Slugbaby
 
The only time my hearing degrades seems to be when my wife asks me to do stuff.

Slugbaby
 
The only time my hearing degrades seems to be when my wife asks me to do stuff.

Ha!

Don’t know if anyone knows this, but some antibiotics and even over the counter pain killers are a good way to kill hearing, maybe permanently. Less so with aspirin type stuff because you can back off when the ringing in the ears starts and usually recover. Usually...
 
Some of our antibiotics are however killer to the ears and so toxic they even knock out your sense of balance.
 
Bitflipper is out there currently with a chain saw doing battle with the blackberries. If he gets a deep prick and it gets infected, the docs will try some powerful stuff you can take at home, but if that doesn’t contain the spread, they are forced to drag out the big guns.
 
We wander into the clinic to get the heavy stuff and don’t realize the cast of many behind the scenes trying not to kill us in search of the cure. If the levels at the low end of elimination are too elevated, your kidneys can rot out in a couple days. If the levels a couple hours after taking the things is too hi, that’s where your hearing gets nuked.
 
Still troubled by a patient I had some time ago. He was placed on a machomatic bug blaster trying to save a leg from falling off. Normally a facility way far away monitored and adjusted blood levels of the drug. They sent us a request to monitor and adjust, but we never got the request. The poor guy went on for about 5 weeks as blood levels of the toxin went to radioactive. The guy went deaf and couldn’t walk any more after we fried his balance circuit.
 
Hearing loss with the antibiotics and “NSAID” pain relievers usually hits the hi end first making it hard to catch early since conversation is mid range. First clue might be that you ask the person if he heard the bird chirping and get the response, what bird?
 
John

I had really bad earache recently and was terrified it was a big infection and they'd tell me I had to take antibiotics. I've heard of cases of people getting tinnitus or hearing loss from taking certain antibiotics and so I really didn't want to take anything. On the other hand, an ear infection.....hmm!
 
So what I did was gorge on garlic pills. I usually take a couple of them a day because they seem to keep colds away for me (at least I've never had a cold since I started taking them), but I upped the dose to 8 or 10 a day. Couple of days later, earache completely gone. Of course I can't be sure it was the garlic but hey, that's my story and I'm sticking to it....

Maybe it wasn't an earache but a vampire instead.

My hearing is terrible. I receive new hearing aids in a couple of weeks
hoping for better results 

Glad Sharke's ear infection is cured and mega doses of garlic may have helped. Not so happy about Bayou's hearing aids.
 
Rambling note about ear infections and antibiotics...
Works wonders if it is the right fit, but...
 
You go into the doc with a bad ear infection. Very easy to tell in most cases that you got an infection, but not possible to know what is causing it without some real invasive procedures and time to identify.
There are maybe 3 more common causes of the bacterial infections that should respond to some general penicillin type agents, that is if they rolled the dice right.
Likely also that the bug is something else that the abx won't touch, or the right bug that is resistant. Then there are the viral sources that the antibiotic has no power over.
Means that in many cases, you get all the poisoning and side effects of the medicine with no curative benefit. The prescription you left the office with is a shot in the dark. Educated guess, but still a guess.
 
The smoke and mirrors part of this is that the body will in most cases cure the infection on its own within 2 weeks. You've been puking your guts up and exploding from both ends from the side effects of the drug. The ear ache gets better and thanks doc. That antibiotic was a terrible experience, but it cured the ear infection.
 
Antibiotic had nothing to do with it.
 
Over here in the US, mom brings in the kid with an earache and Amoxicillin for 10 days is the knee jerk reaction. Europe in many places is more evolved in ear ache treatment. They know the hit and miss drug approach and that the body will typically cure within 2 weeks with no drugs. They treat with Tylenol for pain for the first 14 days before thinking about antibiotics if there is no critical reason to start nuking the condition with bug killers.
 
John

Some tinnitis. Swimmers ear in my youth affected hearing in one ear (~%25 loss). Then there were the concerts and listening with headphones way too loud when I was ten foot tall and bulletproof.
 
I was thinking the other day, when I was younger I would play the music in the car very loud because I wanted. Now I play the music in the car really loudly because I want to hear it. :)