Yes, I am seeing a doctor, yes, I have medicine, and yes, I have a follow-up appointment.
It started a week ago Monday. I tried the peroxide route, but it still hurt. I think the stress of it hurting is making my hand go numb…I’ve noticed my hand gets a little wonky when my ear is hurting.
I have to put these drops in four times a day, and it’s not getting better. Tomorrow will have been a week. I see the doctor again on Thursday.
So, I’m feeling grouchy and pouty and ouchy. And too damn old for an ear infection!
Feh. I’m in my forties and still get them occasionally. My GP says I’m just one of those people prone to them. I could, I suppose, have surgery but have avoided it.
I have an ear infection too! That was exactly my reaction, as well - “who the hell gets ear infections at age 31?” OMG. It is excruciating. Today is the last day of my course of antibiotics, and it’s definitely better, but I really don’t feel like it’s all the way healed. I’m a little concerned.
I had bad ear infections in both my ears that put me out of work for a week. I’ve never missed a whole week of work due to any illness. Soooo much pain. I don’t think my boss believed a) a grown up could get and ear infection and b) that it could require serious pain medication.
Coincidentally, my sister 800 miles away was out the very same week for the very same reason.
The aliens are coming for the adults. And they’re boring into our brains via our ear canals.
I finally got my tonsils out - at 32 years old! - because they had gone to the dark side and were giving me multiple ear infections a year. Didn’t help that they were also cryptic.
Cryptic tonsils can be popped just like zits! Except the white stuff that comes out smells baaaaaaad.
I’m forty, I had it a couple of years ago. Man-it-hurt-so-much. I called the doctor, said this hurts so much I’m not functioning properly. She said: “We don’t give antibiotics anymore for this kind of stuff, because it will pass in a week anyways.” I went: “Ah… b’well… that’s… that’s actually kinda wise.”
I thought tots got them because their eustachian (sp?) tubes were too short to drain properly when they got the sniffles.
The only thing I can think of is I was wearing headphones for a few hours, watching TV, last Sunday. I was waiting for it to be time to wake up Ivylad to get our daughter from the airport, and he was sleeping, so I had the headphones watching TV so I wouldn’t disturb him. The next day, my ear hurt.
My sister, a nurse, said Motrin and either an ice pack or moist heat. I did find the moist heat helped, so hopefully the doctor will give me something stronger than cortisone drops when I see her on Thursday.
Typo Knig had one a couple years back (mid-40s at the time, I think). IIRC he got oral antibiotics and drops.
I have, once or twice, had a day or two where everything in that general area felt painful, but never “drive myself to the ER bad”. I distinctly remember fantasizing about having someone take a very, very fine drill bit and ventilating the ear drum. I decided this was a bad idea and fortunately things passed.
If it makes you feel any better, nearly every time I get a cold, it leads to an ear infection. I try to avoid unnecessary antibiotics, so most of the time I deal with them on my own, with the help of ibuprofen and moist heat. Sometimes, though, I’ll get one that is beyond excruciating, and I have no choice but to see a doctor. I also suffer from inner ear infections.
Ivylass, that sucks. Ear infections are one of the worst childhood illnesses I remember. Hope you kick yours soon.
phouka, just curious. I was a teen when I had mine out, and the surgery was done with a local anesthetic. I was told that a local was safer for an older patient. Did you have a general or a local anesthetic? I’ve not encountered another person whose tonsils were removed while they were awake.
