Well, as most of you know my son recently graduated from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. I am not a fan of air travel - but that can b explored in more depth at a later time. Anyways, in the interest of time, I flew on Porter Airlines from the Toronto Island Airport. Porter was great...they offer free alcoholic beverages :) A great thing for a nervous flyer on a small propeller plane. As normal, my ears popped and doing an extra stop in Montreal did not help the pressure in my ears. Then to make matters worse, we were maybe 50 feet from the ground at the Island Airport on the return home and the pilot changed his mind and took off again - did a circle and then landed the second time.
All fine and well for your average person...but I am so far from average lol! 5 days later I have a doctors appointment and I mention to him that my ears are still popping and I am having periods of deafness. We try Sudafed and Dristan thinking it might be simply sinus related. But no...by the time I saw him again (less than a week) I was approximately 75% deaf with no relief. We started the first of 3 courses of antibiotics which didn't touch the fluid build-up in my ears but in fact my hearing got worse within the first 20 days of taking those "horse" pills. In all I was at least 2 weeks with a 95% hearing loss. It is still not 100% as I experience pressure, popping and itchy-ness still.
But today I saw the Ear Specialist. This is normal he says. Great...I'll never fly again! lol! Well, he clarifies, it may not happen next time...but...it might. I could have had the doctor request an emergency appointment and he could have drained my ears and provided some relief quicker with less drugs. And the hearing test he performed indicated that the hearing in my left ear is worse than my right, but nothing to be concerned about. Whew!
However, should the symptoms persist...I should consider tubes! I am pushing 50 years of age and I am prescribed a procedure associated with pre-schoolers...lol! Will I be admitted to the pediatrics ward? :s
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