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In reply to the discussion: Top cancer hospitals across the country treat their patients' PAIN with "woo." [View all]laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)he can't know if you were days or minutes from going deaf from an ear infection - how ridiculous. I have had a ruptured ear drum and I have felt that pain except mine came on ridiculously suddenly, no time to go to the doctor until the next day when my ear drum had already ruptured. I'm not deaf, although it did feel like I was hearing underwater for a month or so. IS there a risk of deafness? There is a risk of hearing loss with repeated infections, or if the infection damages the auditory nerve, but a doctor can't know that until the infection is gone and some time has passed, because most regain their hearing.
Besides the swelling wouldn't go down from only 2 hours on antibiotics. He must've given you something else. Antibiotics take much longer than that to work. Unless it was iv antibiotics.
Anyway, it wasn't 'woo' that almost 'made you deaf', it was your parents who ignored your pain for a month, wtf? Even my friends who are VERY into 'natural medicine' would never wait that long to see a real doctor. Most people understand the limitations of alternative treatments.