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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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I am on antibiotics for an ear infection but I seem to be getting worse? I have a headache and i am dizzy with the whole side of my face hurting. Please help me the fluid cracks in my ear every morning. Iam increasingly worried
Hi, A week and a half ago I went deaf in my left ear and then took earache. My doctors prescribed 500 mg of amoxycilin and these have not worked, I have been back to see my doctor today and he has given me Otomize and Clarithromycin to take for 14 days, I am still deaf in my left ear and the pain is now dull. I am due to go my honeymoon on sunday and im flying, the doctor has told me my hearing will come back in the next 4-6 weeks,the doctor has also told me I will experience pain when flying and has given me a decongestant spray, is there anything you can do to help?
I'm suffering from a really bad ear infection I'm on antibiotics an pain killers bt nothing seams to be working! My ear is sore to touch and I hv a green/yellow fluid coming out of it. Need any ideas to help ease the pain
I used to wear ear rings but one of the hole got infected some how and it grow into a big ball. This has gotten really painful at times but the doctors say it is a cosmetic issue and there is nothing that can be prescribed or done about it but surgery which I have to pay for. Is there any other treatment I can do as it is very very painful and I can not afford the approx £600 needed to remove it. Please help.
I think i have an Ear infection, its really painfull and sore to tough, red, and tender, also throbbing, and swollen. I missed the doctors this afternoon because they were only open half day today. I asked advice from the pharmisist, but she said that it will probably need medical attention. Please help.
I have recently had a really bad cold. When ever I get a cold I seem to have a lot of mucus which makes it really hard to hear. How does fluid in the sinuses block hearing? Could this be an infection?
Hi, my right ear is blocked and its really warm to the touch. I feel fine in my self no over symptoms to contend with just the annoying ear, i have had this for 5 days now and i have been using Otex ear drops thinking this was an ear wax problem. I now think this is more like an infection, is there anything i can take to help??
I am seventeen years old, I have had constant and recurrent ear infections in both ears for the last eleven years. My ears become blocked with thick sticky fluid which varies in colour from clear to dark brown - it oozes out overnight and often smells quite pungent. I loose hearing in both ears and they are painful to touch. I prevent all water from entering my ears by wearing silicone earplugs. The hearing loss is beginning to affect my ability to concentrate in college and I recently had to do a music exam with both ears completely blocked. The pain and oozing prevent me from sleeping (on bad days I take up to 2500mg of painkillers per day). When there is not pain there is constant itching. Recently I have started to hear a faint but constant whistling. I have had every drop, spray, and cream available (I have even been prescribed nasal cream to put in my ears). After having my ears syringed for the sixth time, I was referred to an ENT specialist who performed numerous 'Micro-Suck' treatments, but nothing can clear the infection for more that around eight days. I know that the infection is in the outer ear, but I'm not sure if there is anything in the inner ear, although a while ago it felt like my Eustachian tube was blocked. Is there anything else that I can do to either get rid of the ear infections all together, or reduce the impact that it has on my hearing?
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?
