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Ummmm 5 weeks does seem to be ringing bells.
Bloody ear infection that's making my jaw hurt. Had it a month now. GP gave me dropss, which eased it, but as soon as I stopped using them it's back. More hassle trying to get back in to get some antibiotics. Minging chest too. Put me down!
I wonder if the answer might be high powered vitamin tablets.
Bloody ear infection that's making my jaw hurt. Had it a month now. GP gave me dropss, which eased it, but as soon as I stopped using them it's back.
I had something similar on and off for a year or so - really awful at times - couldn't hear, couldn't eat, couldn't sleep - sometime the pain spread to cause nasty stabbing pains behind my eye
Get advice as well as drops. Might not be the same issue for you but for me it was a sort of vicious circle of an eczema-like reaction in the ear canal that made the skin prone to infection - which cause eczema - which caused infection again and again. So my treatment was a mix or antibiotics and cortisone drops.
The docs can be very forthcoming with the drops - less so with advice - so they hadn't explained there other steps that I needed to be taking as well as taking the medication - such as not letting any water get into my ears when I bath/wash/shower. It was only having been passed around between GPs and consultants for a year that I really lost my rag with one of them (you get grumpier and grumpier) as they kept sending me away with the same treatment and I wasn't getting any better. Non of them had actually told me what was going on or what was supposed to be doing - they all assumed someone else had already done it
That's the new shitty NHS for you.All that counts is cash.
Thought I was improving.Woke up earlier sweating,aching chesty and red eyed.I,ve MTFU and it still isn't working.Seeing my asthma nurse tomorrow,I,d better have a chat about this.I was trying to avoid antibiotic use but I think its on the horizon now.
Curse that shitty NHS..never there for you..never monitoring long term conditions...curse them...
DrP