"Yeasty Cock-Slimmer" wrote in message
news:c6di40lfq5vv41p7qfhpnu8p0rre6d96ba@rdmzrnewst xt.nz...
On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 20:15:58 +0000, Yeasty Cock-Slimmer
wrote:
[snip]

Thanks to everyone who responded, both publically and privately.

It's 2.20 in the AM and this marks the *at least two days* point. The
ringing is now so bad I'm finding it hard to hold conversation with
someone else. Anyone, please, will this go away? Have you had
something like this and have good hearing now?

I know I joke about on RAO, but I am not joking about this. Email me
(if you don't have my email address, say something and I'll email you
with my address). Please let me know if you've ever had something like
this happen to you and what the outcome was.

g

Graham,
You should see an ENT specialist. It's too critical to leave to a G.P.
Have your sedimentation rate checked. If you are being treated for an ear
infection, various antibiotics are more or less toxic to the auditory nerve.
Erythromycin and some other broad spectrum antibiotics will cause (usually)
temporary hearing loss. Penicillin is the least toxic, but doesn't hit all
the organisms.

It is encouraging that your eardrum is red, since an acute infection is
easier to treat than other things.

As a child, I had repeated acute chronic ear infections, requiring
aspiration of fluid, and I was on antibiotics for months at a time.
Nevertheless, my hearing is quite acute.