Loud & Clear

“to treat a symptom” - the saga

Written by Aron Strong on September 9, 2008 – 8:34 am -

So for about six months I’ve been having this weird pressure in my ears on and off again. It’s like I’m coming down off the mountain and my ears won’t pop. In the past, it’s just been annoying, eventually going away. This past Friday, it was worse. It gave me a migraine and make me feel sick. So it was time to see the doc.

Doc says no ear infection, so it may be a tube thing causing blockage and prescribes me this “super-sudafed” steroid that should clear it up. Well, it eased the ear pain, but left a big case of vertigo. With a quick adjustment by my good friend Dr. Sorensen on Sunday morning, the vertigo was gone, but the pressure remained.

Oh, if that was only the end.

Sunday afternoon, the hiccups started. And stuck around for the next 24 hours. Ever had the hiccups, big violent hiccups, for that long? Let me tell you, it really sucks. I tried every internet cure listed and nothing. I was convinced it was the medication. Hiccups wasn’t on the sheet, but upset stomach was. So, a pharmacy consult and message to my doc later, I was prescribed an anit-hiccup med.

So, now I’m taking two meds to treat an ear thing that still hasn’t gone away. And this second med I’m given? Yeah, it could have “permanent side effects” and in rare cases “could be fatal”.

Um, hello? This is a secondary med to treat the primary med that isn’t fixing my problem!

So now, I’m a dude on vacation with ear pain, a jacked up digestive system and sporadic hiccups which is battling out supremecy in my body with a potential lethal other drug.

I just want my ears to stop hurting. Who would have thought it would be this complicated?

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