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Consultation: Ear Infection
Dr Christian Jessen examines a patient suffering from something nasty in her ears, in this consultation from series one of Embarrassing Illnesses. After the results from the lab come back, it seems the patient has an infection more usually found elsewhere on the body!
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hi im 16, ive had constant ear infections since i was born, i go totally def in my left ear every so often, and my right ear is always very painful and keeps closing p, it recently had a perferated ear drum in that ear also, im always falling over, i have last week been refered to the hospital, although ive been on creams spary and antibiotics, wot can the hosptial possibly do, especially about the pain and defness? thanks
mt left ear is constantly itching right next to my ear drum. Ive had it syringed and they found an old peice of cotton bud in there but itchiness is still there, the itchiness seems to travel all over the ear and on my head just behind the ear. When the doctor checks it they must be finding wet fluid because they tell me to keep my ears dry all the time but I do. I do suffer from head to toe sweating when im sleeping every night and i dont know if this is where the wetness is coming from. It drives me insane and im constantly getting small scabs forming on the inner part of the ear probably from me scratching but I simply cannot ignore the itch. What could be the cause of this?
About a year ago i was struck down with very bad dizziness, weakness, fainting, slight vomiting at times and constant headaches. I visited the doctor 4times in 4weeks who the first time i saw him diagnosed me with vertigo syndrome and anxiety. he gave me SERC 8mg for the vertigo which never worked. After about 3months it started to fade out so i assumed i was ok.just over a week ago it all started again but worse this time. I have been sick only once so far but have a constant headache and servere dizziness which i have for about 15-20hours per day! I get a slight high pitched noise in 1 ear from time to time and i can also get some tunnel vision every now and then! sometimes i have panic attacks when this happens and would love any advise or help anyone can give me. thanks
Hi Emma, I went through and am still going through the same thing. Mine started as a horrific room spin and i lost part of my vision for 10mins, i went to the A&E and they sent me home, 3hours later i was back again and they 'diagnosed' me with vertigo and gave me stemital 5mg and told me it would last anywhere between 3weeks and 3months. 3months later it eased and i started to feel a bit better but 2weeks after that it came back worse than it was before. That was 4years ago. Since then i have had an MRI scan, balance and hearing tests and been given all types of different medication. Because dizziness is usually an ear problem i was refered to an ENT specialist who said that there was nothing physical he could see that was wrong, he might as well have just told me to bugger off! One doctor contradicts another, one specialist contradicts another and its a never ending circle...excuse the pun. I have tried stemital (which i was told that if you take for too long it can cause the symptoms you are trying to avoid) Cinnerazine (which had no effect) and Serc (which i have been taking for almost 2years and some days they work some days they dont). I came to the embarrassing bodies website to see if there was anyone that could help me but i found your post. I have joined alot of menieres disease groups on facebook, even thought i do not have menieres the sypmtoms and problems are the same, and got chatting to some people that have the disease and i have learnt that everyone handles medication differently, sometimes a low caffine, salt, tobacco and alcohol diet can help, and that its good to know that you are not alone. All i can say is that i am still searching for a doctor that actually cares about my wellbeing and that im only 24 and shouldnt be living like a hermit due to dizziness. Most of the day to day things people take for granted make me dizzy and it has become very depressing for me. Small things set the dizziness off and i have been unable to work for the last 4years. If you need to talk about anything or would like to compare notes then please feel free to contact me. Sorry i cant be more help to you. Gemma X
hello i guess im not the only one going through this horrible dizziness then it all happned to me jus after the birth of my daughter and ever since then got worse..i have been to numerouse doctors all telling me abouth the illness but actually never doing something about it apart from palming me off with tablets that most of them havnt really worked, even the tablets i am aon now still doesnt stop the dizzines completley and completly does my head in because like gemma has said even the smallest things set it off which is very annoying when your trying to do your day to day things aswell as handeling a baby aswell. its not fair and i wish some one would actually do something about this because i am sick of being some guienie pig. i havnt actually had a scan yet the doctors havnt even been bothred to follow that through yet. im jus a bit freaked out incase it isnt menires desise because i dont feel the doctors have done enough to follow this through..
