Ear Drums

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Ruptured my ear drum a couple of days ago and I am now back on top of things. Getting the turns out now. But for the ones that can't wait three days, oh well too bad. No loss.

Took the kids swimming one morning after night shift and got some water trapped in the ear canal and tried to get it out with a cotton bud. Whoops - tore a wee rip in the ear drum and its all she wrote. Pain was mild, but when completely deaf in the left ear, and lost all sense of up and down and what straight was for a while.

Still am pretty much deaf in the left ear but the pain is gone and the vertigo is gone.

The worst thing now is the ringing in the ear. So over it. Hearing is meant to be back to normal in about another 5 - 6 days. Lets hope so.

Good excuse not to hear the wife for duties. lol
 
I read in big game hunter Jim Corbett's autobiog that during a man-eating tiger hunt in the 1930's somebody close behind him fired their rifle over his shoulder and the shock wave ruptured his ear drum.
Not only did it make him temporarily deaf in that ear, but an abscess formed deep inside it and he was in agony for weeks until it burst, prompting him to remark how wonderful it was to be free of pain at last.
I think his hearing returned fine.
 
No sweat on the turns, buddy. Get yourself back up to snuff.
 
Hi guys, getting through turns slowly sorry.

The pain and balance is fine now, the ringing in the ear is almost overwhelming. Imagine you have gone to a rock concert and had your head up to the speakers for the whole 2-3 hours. Times that by ten and thats a fairly good way to think about this ringing.
 
I live next door to a barking Alsatian 25 years ago, yap yap yap yap, that's when I first got tinnitus (ringing in the ears) and have had it nonstop ever since. Some days are better than others but overall I've got used to it.
 
PoorOldSpike said:
I live next door to a barking Alsatian 25 years ago, yap yap yap yap, that's when I first got tinnitus (ringing in the ears) and have had it nonstop ever since. Some days are better than others but overall I've got used to it.
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That must be bloody awful mate......How do you put up with it....must be pain control ?
 
Hedgehog said:
That must be bloody awful mate......How do you put up with it....must be pain control ?
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No mate no pain at all, just a constant high-pitched whistling hiss like escaping steam, it's not loud and I can live with it just like Bogart did on the African Queen.
(Guilty confession- I tried to kill the dog to shut it up by mixing a bottle of aspirin into a tin of dog food and emptying it over the fence; dunno if the dog ate it but it didn't seem to do it any harm.
I don't think the aspirins were strong enough because when I looked at the label afterwards I found I'd bought "Childrens Aspirins, Strawberry Flavour" by mistake.
I would have tried again but I transferred out to a new flat soon after)
 
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