▲ 3 r/hearing
Ruptured my own eardrum!
I used one of those earwax removal scopes, long story short, I ruptured my own ear drum, lots of blood and pain!
I came here looking if this has happened to anyone else?!
u/ambrial — 1 day ago
r/hearing
▲ 6 r/hearing
Do we accept the arguments that come with my mother’s hearing loss, or persuade her to do something about it?
She says she has perfect hearing. But she doesn’t! Eg It forever leads to arguments as she blames others for not speaking clearly or having a strong accent. She doesn’t hear stove timers or her phone pinging unless she’s standing right besides them. She says of course she doesn’t hear them when she’s a room away (never mind my dad or I have to tell her they’re pinging when we’re three rooms away.
Do we have to live with constant arguments (she’s insistent it’s never “her fault” she didn’t hear something) or is there a way to persuade her to get her hearing tested, and the further step of her actually wearing hearing aids?
u/Bermuda_Breeze — 3 days ago
▲ 2 r/hearing
Are cheaper hearing aids fake?
One thing that’s holding me back is I’m worried everything will sound weird or robotic with lower-cost hearing aids. Is that actually true or are newer budget/OTC ones decent enough for normal conversations?
u/Loose_Ad5742 — 3 days ago
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?
u/69possum420 — 4 days ago