JohnKenn
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

You must have read my book.
This sounds like what happened with me. It was the fifties and sixties and antibiotics were the miracle drugs that were going to cure the world. I had a lot of ear (and nose and throat) infections when I was little and thus took a lot of drugs. We discovered I am allergic to penicillin, too. Almost killed me, according to Mom.

90%+ loss in my left ear, 50%+ in the right with tinnitus and vertigo.

Had my hearing checked a couple of month's ago. I think I posted something here about it. 
Really good results up to about 10K. Then I start falling off. They wanted 8K for the best hearing aids they had. 
I moved on.

Hi,
 
My issue, is that sometimes I can not understand what someone said, and hearing it right/properly helps create this problem. When it is very low, or a comment that is under the thumb, toe and mouth, then I wonder what was said, and what it meant ... and one of these days I'll even know what the comments by Bapu and Craig in two letters, really mean! I guess the bass or guitar can not have too many notes! We'll have to ask Jaco about that someday!

Ya

Moshkito
Hi,
 
My issue, is that sometimes I can not understand what someone said, and hearing it right/properly helps create this problem. When it is very low, or a comment that is under the thumb, toe and mouth, then I wonder what was said, and what it meant ... 

Eh?

http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Menieres-disease/Pages/Introduction.aspx
 

 

Bhav,
 
Seriously bummed here about your condition.
 
Excessive biological pressure in the Allah created compartments does damage when things can't flow into the adjacent area or can't be equalized across the system.
 
Two advices please to consider.
 
Lower salt in the diet to reduce compartmentalized swelling and damage.
 
As unpopular as it has been here in the past, the yoga asanas are a life raft you need, and need now.
 
Flexibility and redistribution of fluid buildups will happen with your effort of a few minutes a couple times a day. If damage is not permanent, resolution and healing will happen over about a month. Got fixes for the vertigo as well if not flamed into the pit for what is not cool.
 
John