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Anonymous
Hello /fit/.

I ruptured not one, but BOTH fucking eardrums yesterday. Is there anything I can do to help ease the pain? Because I consider myself fairly pain tolerant, but this hurts like a son of a bitch.
>> Sponge !!5qxfxHYSQxJ
What?
>> Anonymous
Emergency room you fucking idiot.
>> Anonymous
Holy fuck! What are you fucking doing writing shit here like a fucking idiot for?

Go to the emergency room straight away, lest you permanently damage your hearing.
>> Anonymous
How can you be that stupid?
>> Anonymous
I thought they heal on their own after a few months.

Only thing I can tell you is get some earmuffs or noise cancelling headphone thingies to block out all sound.
>> Anonymous
>>91262
Idiot.

Go to the hospital, they stick little plates into your ears, then they will heal back.

you are one big idiot.
>> Anonymous
god, follow anon's advice. go to the hospital, dumdum
>> Anonymous
Op here.

I'VE BEEN THE THE FUCKING HOSPITAL YOU MORONS

Jesus, do you think I'm that stupid?

I'd just like some advice on how to ease the pain, since they didn't give me painkillers, just antibiotics.
>> Anonymous
Buy some weed. Smoke it. Rent some movies. Watch them. While high.
>> Anonymous
Ibuprofen aka Motrin
>> Anonymous
>>91289
aspirin and or paracetamol.
>> Anonymous
>>91289
>>I'VE BEEN THE THE FUCKING HOSPITAL YOU MORONS
>>Jesus, do you think I'm that stupid?
You'd be surprised what people trust 4chan with over doctors.
>> Anonymous
Go back and say you can't sleep due to pain.

They give you Codeine with tylenol. Say you still cant sleep.

You win 1 bottle of vicodin.
>> Anonymous
>>91245
no pain pills? sucks for you. take extra strength tylenol around the clock along with 800mg of ibuprofen 3x a day . make sure you take the ibuprofen with meals (otherwise can cause gastritis). that should help some.
>> Anonymous
>>91316

Hmm...alright, I'll try that. Thanks.
>> Anonymous
How the fuck did you come to injure yourself so badly?

Man, my ears hurt just thinking about that.
>> Anonymous
>>91709

Apparently I had an underlying ear infection for a while, caused from bathing. (In before fag, I'm a woman.) I know that I need to use earplugs from now on, but I didn't really think about it at the time. The infection progressed, and the pus pushed against my eardrums and stretched them. I went water-skiing and fell off and slapped the water with my head so hard that my ears rung afterwards, which finally ruptured both of them.

Went to the doctor's, got some eardrops and antibiotics.
>> Anonymous
>>91768

(Continued from there)

I'd like to think I have a high threshold for pain for a female, but this pain is so terrible I want to curl up and bawww, but somehow I can't bring myself to cry. The pain is so sharp it feels like someone's stabbing you in your ears with a nail over and over again.
Fuckkkk.
I WANT SOME DAMN MORPHINE! FUCK YOU DOCTORS AND YOUR ANTIBIOTICS SHIT

My nineteenth birthday is tomorrow, and the pain will probably be so bad I'll have to be in bed all day.
>> Anonymous
>>91789

Haha I have a story similar to yours. What the fuck is up with doctors and not giving a shit about ear patients. My left ear was nearly ripped off when I got beat up pretty bad by a group of punks. I went to the emergency room and they sowed that shit on without any anesthesia. Later it got infected and turned into a hematose, and they had to drain the blood manually, squeezing out the blood by hand. Without. any. pain killers. Same as you, I wanted to curl up in a ball and die, but I couldn't bring myself to do it cuz the doctor was hot. The ENT specialists all gathered around to watch, I guess because they never get to see any cool blood stuff, but none of those fuckers thought to prescribe any painkillers. Fuck, I had to buy like three 200 mg bottles of CVS ibuprofen, and was popping like 5 at time. Next time if I go to the E-room, I'm kicking somebody''s ass until I get some goddamn morphine. I'm not going thru that pain again.
>> Anonymous
get sum weed and LSD and PCP.
>> Anonymous
>>91768
if you REALLY want to concern the doc, say you're having jaw pain too. this implies spread of infection to the underlying bone (very serious issue). of course, he may then get scared enough to order a ct scan or refer you to an ENT doc.
>> Anonymous
>>91245

Just take drowsy cold medicine and go to sleep. If you take painkillers that numb the ears, chances are you will feel disorientated or even get vertigo because your ears also control your balance and co-ordination.
>> Anonymous
>>91822
i was always pissed at patients who asked me specifically for narcotics when i saw them in the ER. Understand, 80+ percent of ER visits are from medicaid/uninsured buttfucks on the lower end of the societal spectrum. they come in for bullshit reasons and feel entitled to world class treatment and expect to be 100% pain free 100% of the time. and that's when they're not bullshitting symptoms to try to score narcotics. i told one melodramatic fucknut, after a completely negative diagnostic workup, that i wasn't going to give him narcotics but to return if he developed symptoms again and i'll re-evaluate him. he said 'fuck this' , took out his IV by himself, and left before we could discharge him. i look up his electronic record the next day, and he apparently got shot downtown that same night in the leg and went to a different hospital. lol he was definitely put on some narcotics there..
>> Anonymous
>>91879
MD? In my /fit/?? Or RN?
>> Anonymous
>>91879

LOL he probably shot himself on purpose just to score some sweet drugs
>> Anonymous
>>91884
MD in residency
>> Anonymous
>>91888

Why oh why is a smart person on 4chon? We don't get folks like you 'round here.
>> Anonymous
>>91890
i actually vent online a lot, either here or on online games, and often get accused of trolling
>> Anonymous
It's sad so many people ask health related questions here instead of going to a doctor. Guess I should be glad I live in Canuckistan.
>> Anonymous
>>91871

I actually do have jaw pain, as well as head pain. I figured that was just normal for ruptured eardrums.
>> Anonymous
Yep, just as I thought.
I can't fucking go out today.
Screw you, ears.