hi gemma hi fran, im so happy im not the only 1 feeling this way as i thought i was going insane. I went for a brain scan yesturday and wont get the results for 2 weeks. my doctor has put me on 2 sets of anti depressents 1 of which i only started taking today, the other i have been taking for 4 weeks and dont seem to be working. i just recently went 3 whole days without any dizziness and thought i was getting back to normal but lastnight it started again. I dont know whether im coming or going half of the time. my doc said she thinks it may be high levels of anxiety and migrains but if this is the case why is my medication not working? i really wish there was something that can be done to take the dizziness away because to be fair it ruins your life. iv only been of work for 5weeks now but feel like ill never be able to work again if something isnt done soon. I really feel for you both and I just hope sooner rather then later something is done about it because we cant live our lives like this forever. emma (age 25)
my 80 yr old dizzy mum s not so dizzy now : )hi my mum suffers fron the exact same thing its really hard on her as she has had two hip replacements and is afraid she will fall over all the time and as you can imagin if she did it would cause a lot of damage she is on serc and stemetil lustral and diazapam the change in her since she has started takeing diazapam and lustral has been bril she used to suffer fron panic disorder and would get so upset she once held on to me for half an hour crying shakeing and she was so red had i not known what was wrong id prob av called an ambo she also takes protium not sure how this is spelt look all of these up there is hope no one of any age should just sit back and let this happen press your doc for answers dont take what they say and if this does not work go some where else best of luck the dizzy ness and worry is not so bad now only you know what your going threw
I HAVE EAR PAIN AND A STICKEY GLU TYPE OF GUNGE RAN OUT ,I ALSO HAVE A BAD PAIN AND A STIFF NECK RIGHT DOWN TO MY SHOULDER .I HAVE HAD A LOT OF STRESS IS THAT THE CAUSE . MANY THANKS WE THINK YOUR SHOW IS VERY GOOD .YOU MUST BE HELPING SO MANY PEOPLE .
I keep getting a lump inside my ear it has happend 3/4 times now it it there for like a week and its really sore then all of a sudden it will pop and loads of yellow stuff cums out i know not very nice,, does anyone know what it is??? ps dont want to go to my docs :)
i have had severe dizzness problems on and off over the past few years and never new what it was i then got it again more worse than i have ever had it i had to call an on call doctor out as i could not move as i lost my balance when i stood up and felt sick with the dizziness the doctor said i had an innerear infection they gave me tablets that were called prochlorperazine to help as they said it was called labrynthitus(may not be spelt right)but took them for 5 days and they did nothing to help i am still suffering and off work now as they said there is nothing they can do. Please help and give some advice if you can?thank you.
I've suffered with really bad ear infections for the some years. no one help until hearing aid specialist told me called "surfer ear" mean bone grower inside ear canal cause bad infections like boil. I am profoundly deaf and ear canal better with hearing aid on stopping swim at surf beach for too cold old now. I love swim at surf for many years.
I have alot of ear wax it makes it hard to hear people or my music, I even had to have my ears Syringed. Am I normal? And what can I do? Please help me.
I have had a severe ear infection in both ears for the past 30 years. I had to go to the hospital to have them hoovered for a week that was 30 years ago. The skin grows five times quicker than normal causing them to be cracked on the outer ear . the middle ear is always blocked with yellow smelly creamy puss. I have had creamsallmy lif but when I dont use them it jut flares up again. When I lie down i go deaf nd i am always breathng in holding my nose to try to clear the ai way into my ear.
what should i do a few yeahs afo i had to get an opraion done onmy ears to help me here but when i got it done it helped but then these things fell out but i feel something ratterling what shall i do it hurts
