Re: Eardrum Rupture

[Guest guest]

Hi all. Well, what a week. Sorry this is about me but I figure someone has

experience with eardrum rupture.

I got realllly sick on Thursday (a cold, but a very bad one), I don't know if

this is something the girls already had (timing doesn't seem right) or

something they'll both come down with on Christmas! And everybody knows Mommies

don't get sick days, so I haven't gotten any rest at all.

Our Jeep's gas tank rusted through and it's leaking gas, and a three-point

leak occured in our under-sink reverse osmosis water filtration unit, causing

water damage in the floor and the ceiling of the family room below. I CANNOT

have any leaks ever since our mold problems, they drive me insane with worry.

AND I'm supposed to be feeding 13 people here at Christmas and it can't be

moved to someone else's house. Sigh. I'm too sick for this!

Anyway, yesterday I could hear fluid accumulating in one of my ears and then

at 9:00pm the pain started. It was so intense and increasing so fast that I

never got a wink of sleep and by 1am, I had been lying there in agony and knew I

couldn't wait until morning or afternoon to see my doc. I told my husband I

was going and I went to urgent care -- the eardrum was really bulging according

to the doc. Started me on Augmentin and got some Vicodin for pain.

Well, within an hour of being home my ear made this amazing noise in my head,

sort of a cross between thunder and lightning, and I'm pretty sure the

eardrum ruptured. The vicodin had kicked in so I couldn't say whether or not the

pressure was relieved. But I was really expecting pus and blood and goo to come

out (sorry so gross) and all that came out was some yellowish-clear fluid and I

have a crust on my ear this morning. That WAS a rupture, wasn't it? My

hearing is completely distorted this morning, so I'm 99% sure yes. The feeling

in

that ear is completely different now, no pressure.

My question is does the ENT need to see this? It's my understanding they

don't do anything anyway, they let it heal on its own. I'll call my own doc when

they are open but I'm wondering what the " real " experts (all you parents) have

experienced if this happened to you or your kids. I don't really have time to

go to a useless doc appointment far away when I have sooooo much to do

already, plus a plumber to wait for. SIGH.

Thank you --

(mom to Kate, born 9/19/02, dairy intolerant; and , age 4-1/2,

GERD, dairy intolerant -- currently has polysaccharide antibody def, previously

had transient IgG, IgA, t-cell & other defs)

[Guest guest]

Hi all. Well, what a week. Sorry this is about me but I figure someone has

experience with eardrum rupture.

I got realllly sick on Thursday (a cold, but a very bad one), I don't know if

this is something the girls already had (timing doesn't seem right) or

something they'll both come down with on Christmas! And everybody knows Mommies

don't get sick days, so I haven't gotten any rest at all.

Our Jeep's gas tank rusted through and it's leaking gas, and a three-point

leak occured in our under-sink reverse osmosis water filtration unit, causing

water damage in the floor and the ceiling of the family room below. I CANNOT

have any leaks ever since our mold problems, they drive me insane with worry.

AND I'm supposed to be feeding 13 people here at Christmas and it can't be

moved to someone else's house. Sigh. I'm too sick for this!

Anyway, yesterday I could hear fluid accumulating in one of my ears and then

at 9:00pm the pain started. It was so intense and increasing so fast that I

never got a wink of sleep and by 1am, I had been lying there in agony and knew I

couldn't wait until morning or afternoon to see my doc. I told my husband I

was going and I went to urgent care -- the eardrum was really bulging according

to the doc. Started me on Augmentin and got some Vicodin for pain.

Well, within an hour of being home my ear made this amazing noise in my head,

sort of a cross between thunder and lightning, and I'm pretty sure the

eardrum ruptured. The vicodin had kicked in so I couldn't say whether or not the

pressure was relieved. But I was really expecting pus and blood and goo to come

out (sorry so gross) and all that came out was some yellowish-clear fluid and I

have a crust on my ear this morning. That WAS a rupture, wasn't it? My

hearing is completely distorted this morning, so I'm 99% sure yes. The feeling

in

that ear is completely different now, no pressure.

My question is does the ENT need to see this? It's my understanding they

don't do anything anyway, they let it heal on its own. I'll call my own doc when

they are open but I'm wondering what the " real " experts (all you parents) have

experienced if this happened to you or your kids. I don't really have time to

go to a useless doc appointment far away when I have sooooo much to do

already, plus a plumber to wait for. SIGH.

Thank you --

(mom to Kate, born 9/19/02, dairy intolerant; and , age 4-1/2,

GERD, dairy intolerant -- currently has polysaccharide antibody def, previously

had transient IgG, IgA, t-cell & other defs)

[Guest guest]

- that couldn't have felt good. Les (hubby, 35, CVID) had ruptured ear

drums off and on when he was between 5 and

8. Suffered some hearing loss and was in speech for most of elementary school.

His mom described the ruptures as blood

ending up all over his pillow and face, a trip to the ped in the morning and the

eardrum slowly healing (hole closed

up). What happened to you sounds like something (either the vicodin, antibiotic

or something else) relieved some type

of pressure on your eustachian tube and it finally opened up and allowed all the

inner ear puss that had been

accumulating to drain out finally. Although being yellow does still mean

infection our ENT always says that puss

draining is a good thing because it means the eustachian tubes are doing their

job.

Hopefully now the puss is draining out the pressure should be better and the

infection might start resolving. In my

humble mommy-opinion I would take some Advil or another anti-inflammatory to

help bring down the swelling in the ear

which would help keep the tube open and help with the pain.

Good luck and let us know how your dinner goes.

Ursula Holleman

mom to (10 yrs old) and Macey (8 yr. old with CVID, Diabetes Insipidus,

colonic inertia)

http://members.cox.net/maceyh

Immune Deficiency Foundation - Peer Contact for GA

http://www.primaryimmune.org

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