WAAAYYYY OT: My right ear... [UPDATE]

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Good'ol Dr. Vodka to the rescue...
Works every time!!!

-RGK-

At 07:32 AM 9/18/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>I had my wife look at it last night.  She's an LPN studying to become an 
>RN.  Good to have one in house, ya know?  Anyway, she said there wasn't 
>really any wax packed in there that she could see, therefor an infection 
>of some kind, most likely related to my sinuses (and cold).  So, last 
>night before bed, I took a shot of vodka and 2 NyQuil caplets.  Woke up 
>this morning and it was about 15 minutes before I realized that it was 
>unclogged.  Huzzah!
>
>Thanks for all the helpful words, although I acted on non of them other 
>than to wait it out.  Personally, I thought it woul go on for a lot longer.
>
>Mike
>
>Aaron <aaroncarr@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>Your eustachian tube is gunked up. This is a device which connects your
>inner ear to your pharynx and acts to maintain the pressure of your
>inner ear equal to armospheric pressure. If it's blocked then you lose
>equilibrium and you get negative or positive pressure on your tympanic
>membrane (ear drum) which will screw your hearing and could possibly
>cause referred problems with balance.
>
>It's probably an infection you've got, upper respiratory viral thing,
>which ought to sort itself out in time. In fact, if it is viral there's
>absolutely nothing you can do but wait for your body's self defence
>mechanisms to kick in. But I would strongly advise you to go see your
>doc anyway - he can check whether your ear is inflamed (meaning the
>infection has moved into your inner ear or not) and may start
>antibiotics if He thinks it might not be viral.
>
>You could try decongestant stuff, like olobas oil or vicks or
>something, but I honestly don't think that will have much impact.
>
>Just have to put up and shut up I guess! :)
>
>Onelove
>
>Aaron
>
>On Wednesday, Sep 17, 2003, at 16:47 Europe/London, Mike Smith wrote:
>
> > I've had a bit of a cold lately (as my co-worker said: welcome to the
> > world of married with children) that I picked up from the youngest in
> > the house. Anyway, I took a shower yesterday and I don't know if it's
> > from the shower or all the nose blowing or a combination of both.
> > Really don't care how it happened actually, but my right ear is so
> > clogged that everything is muffled and my breathing (chewing, talking,
> > etc.) is amplified in my head. Driving me nuts. Feel like I've been
> > in front of a speaker at a Dead Kennedy's show. Anyone got a "fix"
> > for this or am I going to just have to let it run it's course and wait
> > till it clears?
> >
> > Mike
> >
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