What is this on my ear drum?
What is black dot in upper left?
For context:
Had sudden “water in ear” feeling after a run 3 weeks ago. Pain came on not long after that and proceeded to get worse to the point of considering ER in the middle of the night. Pain manageable the next day with ibuprofen.
Went to urgent care next day and they said ear infection, got a run of antibiotics. Pain went away but hearing still very muffled and still that water in ear feeling.
A week later went to another urgent care and got another antibiotic run. Same result as before, no pain but no improvement in hearing.
Finally got in to ent and hearing test confirmed loss of hearing due to swollen inner ear. Doc said infection gone but still have to wait for swelling to go down, should be subsiding in a few days.
Been on a regiment of Flonase, mucinex, allergy pills, Sudafed etc and still no improvement to hearing and muffled feeling is still very prevalent.
Flash forward to today using an ear camera I see that the yellow is the potential healing of perforated ear drum? So what’s that black dot in the upper left?