Perforated eardrum?
 

As I was cleaning my one 'good ear' with some cotton buds & Earex a few days ago,

the part where you rinse, dry & wait for the hearing to come on again

......didn't.

a trip to the doctor, and he examined it with his torch device and declared an ear drum was indeed holed.

So anyone here able to tell me just how long I might expect to live in near silence, and should I make the best of both being off work/absence of nagging :D

while it heals,

did the same..Q-tip
got infected...
several surgeries..nothing
now deaf in that ear..

should heal pretty quick..
most likely a little bit of scaring...
which can affect hearing..

the biggest thing you should stick into your ear..
is your ELBOW..
good luck..

Rika

Sorry to hear that about the deafness,
been deaf in the other ear for about Five years anyway myself so quite sympathize.

On the plus-side however I heard about someones daughter (14) that had a cochleal
implant together with a 3.5 socket in which her ipod goes

you should be fine..
was a kid..
Dr. said no swimming..
I went swimming..

Rika

I blew out an eardrum on a plane flight about 5 years ago. Was suffering from a head cold at the time. It hurt like hell on the plane (didn't realize I'd actually holed it) and I had what could only be described as a "stuffy" feeling in that ear for the following few weeks. Didn't really notice any degradation in hearing, so I didn't worry.

During a routine doctor visit about a month later my doc looks in there and says, "Did you know you have some scarring on your eardrum?" Lesson learned...now I take Sudafed before flying!

What?

Beat me to it but I was gonna say Huh?

What?

BTDT, it took numerous weeks to heal in my case. It's pretty scary as well as disorienting when you can't hear much at all on one side, but it does generally return to normal with time.

I was already hearing in 'mono' to start with, so well used to shuffling through 360 to find who was calling me

oh well

It took about 6 months for my 9yr old to heal and get his hearing back.

Both of my eardrums have been perforated for about 6 years now. It's seemingly permanent. I did a lot of free diving and one one trip down had them both go on me. I had a muffled feeling in my ears for a few weeks but it went away. My hearing is not seemingly degraded at all, it's the same as I remember it before. However, I have an open eustachian tube from my ears to my throat due to some previous surgery to remove some infected glands and I can pour warm water in my ears and suck drops of liquid in to my throat. So 6 years later and I still have a slight hole in the eardrum.

Again, my hearing doesn't seem to be affected at all and the weird feeling from the initial rupture went away in about 2 weeks.

If it is bad enough, you might be able to get a skin graft- they did this for me when I was in second grade. Actually, that same eardrum ruptured when I was 15 and it healed.

As for cochlear implants, they are pretty amazing. My cousin-in-law adopted a baby and they found out it was totally deaf. She got the implants, and they really work! Very cool technology.

I suffered a stroke (TIA) Five years ago, the only ill effects of though was the loss of hearing in my right ear.

TBH it was only after a month in hospital and a week at home I even noticed the fact,
(I was occupied with learning to walk, and write all over again)
I simply hadn't noticed.

Consequently I've been pretty good to my remaining ear as a result, at least up until last week of course.

I now know what my mother went through with her deafness although it was old age mostly caused it, and I'm looking forward to regaining what hearing I can, there seems no hard and fast rule to recovery though, and I've read lots of accounts from other forum members
Richard