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ear problem? Anonymous
hey /fit/,

this is my first time posting here. i probably need medfag help but i'll ask here either way.

anyways,

about a week ago i started having some trouble with my ear. at that time i had a pretty severe cold etc etc.

anyways, the symptoms i had are as follows:

at first i had very noticeable pain in my ear, kind of like airplane ear pain when you're coming down. (btw its only the left ear thats the problem)

after that, the pain went away, but i noticed i was hearing things out of pitch with my left ear, like bells and telephone rings and even music would be about a half step flat in my left ear.

that's still happening now. anyways, after that, i started to notice a very high pitched ring in my ear of moderate to low volume, and i started to notice that i was hearing at a MUCH lower volume in my left ear. and i was hearing things much less clearly as well.
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>> Anonymous
somethings are better to be left for the doctors. ear problem is one of those things
>> Anonymous
i mean i dont think i have an infection. it'd hurt more if i did, i think.
>> Anonymous
Sorry to tell you anon, but you might end up being stuck with this.

Lemme tell you my story. the same thing happened to me. I went to bed one night with a slight cold. Actually it was my first night at university. Woke up the next morning. 'Full' or 'blocked' ears. both of them.

2 and a half years later; still unresolved. it gives me earaches, headaches. Sinusitis developed too. My whole head - ears, nose, face - feels totally congested.

I went to a doctor. I think over two years i went to like 11 doctors. britfag here). I think i saw at various times 4 GPs, 5 hospital consultants, and 2 private doctors.

ENT medicine must be in need of some serious enhancement because almost all of them gave me a different diagnosis. Two of them gave me a completely different daignosis within less than 15 hours. Roughly divided, 6 told me there was indeed something wrong with me, 5 said i was making it up and there was nothing wrong with me.
>> Anonymous
(contd)...

A number of them said it could be an infection. Obviously it isn't, because i havent even had a cold since 2005 (when it struck me), but these symptoms remain. But anyway, at three seperate times i went on antibiotics. Amoxycillin, doxycycline, erothromycin. noen did anything. I used several steroid decongestants over the bulk of the two and a half years. Nothing doing. When i told the last doctor i saw this (in September), he scoffed and said that if they didnt work, then i must be making it up. (some asshole doctor at supposedly one of the best NHS hospitals for ENT - The Royal Free).

Six months later - oh look at what's on the front page of the BBC News website - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7294244.stm

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anyway, i'm probably rambling. But yes, i have the same symptoms you do, in both ears. Blocked, my hearing is mow muddy, feels like it has extra bass. Feels like airplane pain. (OH BTW DON'T GO ON AN AIRPLANE LIKE THIS. If you're lucky, you'll only have extreme pain taking off and landing. If you're unlucky - because your eustachian tubes are blocked and can't equalise the pressure - your eardrums will burst.)
11 doctors and over 2 years later - nothing resolved, only worsened. And ive spent so much on medicines and private consultations.

So just keep this stuff in mind when you see your doctor about it.