So for the last 3 weeks I've had this ear infection. It started off just being a little bit painful. I tried a few different homeopathic remedies (including putting whiskey in my ear to absorb the "goop.")
Since the ear infection started coming on after a bad cold, so I knew that it was due to some sinus-fun.
Needless to say, the whiskey or the garlic oil or the immunity boosters or the steam didn't help and it got WAY worse. The kinda "WAY worse" when all you can do is curl up in a ball rocking back and forth screaming and crying. Good times. I finally couldn't take the pain any more and went to Urgent Care. They prescribed something meaningless and told be to come back in about a week if it didn't help. So I came back the next week. Then they prescribed more things that were just as meaningless. Now it's been 3 weeks, and there is no WAY I'm going back to Urgent Care again! So I'm going back Au Naturale. I've got my mullein eardrops, and I'm taking lots of Echinacea Goldenseal. Wish me luck!
I just want to be able to hear again. Oh, did I mention I can't hear in my right ear at all? And when I talk it sounds to me like I'm talking underwater. I've become a master at the "smile and nod" technique these last few weeks, especially around other parents at my kid's school. I mean is it really worth asking them to repeat what they just said in my "good ear?"
Nah.
Nov 8, 2006
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