05-28-2004, 10:37 PM
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Originally posted by Holly
If a hospital is your only option until Monday, then I would. But if you have those "doc in a box" places near you that are open on Saturdays, I'd do that instead. Your hospital may be different than the ones here, but if I went to the ER right now, I'd probably still be there past the time it would take me to go to sleep, get up, and go to the walk-in place first thing in the morning.
I used to work with ears, mouths, throats, etc. The pain in your ear is probably pressure or fluid trapped in your middle ear. If your tonsil is swollen, your eustachian tube can't open and let your middle ear equalize. Plus, your middle ear is supposed to be a hollow, air filled space. When fluid hangs around in there, bacteria gets in and causes a nasty infection. It's easy for the bacteria from your throat to travel up your eustachian tube and get in there, esp if you're blowing your nose.
The doctor will probably need to culture you and see exactly what kind of bacteria it is, to prescribe you the right medicine. The one you've been taking, may not work for your ear infection at all.
Probably the only thing will make it feel better tonight is if your eardrum ruptures and eases some of the pressure.
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Thanks a ton for the info , very informative, it was making me feel a bit better until the last line, now you got me scared. Yikes! |
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