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my left ear leaks. It doesn`t hurt but it stinks. And it is not hte first time. Sometimes antibiotika cures it sometimes not. But the op I got years ago didn`t make it better.
You can`t get rid of your doom.

Zer, go find a place that sells homeopathic medicine, and buy some Silicea D6,
and take tree-five times a day, on an empty stomach.
Some three-four pills at a time.
They should be held in the mouth, under the toungue, and dissolve there.
You may need some more ...but this is for starters, and may fix it.

Jörgen

So, how are you doing, any news?

It's going better today, thanks Nestor . I'm still under treatment, this is the last day.

next to nothing wrote:- My nick change was because Scope4live was offering a couple of cards for next to nothing in another thread....

Regarding ending your treatment as soon as possible, take Kensuguros advice and do the treatment fully. Breaking too early increases the risk of making your bacterial flora resistant to antibiotics, which is bad.

I didn't read that; where does it is located?

I rushed talking about ending the treatment as soon as possible.
My upset is mostly about symptomatic drugs. Treating the effects only, the way we usually do with flu, it's wrong IMHO. We anyway "forget" the illness using drugs, then we go around, weaken a body which is demanding the most of its resources to defeat the pathogenic agent; nevertheless we spread around the disease.

Zer wrote:my left ear leaks. It doesn`t hurt but it stinks. And it is not hte first time. Sometimes antibiotika cures it sometimes not. But the op I got years ago didn`t make it better.

The secretion from my left ear is dry, instead; kind of very thin scabs sticked on the skin of the duct. During the worst days there was some stink too in my bedroom when I was getting up after sleeping.
I almost ever have dry, white secretion from that ear and some itch especially during hearing stress periods. ...The left is the one next to the car window I use to keep open since I smoke (just to change the internal smoke with the external one )...

Cochise wrote:Since some year I'm using an AKG K 240 Monitor. I bought it accidentally. At that time I was not aware the K 240 comes out with two different models: the Studio, having 55 Ohm impedance, and the Monitor, having 600 Ohm. The result is it never sounds very loud without an headphone amplifier, which I've never bought.

Which is a good thing for my ears, but a bad thing for my sound since frequencies have a different balance for human hearing at different SPLs

BingoTheClowno wrote:...Did you like the song named "There is no God"?

I prefer the lyrics of the Extreme's song having that name. Although I'm back to be a guitar freak in these last days, I like the VAC version ; it anyway reminds me to some dark music I was listening to in the end of the '80..

zangsta wrote:Zer, go find a place that sells homeopathic medicine, and buy some Silicea D6,
and take tree-five times a day, on an empty stomach.
Some three-four pills at a time.
They should be held in the mouth, under the toungue, and dissolve there.
You may need some more ...but this is for starters, and may fix it.

Jörgen

I´ll give it a shoz although I´m quite sceptic about homeopathic medicine. But anything what may help is welcome.

colloidal silver will kill that if you get another pair of headphones(bacteria build up in them) and don't use them for a bit. with colloidal silver get 1100ppm solution and be sure to get it from a reputable source. low quality silver products can turn you blue....

I would put a few drops of collodial silver in the ears too, if I had a condition like Zer or Cochise has.
Another good thing is oil of oregano, essential oil, diluted in olive oil, heated to body temperature, and then drop into the ear.
Organo oil can be substituted with lavendel- or tea-tree-oil.

yes.

I would recommend a good experienced acupuncture specialist, if you have one in town. I have seen miracles with such techniques, amazing cures of diseases that had no chance to be treated through traditional means.

I too, like you, find that the most common error of traditional medicine and their drugs, is trying to cure the effects, and not the causes of the illness.

Once every 3 months or so - depending on how much loud recording/mixing and/or headphone use I am dealing with, I proactively use eardrops down the ear canal to loosen wax buildup and for disinfection purposes.

Over time the ear builds up wax to protect the inner ear from (especially) loud sounds, which stress the muscles in the inner ear.

Leave the drops in for several minutes, tiliting the head to one side, and then eventually tilt the head back the other direction, and flush the ear out gently with warm water using a syringe - which you can get at most pharmacies. There are ear drop/syringe packages in the stores.

