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Day 3 of stubborn ear problems. (hexbear.net)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Going to the store tomorrow, going to buy the kit that has the plunger in it and see about flushing my ear out. If this doesn't work the next stop is the urgent care. I tried to use more hydrogen peroxide today and that just made things worse. The weird thing is if I pull the skin near my ear tight or like swish around my ear with my hand I hear it pop and like kind of open up. I even tried doing the trick of closing my nose with my hand and blowing on my ear drums and it almost feels like it wants to pop. But I realize that way is dangerous and I could pop my ear drum.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There's the urgent care and they take my medicaid so if flushing my ears out won't work there's that. My last stop would be the hospital, but I seriously don't want to do that.

[–] Efwis 1 points 8 months ago

Urgent care is basically a hospital er without the rest of the hospital, claiming to be cheaper, I have found price wise they are very similar. I would go to the urgent care rather than er if you need to see the doctor for this. Urgent care usually doesn’t have you eating a long time to be seen, usually in and out within an hour for broken bones, but for a ear flushing you would be looking at about 20 mins turn around depending on how busy they are.