Ear Infection

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Two days before the end of my holiday(last Friday)i got a blocked left ear and i put it down to swimming.I got home Sunday and to managed to get a doctors appointment for Monday who confirmed it was an ear infection and prescribed antibiotics.
Since then it's got a lot worse with the ear canal narrowing and a jaw ache.Anyone else had this?
How long before the antibiotics start working because it's pretty darn painful?

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I used to get this all the time

especially after a holiday

Initially the ear would always get worse but after a few days it started to get better

main thing is that NOTHING gets put into your ear
not matter how it itches or hurts

That was always my problem - it itched so badly, especially when getting better, that I always wanted to scratch it
and HAD to stop myself - which was very hard to do

Best wishes for the ear
if it is not better when you have only a day left then get back to the doctor urgently - you may need a longer course

 

[dicko]

Go straight back to your doctor asap.
Yes I have had that. Took matters into my own hands with ear wax remover, then antibiotics, which led to a hospital outpatient referral and an day patient operation to remove a cyst and now have two hearing aids ( I’m 78). Please try and get an early appointment, you will be just fine.

 

[Dave7]

I have to concur with dicko. A long time ago when my son had ear ache the Doc said blah blah blah and prescribed antibiotics.
It got no better so we went private and were told to get him hospital immediately. Sadly too late, he lost his hearing for good in that ear.
I hope yours gets better quickly but don't hang around hoping.

 

[Drago]

Had this a couple of years ago. Had to play a gig deaf in one ear, in pain and feeling distinctly queasy and wobbly, not the most enjoyable experience.

Antibiotics perked it up pretty quickly, was starting to feel better well within 48hrs. If you're going the wrong way I'd see if theres a walk in ENT dept at your local hossy.

Best of luck.

 

[presta]

i put it down to swimming

Do you do a lot of it?

If so, Google Swimmer's Ear, and Surfer's Ear. (If it's surfer's ear like mine, you need surgery, not antibiotics.)

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Do you do a lot of it?

If so, Google Swimmer's Ear, and Surfer's Ear. (If it's surfer's ear like mine, you need surgery, not antibiotics.)

Thanks @presta yes i had Googled swimmers ear before.
Only time i swim is when I go on holiday both in the pool and the sea.This was in Greece.

 

[presta]

Thanks @presta yes i had Googled swimmers ear before.
Only time i swim is when I go on holiday both in the pool and the sea. This was in Greece.

I used to swim 5 days a week. Mine wasn't painful, but it could get very smelly. I had surgery eventually because it became a chore going to the hospital every few months to have the gunge hoovered out, and then quit swimming.

 

[Dave7]

Thanks @presta
Only time i swim is when I go on holiday both in the pool and the sea.This was in Greece.

You were swimming in grease .....no wonder you have a problem

 

[derrick]

Two days before the end of my holiday(last Friday)i got a blocked left ear and i put it down to swimming.I got home Sunday and to managed to get a doctors appointment for Monday who confirmed it was an ear infection and prescribed antibiotics.
Since then it's got a lot worse with the ear canal narrowing and a jaw ache.Anyone else had this?
How long before the antibiotics start working because it's pretty darn painful?

Had a similar thing a couple of weeks back, just home from hols, did a lot of swimming, went to the doctors, turns out I was seen by a nurse, who gave me a spray for my ear, went back to doctors a week later as it had got no better, this time was seen by a doctor who said I had a perferated ear drum,apparently 6 weeks to heal. I can't play my saxaphones for 6 weeks,

 

[king of the mole hills]

Yep had it few weeks ago swimmer's ear you need them drops to attack the fungus

 

[dicko]

Had this a couple of years ago. Had to play a gig deaf in one ear, in pain and feeling distinctly queasy and wobbly, not the most enjoyable experience.

Antibiotics perked it up pretty quickly, was starting to feel better well within 48hrs. If you're going the wrong way I'd see if theres a walk in ENT dept at your local hossy.

Best of luck.

You might be lucky going to ENT without a referral best to let your Dr refer you through. ENT is a working ward in our hospital it has schedules to keep to best try A&E but again they are stretched to the limit with folks too lazy to register for their own GP.

 

[Drago]

Our local hossy has a satellite ENT walk in clinic, essentially an A&E for that sort of thing.

Obviously, if his local hossy doesnt have a walk in clinic then he shouldn't just pitch up and walk in. I pressures Mr Scrutinizer knew the difference (im sure he does.)

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

I was prescribed a weeks supply of Amoxicillan so if I'm not any better when they start to run out I'll be straight over the quacks.
Thanks for all your helpful comments.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I used to take my daughter swimming every week

I had blocked and itchy ears - and sometime painful - very often
seldom needed anti-biotics

but when I went on holiday it was pretty much normal to have one blocked ear after the first week and both by the end of the 2 weeks

Nowadays I very seldom get them - but if I do the main thing is to NOT scratch them or put anything into them
if I do that they normally clear up