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[juldea]

Diagnose me!

First in one ear, now it has left that ear and moved to the other - a burning dull pain. Imagine someone coated a golf ball with tabasco sauce and shoved it into your ear canal. It's not constant. It hurts more when I move my jaw around; yawning, eating, etc. :(

But damn, it fucking hurts A LOT.

And yes, I know, "see a doctor." Gettin' on that. Just thought I'd poll for answers here first.

Comments

[baronbrian.livejournal.com]

Sounds like an ear infection.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

That's what I was suspecting. :P

[scirocco.livejournal.com]

My little Widget was diagnosed with one of these today. The good news is, Amoxicillin is cheap. :)

[sjo.livejournal.com]

My thoughts as well. Could be sinus & ear, just for the bonus round. Those f**kers are hard to clear up, too! Feh. :-(

[gaffman.livejournal.com]

ear infection. I have exactly that right now. My whole face hurts

[juldea.livejournal.com]

:(

[caltren.livejournal.com]

Ear/Sinus infection. No doubt.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Foo.

[caltren.livejournal.com]

That reminds me of an old legend I heard of the Foo Bird. I'm sure you know it. :-)

[juldea.livejournal.com]

nope, I don't!

[caltren.livejournal.com]

Well, as the story goes, there's a bird named the Foo Bird. They are very very rare--thought to be extinct. Not much is known about the birds really. What is known is a very beautiful but very dangerous bird. Multi-colored plumage, a long beautiful yellow beak. Its name comes from it's rather raucous call, which is actually said to sound a lot like a whistling, "Foo! Foo!". One thing that was learned about it is that it has a highly caustic/poisonous excrement. It's theorized that its caused by a diet of berries highly poisonous to humans.

As the story goes, this last particular fact was learned by a small group of biologists who were travelling the amazon. The chief one, an actual ornithologist by the name of Dr. Fehhle was actually specifically looking for the Foo Bird. The natives had a name for it, which roughly translated to "Evil Droppings". Heh. Go figure. So, they heard the raucous cry of the bird and went crashing through the undergrowth. Unfortunately they startled the 2 Foo Birds they found, which took flight. In their fright, the peppered the Dr and his assistant, Paul Lowedhall with droppings. Dr. Fehhle scraped off the droppings from his rather large nose and fell over. Dead. His assistant, not realizing what happened, did the same and fell over immediately dead. The rest of the team fled back into the forest. From there the old adage about the Foo Bird was first formed:

"If the Foo shits, wear it." ;-) ;-) ;-)

[juldea.livejournal.com]

*groan*

[caltren.livejournal.com]

Well, actually there's a follow-up on that. Many years later, there was a rumor that the Foo Bird had migrated to some remote areas of the southern Pacific. Thor Lowardall, one of the members of the original expedition immediately mounted an expedition. Over the years he had become obsessed with the Foo Bird, and the thought of seeing one at least (he actually had never seen the birds they found in the Amazon) lit a fire in him that could not be put out.

Many months they traversed the islands in the southern Pacific. Thor had almost given up. He was running out of supplies, when in the distance he saw this small atoll. Approaching it, he realized it was very dangerous to approach because there were great shoals of sharp shallow reef all around the side of it he was on. He was about to give the order to turn around and head for home when he heard the raucous cry across the water... "Foo! Foo!".

He and his assistant dove into the water and started to wade ashore, not heeding the sharp coral. But then a common seal swam by, trailing a sticky brown substance. The assistant got some on him, scraped it off and immediately was deader than a doornail. When Thor realized what happened he just about ran on top of the water back to the boat.

You see, that atoll was far more dangerous--as any seal can plainly foo.

[oddharmonic.livejournal.com]

I agree with probable ear infection.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

No fun! Doesn't that mean antibiotics? Because to me, antibiotics = yeast infection :(

[ex-dervish821.livejournal.com]

Me too. Eat yogurt daily while on the antibiotics, and ask for a Diflucan prescription with your antibiotics, for when the yeast infection appears anyway.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Luckily, I already eat yogurt daily, AND I have some leftover diflucan from when I was having the cyst problems.

[oddharmonic.livejournal.com]

It usually does. I've taken acidophilus concurrently with a course of antibiotics to minimize the related digestive upset, so it might be worth a try to fend off an antibiotic-related yeast infection.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Would my daily yogurt (fat-free, plain) treatment satisfy that?

[oddharmonic.livejournal.com]

As long as it have live active cultures, yes. (Most purchased yogurt is labeled if it is.)

[eustacia42.livejournal.com]

Exactly. :(

[karldark.livejournal.com]

[quote]First in one ear, now it has left that ear and moved to the other - a burning dull pain[/quote]

wow that sounds like a wayward STD

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Damn that ear sex!! ;)

[rufinia.livejournal.com]

Hm. Better have londo get his ears checked too...

[sjo.livejournal.com]

Wingwang too. Those rampaging ear/peen STDs are never pretty.

[jargo.livejournal.com]

Ear infection. Get it taken care of before you rupture one of your eardrums.

[flyingindie.livejournal.com]

This post reminds me of something my friend Josh used to say in high school. I apologize in advance.

"Twat did you say? I cunt understand you. I have an ear infucktion!"

[juldea.livejournal.com]

*giggle*

[bellaanne.livejournal.com]

last time I had an ear infection (sounds like you have one) I was little and on a trip with my family in Costa Rica. Long story short some guy taught me a "local cure."
Light a cigarrete and stick the unlit end in your ear. It draws out the moisture.
Worked like a charm.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but I can't stand cigarette smoke. >_