The drops loosen the wax, and the water will flush out built up wax.

Sounds gross, but it works.

Another radical approach (and this is not a joke) is 'ear coning', where a cone of wax-wrapped paper is gently set into the ear canal, the end is lit with a match, which creates warm-air convection in the ear canal, which effectively sucks the extra infection and wax out of the ear. The process is actually very relaxing, but is best used by an observer and/or doctor.

I've done this in extreme times when I have had painful inner ear infections. It speeds up the evacuation of crap in the ear, and helps with speeding up the healing of the inner ear.

I am not kidding - this works..

Note that just simply taking antibiotics for the ear is dumb because it also kills off all the other natural defenses your body has built up to defend itself against imposters. Taking antibiotics weakens the immune system, and leaves you open for other attacks.

(This is where the stupid state-run universal health care argument falls on its ear - pun intended) - first reaction by doctors is to simply dump you with antibiotics and charge you for it, and leave you HOPING that this will fix the problem. In reality it only temporarily masks the problem, which can come back with a vengence if you are not careful.

The next most obvious approach is to find a good ear-nose-throat doctor that can simply clean out the inner ear canal without damaging any tissue. These guys are not prone to just giving you drugs, they'll actually fix the problem.

Your ears are your life, so learn to take care of them!

Greg

zangsta wrote:I would put a few drops of collodial silver in the ears too, if I had a condition like Zer or Cochise has.
Another good thing is oil of oregano, essential oil, diluted in olive oil, heated to body temperature, and then drop into the ear.
Organo oil can be substituted with lavendel- or tea-tree-oil.

Yes, this works (see my other post).

Greg

The worst is definitely gone; no more pain, no more inflammation-swelling, and my hearing sense is quite back to the normality ( though I'm thinking about undergoing an audiometric checkup in the next days ).
The micro-ulcerations are still there in my left ear. I guess the wetness caused by the treatment and the treatment itself weren't that good for those.

@ Garyb

I'm wondering about the way to sanitize my headphones, even from possible spores; maybe an UV lamp could suit..


@ siriusbliss

Of course there were wax buildups inside my ears. The ear-nose-throat doctor removed them before prescribing the treatment.

It sounds a wise advise the use of eardrops from time to time; the buildups do favour infections.

I know the candle method, but it doesn't work with me since the secretion in my left ear seems to be too dry.

glad you're feeling a little better.

Serves as a reminder to me that I should do a little 'maintenance' as well

Greg

We all should, if we want to be ready for XSITE 1

Glad to here that Cochise...

air is the biggest enemy of the bacteria that build up in headphones.....
that's what makes problems when you wear headphones for a long time. the air doesn't circulate in the ear and bacteria grows a little too well and builds up.

I have eczema in my ears and had been suffering from inflammated ears continiously the last year (although mostly without severe pains). Doctors of course prescribed anitbiotics and as stated above, these won't do you any good in the long run.
I had enough of it and went to the nose-ear-throat specialist as well after having the same issues as Cochise: severe pain and serious drop in the higher frequency regions. A simple solution: sweet almond oil regularly and cottonwool with oil when taking showers/washing my hair. Dry ducts and itching due to the eczema made me regularly scratch my ears, hence causing little wounds and inflammation... It's been ok for a while now.

About homeopathics... I was septical too, but I don't want to take antibiotics anymore. A few weeks ago our theatre crew had the flu going around, and one of my collegues told me about his homeopathic medicine (oscillococinol (like the sound of it too )) and it did wonders. I was only hoping, and not believing, it would help, but it did...

stay off the pharmaceuticals as much as possible and live longer....
there are times that pharmaceuticals are the best choice, but not often and less often over the long term.

I coudn't agree more on this Gary

stardust wrote:...I am not saying to bleach and grill the headphones in the sun on a BBQ, but this can be the natural treatment afterwards.

borg wrote:I have eczema in my ears and had been suffering from inflammated ears continiously the last year (although mostly without severe pains). Doctors of course prescribed anitbiotics and as stated above, these won't do you any good in the long run...

I was quite laconic about the whole symptomatology during the checkup with the ENT specialist. I think it's better I come back to him now.

...I usually avoid to finger my ears, unless I'm awake and fully conscious...