothing (I don't think my ear is blocked in any way) and my ears look very clean (apparently!)
What could it be? I still have random shooting pains this morning at work, my ear is also really sensitive to touch.
Googling basically yields 'this is very serious go to your doctor' so with that in mind I'm going to try and get an appointment tomorrow to get checked out.
Basically woke up Sunday morning with excrutiating shooting pains going through my right ear. It's not blocked, it's not red/inflamed, my hearing isn't affected.
Lifting some rubbish which needed running to the dump made me tense my neck muscles which really hurt my ear (?!). Fearing that it might be blocked I tried some of that Otrex stuff last night but it's done nothing (I don't think my ear is blocked in any way) and my ears look very clean (apparently!)
What could it be? I still have random shooting pains this morning at work, my ear is also really sensitive to touch.
Ignored my own advice and after the pain subsided yesterday I decided not to go to the doctors.
Now the pain is back twice as bad. Constant throbbing which is aggravated by moving my jaw or tensing my neck.
Thinking it might just have been the way I slept on it I've foolishly driven to work only for the pain to get worse. Struggling to sit here now and can't find any painkillers. Damnit.
I haven't used in-ear earphones for a while either, so it wouldn't be from that. The only thing I've changed is that I used to always have showers in the morning, which have now been replaced with having a bath because our new place hasn't got a shower curtain yet. I'm wondering if submerging my head underwater has f*cked my ear up.
Now the pain is back twice as bad. Constant throbbing which is aggravated by moving my jaw or tensing my neck.
Thinking it might just have been the way I slept on it I've foolishly driven to work only for the pain to get worse. Struggling to sit here now and can't find any painkillers. Damnit.
I haven't used in-ear earphones for a while either, so it wouldn't be from that. The only thing I've changed is that I used to always have showers in the morning, which have now been replaced with having a bath because our new place hasn't got a shower curtain yet. I'm wondering if submerging my head underwater has f*cked my ear up.
Relax everyone!
I'm all good.
It's an 'inner ear infection' (10 points and a cookie to the first one who suggested that)
Got anti-biotics for 1 week (Amoxycilin). Feel a bit sick everytime I take one though. If it actually makes me physically sick I pressume that I stop taking them?
Doctor was absolutely gobsmacked when I told him I had never smoked!
I'm all good.
It's an 'inner ear infection' (10 points and a cookie to the first one who suggested that)
Got anti-biotics for 1 week (Amoxycilin). Feel a bit sick everytime I take one though. If it actually makes me physically sick I pressume that I stop taking them?
Doctor was absolutely gobsmacked when I told him I had never smoked!
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