Hey guys, for the past month and a half I've had something go wrong with my ears, my right one in particular. I highly doubt it's an ear infection seeing as how I was on antibiotics and they didn't do anything. When it first started I would get very dizzy and my ears would be in pain with fluid build up in them. The dizziness has pretty much gone away and the ear pain comes and goes with the fluid buildup and now lately if I'm in a silent area I can hear a very faint hissing in my ears as well. If I touch my ears they become pretty painful. I don't think I've noticed any sort of hearing loss though. What could this be? I've seen a few doctors over this and they don't know anything. I'm trying to get an appt with a specialist.
2006-09-09 04:31:12 · 5 answers · asked by kyle_s077 1 in Health ➔ Other - Health
It could still be an infection. Go to a specialist (ENT).
2006-09-09 04:33:17 · answer #1 · answered by Rjmail 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By all means see an otolaryngologist. You probably have a chronic middle ear infection, most likely by a resistant form of staphylococcus aureus, which is why the antibiotic did not help. You may need a tube in the eardrum to permit the area to dry out. (Not recommended much any more.)
The dizziness is probably caused by a build-up of fluid in the cochlea, due to the pressure build-up in the middle ear.
The specialist will give you a baseline hearing test and then retest your hearing after whatever procedure he does. You probably have some hearing loss, and it may be permanent if the cochlea was damaged by the pressure.
2006-09-09 04:39:25 · answer #2 · answered by thylawyer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you hear ringing in your ears, it could be an ear disease called tinnitus...it causes hearing loss over time. Definitely talk to an ear specialist, though.
Also, do you spend a lot of time in the water? That could be causing the problem as well. Make sure that when you get out of the water, even a shower, you take a cloth or q-tip and turn your head both ways to get excess water out that could be causing the irritation.
Further still...loss of equilibrium, aka "dizziness," is an indicator of possible hearing loss.
2006-09-09 04:35:30 · answer #3 · answered by nikortreat 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it really is a 50/50 probability. I listen that ringing, too. i'd be going deaf, because I used to play my drums with none protective ear equipment. After a lengthy time period I each and every each and every now and then began to take heed to this ringing in my ear. I took off my ear muffles so i ought to listen how my drums sounded more beneficial positive and the ringing were given somewhat louder at circumstances. My kinfolk warned me to apply the muffles, so i did. each and every each and every now and then, I lose listening to in my precise ear. also, maximum of this happens even as im observing my previous television, so it would nicely be a 50/50 probability. you'll nicely be going deaf, or it would nicely be something else. merely see a doctor I understand you. Im afraid to inform every person, yet when i initiate dropping my listening to for a lengthy time period, i'd pass see a doctor.
2016-10-15 23:43:41 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
see a dr.
2006-09-09 04:33:06 · answer #5 · answered by don;t know 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