IKE
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- Oklahoma....U.S.A.
My right ear has been stopped up for quite awhile (years) and up till now I've just been biting the bullet and putting up with it......hearing in my right ear is always muffled and I feel a dull pressure and slight ache constantly with some days being worse than others, this morning it's VERY bothersome and because it is I'm again contemplating having something done.
Not that it's related but I've also had tinnitus constantly in both ears for several years.
A few years back I went to a ENT and he attempted to install a drainage tube in the office and before trying he told me that only a small percentage of people can handle the cutting of the ear drum and inserting the drain without being admitted to the hospital and given a general anesthetic but most can't......I couldn't and left.
I recall coming home and getting on the computer after the appointment and researched the procedure and of course I found several horror stories of people that had complications and problems with excessive bleeding, infection and the tube clogging up afterwards......but there are risks with any procedure I suppose.
From what I recall after the procedure, you're given antibiotics and you've got to plug your ears to keep water from entering the tube when showering (till the tube comes out), use ear drops and normally over the counter pain meds are sufficient......I read that after 10-12 months they just fall out on their own ?
Of course I've tried the holding my nose and blowing many, many times and I can hear and feel gurgling, popping and crackling so there is definitely fluid of some sort in my ear that is just not draining sufficiently and hasn't for several years.....normally after holding my nose and blowing if I can force a yawn afterwards I hear a pop and my ear opens somewhat.
As most know stopped up ears, ear infections and ear tubes are normally a childhood problem and not so much with adults from what I've read......I guess I'm just fortunate.
Has anyone ever had or known anyone that has had a ear drainage tube installed as a adult and how was the experience ?
Thoughts ?
Not that it's related but I've also had tinnitus constantly in both ears for several years.
A few years back I went to a ENT and he attempted to install a drainage tube in the office and before trying he told me that only a small percentage of people can handle the cutting of the ear drum and inserting the drain without being admitted to the hospital and given a general anesthetic but most can't......I couldn't and left.
I recall coming home and getting on the computer after the appointment and researched the procedure and of course I found several horror stories of people that had complications and problems with excessive bleeding, infection and the tube clogging up afterwards......but there are risks with any procedure I suppose.
From what I recall after the procedure, you're given antibiotics and you've got to plug your ears to keep water from entering the tube when showering (till the tube comes out), use ear drops and normally over the counter pain meds are sufficient......I read that after 10-12 months they just fall out on their own ?
Of course I've tried the holding my nose and blowing many, many times and I can hear and feel gurgling, popping and crackling so there is definitely fluid of some sort in my ear that is just not draining sufficiently and hasn't for several years.....normally after holding my nose and blowing if I can force a yawn afterwards I hear a pop and my ear opens somewhat.
As most know stopped up ears, ear infections and ear tubes are normally a childhood problem and not so much with adults from what I've read......I guess I'm just fortunate.
Has anyone ever had or known anyone that has had a ear drainage tube installed as a adult and how was the experience ?
Thoughts ?
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