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Burst eardrum
BillieTheBot
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My right ear developed an infection and I was prescribed a course of penicillin tablets. The infection was promptly cleared, but my hearing went from being muffled, now to being very quiet (but sharp). A second visit to the doctors concluded that the infection left a hole in the eardrum. The doctor said that it can take a month for it to grow back.
Does anyone else here have any experiences like this. I wear hearing aids, and I was told that it was alright to keep the one in the bad ear. Basically, has anyone here had eardrum perforations, and how long did it take to close up? Thanks. Its just very distressing having only half my hearing on the right-hand side.
Does anyone else here have any experiences like this. I wear hearing aids, and I was told that it was alright to keep the one in the bad ear. Basically, has anyone here had eardrum perforations, and how long did it take to close up? Thanks. Its just very distressing having only half my hearing on the right-hand side.
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they are fooking buggers kill like shit, did u get aloud of shit ozzing outa ya ear?
My left ear was operated on in the early 90s because of a burst eardrum. The surgeon cut a bit of my face out and slotted it into my ear to form the new eardrum.
Mr Rude - What do you mean by the '2nd stage' of your operation? Best of luck next week. I hope my right ear isn't a repeat of my left ear.
When the surgeon did my left ear in 1992, he cut some muscle out of my face and sew it into my ear so that it behaved like an ear drum. The functionality - as in my hearing was pretty much restored, even though I am deaf and wear hearing aids for life. If anything, the drum is now stronger because it is made of a different material.
I couldn't bear to think that skin would grow over the drum. Where were you operated? I was based in Shropshire and had it done in Shrewsbury hospital (eyes, ears and throat).
They say that a perforated ear drum can grow back within a month. I really hope so because I've had over !20! operations in my life. Mainly to do with my eye(s) + a couple of plastic surgery ones.
i had a really bad perforated ear drum, had a myringoplastly in june where they cut along the crease at the back of the ear, remove some muscle from somewhere, pull the ear forward and make me a new ear drum
Wow i had that, got a nice scar behind my ear with a little dip in it. i gotta have it again soon :nervous:
i dont know what they did tbh! it wasnt cutting skin out just gettin rid of it! but its grown back! ahhh wel. ive had ops on my eyes, ears and throat, tis shit! wowww over 20! i thought i was bad with nrly 10, fuck, poor u!