God damn this shit sucks. Got a ruptured ear drum. Bleeding from my ear, can't hear out of one side of my head. Fuck it is aggrivating. Been this way over a week. Played 4 shows last week like this. Ironically, it actually hurts less while I am playing, can't figure that one out. With my unusually high pain threshold and my belief that suffering builds character and that pain is merely weakness leaving the body, you would figure this wouldn't bug me, but damn it is getting annoying. Today it started randomly spasming and it is like getting some kind of crazy electrical current from my ear through my jaw, down my neck and into my back. Fuck it is not fun...
that sucks. How did you do that?
I honestly don't know, I am thinking maybe it started as an ear infextion and my attempts to remedy it caused the rupture. Have had wax build up issues for years, my cerumen glands are just over active I guess. I use Q-Tips daily and though I am very careful not to pack the wax up in there, it seems occasionally I do. I had what felt like swimmers ear, did the drop and irrigation thing and it only made it worse. I am sort of a dumbass when it comes to medical issues, I tend to try and be my own doctor more often than I should. This time I think it didn't work out so well.
Like that time when I was a kid and had to give myself stitches so I wouldn't get in trouble for fighting. The stitches all ripped out as soon as I stood up, hurt worse than when I put them in (which actually hurt worse than the initial injury) and I ended up having to go to the ER and let the real doctor stitch me right. Still have the scar on my thigh from that.
spaivxx — Mar 05, 2009God damn this shit sucks. Got a ruptured ear drum. Bleeding from my ear, can't hear out of one side of my head. Fuck it is aggrivating. Been this way over a week. Played 4 shows last week like this. Ironically, it actually hurts less while I am playing, can't figure that one out. With my unusually high pain threshold and my belief that suffering builds character and that pain is merely weakness leaving the body, you would figure this wouldn't bug me, but damn it is getting annoying. Today it started randomly spasming and it is like getting some kind of crazy electrical current from my ear through my jaw, down my neck and into my back. Fuck it is not fun...
oh man ive done that..did you go to the doctor? keep it dry. the real annoying part is the healing time.. forever!!!
I've had ear issues since I was a kid. The first thing a doctor would tell you is not to use Q-tips. Period.
Damn, fuck that. First thing I would have thought you should do is keep the volume down while it heals otherwise you might fuck it up permanently.
Good luck with it.
Youch! :o Remember, the only things you're supposed to put into your ears are your elbows. ;)
his is kinda funny, and kinda not of course...
My left ear drum is perforated and can only be fixed through surgery.
I don't know how they fix that shit, I guess they burn it and let the scar tissue fill in the hole or something.
It's been like that for 15 years or so now. It really messes with the pressure in your head... You always stay equalized with atmospheric pressure. That kinda helped when I was doing the whole Submarine thing or when I fly on Airplanes.
Strangest thing was it wasn't until 2 years ago that the docs actually found out my ear drum had a big hole in it. They had done hearing tests every year to make sure my hearing wasn't degrading... Wasn't getting any better, not getting any worse. So they used this funky headphone thing that transfers the frequency of the hearing test patterns directly to the internal bones in your ear that connect to the aural nerves. And surprise, I had zero hearing loss. So as soon as they fix the hole I'll be good to go again.
I don't really know if I WANT it fixed though... I've lived with it for so long it's like this condition is a part of who I am. I figure it's similar to giving a blind man the ability to see again after being blind for 20 years. They would be all fucked up...
I may do it some day... But for now, I'm cool with it. I just have to plug my ear real good when I'm swimming :) Hah!
Go to an ear nose and throat doctor amigo, don't fuck with this on your own. Your hearing is too precious to let it be gone from lack of medical inattention.
My left ear drum is perforated and can only be fixed through surgery.
Not surprised. Thats the ear that was pointed at your Marshall stack at WHStock I! :o ;D
spaivxx — Mar 05, 2009Like that time when I was a kid and had to give myself stitches so I wouldn't get in trouble for fighting. The stitches all ripped out as soon as I stood up, hurt worse than when I put them in (which actually hurt worse than the initial injury) and I ended up having to go to the ER and let the real doctor stitch me right.
Now that's some fucked up shit right there.