'eh? What did you say?

[ellyssian]

I estimate I have about 10% of my hearing in the left ear - this is a very unscientific estimate, because 1) I'm not really ruling out the right ear completely, and 2) I'm taking a wild guess.

I do know that I can't use the left earpiece for listening to music - sure, I can hear some, but it swirls and sounds out of phase. I'm just using the right, and I did the best to compensate with the computer. Unfortunately, that just involves moving the balance to the right, which isn't a true balance, in that it drops the left channel volume and maxes the right, but it doesn't do anything about arranging a visit to the right channel by the left channel signal. Anyway you slice it, it's still half a stereoscopic signal, and not a monaural whole.

Comments

[wolfette]

go get a hearing test. Now.

[bookgirlwa.livejournal.com]

I *emphatically* second this.

And if it has anything to do with the ear infection/punctured ear drum you mentioned something about a few weeks ago, get it checked out asap. I had a huge drama a couple of years ago with a punctured ear drum (two holes in one ear), and both ears being infected at the same time. There was pus and festering, and it took several weeks of painful treatment plus an operation to close the puncture that wasn't healing on its own. Really wish I'd dealt with it earlier. But I still have my hearing, thank god.

Really, avoid this if you can!

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

The doctor (i.e. the receptionist) wasn't worried, and said to call back in the morning.

Some people would rather go home on time, I suppose...

[benponder.livejournal.com]

splice the wires from the left earpiece onto the wires from the right earpiece. Did that when I blew a speaker in a car once (well, I didn't blow the speaker, but... some people are idiots). worked well enough.

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

How do you get into the wires behind the eardrum... oh, you mean the headphones! =)

I'm hoping its temporary enough that it won't be a big deal.

[patrixa.livejournal.com]

Yeah, or you could end up like me, with an uncorrectable hearing loss. Maybe we should practice ASL. And while it is a pain now, it could ease up when all the sinusitis is gone. sharp pain in the ear should be seen reight away, though. Did you call the GP or an ENT doctor? Should your primary MD give you an ENT reference?

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

No - last time I went to see an ENT guy he said "While you're on these brazillions of steroid nose sprays and inhalers and pills and drops and lions and tigers and bears oh my, you'll never ever get another ear infection." Of course, I called him two days before the next appointment and said he might want me to come in right away because I was currently suffering the worst ear infection I've ever had - and that puppy, which came complete with my first documented perforation, still takes the crown.

That was a get-out-of-bed-stand-up-and-then-feel-your-face-slide-down-the-wall kind of thing. The pain was so severe, I attempted to boil myself in the tub to avoid it.

[patrixa.livejournal.com]

Is that ENT in PA or in MA? Because that sounds SO wrong. I've never been treated by anyone like that! I've had several ENT's before there was an MIT Medical here and in Baltimore, none were so callous.
You ought to try another...pain and hard-of-hearing difficulties are not something to brush off. Really.

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

Deaconess Hospital.

I have had doctors from MIT onward tell me that "You'll never have another after your x" where x was an age I'd be in a year or two - and that's never worked.

[opakele.livejournal.com]

I think you should listen to your mother.

[nhmetalchick.livejournal.com]

Could it be possible that you are immune to the antibiotics they have you on and it's doing nothing for you? I've taken so much Penicillian as a kid for ear infections that it would be like me eating a piece of candy now, and Jesse is pretty much getting immune to amoxacilian. Is it just blocked or are you in massive amounts of pain? If it's just blocked I wouldn't think it would be likely to be perforated. Sounds like your ear infections are the same as Jesse and I get, used to the pain until it becomes so infected that it takes what seems like forver to unblock and heal. I always do what I'm not supposed to, pinch my nose close my mouth and blow, sometimes it hurts like hell, but it clears it for a few minutes. Gotta watch out doing that though, got so dizzy once I almost fell over. Def. time for another appt.

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

I'm not immune to the antibiotics, but apparently this bug is - I've never taken this particular flavor before (which is something, because the MIT doc cruised my records - 1969-1990, anyway - and said, "Yeah, you've been on just about everything.")