h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I have to leave it. Somehow the mechanism has been badly shocked.

It really is

It's so horrible not having stereo hearing. So much of my pleasure in music has disappeared. And that's been a life saver for me of late.

I'm trying to be realistic that things will always take a time to heal..

People keep telling me I'm shouting...

If you can hardly hear your voice..you will. I just hear one side of it

I'm starting to have a horrible feeling some permanant damage is done.

I've tested it out by blocking up the good ear. That results in total deafness.

This may be stating the obvious, but do you think you should arrange to see a physician?

I saw one earlier.

I'll see another in a week. Hopefully my own one then...as she's brilliant.

You don't know what inner city..overcrowded to the nth degree health services are like here now.

It was a miracle I got to see anyone here today...and that involved sitting in the most hellish waiting room full of screaming kids, screaming in about 10 different languages...for half an hour.

Going to the doctors here isn't great for your health. But at least I only had to put up with it from one ear.

Here we're kind of spoiled with our health care system.

And yet a lot of people still complain.


What did the doctor you saw say?

You just ne3ed to get it syringed, Effers. I suffer from the same problem and have to have my ear syringed about twice/year.

See A3994301

Nothing in there that they could see wrong. The mechanism is 'shocked'. I have to wait to see if it heals itself naturally.

I really don't think it will...it's that bad. It's the same ear that I damaged in Australia several years ago after jumping off a high rock into deep water. I wish to god I never did that.

Christ all I did yesterday was swirl around a bit in the bath as I was feeling so agitated in myself.

I am incredibly upset I'll be honest. It's absolutely horrible, and at least I can be honest with you here on this thread...without you laughing and sneering.

I hate this place so much now...but I'm dependent since I got so psychologically ill earlier this year.

Please anhaga if you discover a really nice place online that I might be part of, let me know.

Yes I'm in a terrible state.

I hope you are right BigAl. Maybe the idiot doctor I saw today didn't really understand.

I'm going to phone up a again tomorrow and insist on seeing my own GP.

The only really nice place I know is my real life neighbourhood.

Everywhere I go online seems to be somehow a little or a lot bent, each in its own way.

Yeah my actual neighbourhood is still nice. I had a good chat with Ollie again tonight. He's such an artist in a funny way...he was desperately trying to fix the carburrettor on his scooter...and got it going.

Also I had a few chats with neighbours to and from the shop.

I wish to god there was a GP just in this area...but even then I expect it would be snowed under by vast numbers of people in a horrible little waiting room.

Yes evrything's bent...but I can't stand it if I give so much thought to posts trying to explain my philosophy as an artist...and then after all that no-one gets it.

I am in a pretty bad way at present..but it only takes a lovely thing like a chat with Ollie tonight..or Isa or Pete...and I'm fine again. Same with you. But I just don't have a ny defences to deal with, 'stupidity made coherent' anymore....it kills me.

I have two clinics about two blocks away right across the street from each other. And the University Hospital/Stollery Children's Hospital (which has such capacity that it serves two Territories and the northern half of three Provinces) is just about ten blocks the other way -- oh. "Blocks" In this particular case, a block is about the distance I will walk in about a minute at a leisurely pace. Of course, if I were going north or south instead of east or west a block would be half to two-thirds the distance -- unless I were in some other neighbourhoods.


But, seriously, despite the complaints from many here, where I live the health care system is an embarrassment of riches.

It also is here mostly.

It's the ing hours you wait with the far too many vast unwashed here that is so awful...really its a joke the stress of that.

I'd happily start paying a small fee to see a doctor if it put off half those time wasters.

Sent you an email.

I washed out my ear with some warm water earlier which the doctor suggested I did. Still is absolutely deaf..but no hissing from it which is a relief.

It's really starting to sound (sorry for the `pun) like BigAl's suggestion may be right.

sent you an email, and re`plied (at length) to yours.

got it.

Total deafness continues in the right hand ear.

I'm onto the GP surgery later to insist on appointment with my actual GP.

If you're going to put any liquid in your ear (apart from prescription stuff. e.g. 'Earex') it should be olive oil. The 'ear nurse' will tell you to do this anyway before she will syringe it.

Yes I phoned again today..and they told me to do the olive oil thing twice a day.

And in a week it can be syringed as the wax will have softened hopefully.

(The doctor who looked at it yesterday didn't explain himself very well..his English wasn't good and he had an accent I couldn't understand properly..plus I was in a state and could hardly hear because of the ear problem.

I try to hope that it is just the wax problem. It's still totally blocked today.

But thanks BigAl. It helps that you know about this thing..and the way sudden deafness can occur. I read that article and it says the water can suddenly make ear wax expand and turn hard.

Yes, I work as a teacher and, as I say, my ear periodically gets blocked. As you say, it's EXTREMELY uncomfortable - if not even painful! I can't hear what people, e.g. children in the class are saying/asking me. It also affects my concentration so I can't think properly. It usually happens because water has entered ear when I'm washing my hair. RThen I make it worse by trying to clean it out with rolled up tissue or cotton wool bud (i.e. not taking my own advice from the Entry!!!)
It's such a blessed relief once I have the syringing done