Please help me i've gone deaf in one ear!

[astroglide]

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Shove a Q-tip in there.

While this might not do anything, it would be really cool to pull a Q-tip out of your ear covered in blood.

Hope you have insurance,

P. Dirty

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haha

[HopeydaFish]

if there was no dried blood i would say that it's probably just impacted earwax. get some eardrops and use them.

but because of there being dried blood in your ear....i would get it checked out very soon.

jon

[bdk3clash]

I had the exact same thing happen to me about six years ago, went to a 24 hour clinic place and they flushed my ear out with water. A chunk of wax the size of a raisin fell out. Eew.

Any drugstore sells an earwax removal kit, which is usually a squirty bulb thing to flush your ear with water and some drops to disolve the wax. You could do this or just go to the doctor.

[Unoriginalname]

Am I the only one that finds it strange that this guy might be at a serious risk for permanent hearing loss in one ear and he's posting about it in OOT instead of going straight to the ER or calling the his on-call primary care Dr.?

[gorie]

does it hurt ? maybe you ruptured your ear drum if it is bleeding. (although when mine ruptured it was very painful so you'd probably feel it...) if it doesn't hurt it's probably just blocked, but get to a doctor.

it could also be an ear infection

[Awesemo]

i think that some earwax is naturally red, and that's not blood. i would follow the advice of getting the drops.

[CheckRaise]

I know when I've had my ear flushed that the wax was a mixture of red/yellow so the OP might not be screwed.

My hearing is almost back! It was evn worse when i woke up in the morning. I went to the pharmacy but the man said I should not take ear drops if i was unsure of the problem as they could make things worse.

Before going to the doctor I decided to go for some self remedy . A combination of the following things has made the situation a lot better:

Yawning
Holding Nose and swallowing
Shaking my head as fast and hard as possible without breaking my neck

After about 10 minutes of this I was getting some sound again, and it has gradually come back during the day. Its almost perfect now.

Thanks for the help OOT, I was panicking big time last night. Almost had a pencil or a vacuum cleaner in my ear before I came here

[Shajen]

you still need to go to the doctor.