Ruptured Eardrum, ouch. Options

[Jen]

This story may be a little mixed up because of the pain killers I'm on right now.

So.. saturday night/sunday morning around 1 am I start to get an ear ache. So I figure it's a small ear infection.. so I take a couple of ibuprofen and go to bed thinking I can get some ear drops or something later on Sunday. I wake up at 3 in immense pain from my ear.. take more ibuprofen.. then go back to sleep. Wake up at 6.. worse pain than before. Take myself to the hospital. After about an hour and a half of waiting (saturday night in ER).. I'm in crazy amounts of pain. Blood is starting to gush out of my ear at this point.

Well ok I get in.. and the doctor says severe ear infection, large rupture in your eardrum. He sends me home with tons of medicine. I take some codone and pass out for the night.

Right now I have a patch over my ear to help stop the blood/puss from gushing out of my ear. It hurts BAD.. but the pain killers help me cope by taking me to a happy place. They are also making me sick too but thats a different story.

The tear is apparently so large that I may require surgery if it does not heal in 10 days.. which I'm hoping it will. This is worse case scenario. I went to my regular doctor today he seems to think it will.

I don't think I have ever been in this amount of pain. It is even worse than my kidney stones were. I'm pretty much totally deaf in my left ear. Ringing, buzzing.. sizzling. It's lovely. And when I like sneeze or something all this sh-t just comes gushing out.

Here's a pic of me at the present moment.


I colored out my face.. because.. as you can imagine.. I've been bed riddin for the past few days and I'm not a pleasant sight.

Just thought I'd share my experience.