W-WOT... Ear problem...Help!

[soc_monki]

good luck with that dude...get to an ENT ASAP! making you wait a month + is bullshit...theyre toying with your hearing, and once its damaged it will NEVER come back (as Kannibul knows). ive only had one ear infection in my life...it was a result of strep throat. it traveled from my throat into the tubes and up into my inner ear. REALLY screwed me up for a while, i had no balance and i had pain in my ears, along with not really being able to eat thanks to my throat being so swollen. i thought it was a simple cold...then it mushroomed and i went to the doctor as quick as i could, got antibiotics and got it cleared up. i still had balance problems for a little while after.

your ears are not something to toy with...get them to see you soon!

 

[ratter]

Make sure the doctor either removes it or confirm that it's not there (fell out) - that was what caused all my problems. I had a tube in my ear for 13 years, it got infected, festered, I'd take anti-biotics, it'd calm down, infection would resume, etc. After a few years, I ended up with a Cholesteatoma ("skin ball" tumor) that as it grew it would eat up bone.

My mom trivialized the amount of pain I was going through - by the time I saw a real ENT, he said I had so much scaring on my eardrum that it must have ruptured at least 5 times, and, the tube was still in there. He bitched her out, since he was the one that put it in all those years ago, and there must have been a miscommunication on if/when there was a follow-up visit to remove it...

Anyhow, he did surgery to remove it, after doing an exploratory a week prior. 12 years later, I'm in the OR again for the same proceedure, minus the mastoidectomy that I needed the first time

Both times, they nearly cut my ear off completely on the outside - starting at the top, and going right around to the bottom along the backside.

The second time, is when I got the artificial bones put in.

Thanks - that is good to know. As of a few weeks ago the tubes were still in (it's been 6 mo). She gets checked out pretty regularly and has a follow up at the ENT later this month. BUT she has had two ear infections recently, even with the tubes in. So I want them to check things out very thoroughly. I haven't yet asked if they plan to remove them or just keep checking until they fall out.

 

[SQUAREHEAD]

Thanx a lot guys!!
It's weird...
We're such a close community on here even tho many of us have never met. I appreciate all your input!!

Keith