Just back from ENT hospital as picked up a savage ear infection while out in Egypt , what followed was lots of pain and painkillers before getting it sorted .
order of events
pain in one ear whilst in Egypt local Dr prescribed some ear drops and antibiotics £20 lighter I used both as advised ears just got worse and pain was terrible .
came home and went to GP who never even looked in the ears and just prescribed some ear spray
used as prescribed for 2 days no result still in pain and eating painkilers like sweeties.
Desperate in the night so went to A n E at local hospital they had a good look and prescribed some different antibiotics with the instruction that if no improvement after 48 hours to visit GP again
48 hours later and in great pain GPs was shut so back to A-E another doc looked and ummed and arred then prescribed a different set of ear drops
I am still taking painkillers and very grumpy also cant hear owt
2 more days of using the new drops to no avail and midnight on sunday finds me pacing up and down holding my head in pain waiting for some strong pain killers to kick in
so off to A-E for a third time and this time saw a doc with some sense at last he listened to me , he looked in the ears . then made an emergency referral to the local ENT hospital but had to wait till monday afternoon
Kept the appointment and saw a very nice consultant who proceeded to look in the offending ears and ask a lot of questions which was funny as I could not hear her at all so me wife had to answer for me .
Then came the toe curling bit Microsuction clean of the ears
not pain full but very strange feeling sounde like a jumbo jet was flying around in there and very weird as she sucked the nasties out
but the relief was fantastic 90 % of the pain was sucked out also
Still cant hear as she packed my ears with wicks and drops but so much relief actually had a nights sleep without painkillers last night .
Got to have these wicks removed tomorrow and another vacuuming .
My conclusions here are see the right people first if at all possible and courses of antibiotics dont work for ear infections