Livejournal, M.D.

[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

[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. :(