Allyson, you can also turn a hair dryer on LOW and hold it near your ear -- not too close, obviously. Anything with a little heat will help.
Give the antibiotics another day, and use as much ibuprofen or whatever that you can.
Okay, um, I'm lost. Uh, I'm angry, and I'm armed, so if you two have something that you need to work out --
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Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Amy - Jun 24, 2009 5:57:33 am PDT #25522 of 30000
Because books.
tommyrot - Jun 24, 2009 5:58:03 am PDT #25523 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
msbelle - Jun 24, 2009 5:59:23 am PDT #25524 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I have never had ear infections, so other please speak up, but would warm water IN the ear work?
sarameg - Jun 24, 2009 6:02:55 am PDT #25525 of 30000
What Dana suggested. The warm heat helps. I used to get chronic ear infections and sometimes I really wished the eardrum would burst, it hurt so bad. There usually isn't much hearing loss, if any, from a single incidence of burst eardrum. I think it has to be really severe or chronic to get to that point. Doctors have put me on planes with the warning it might happen, "but it'll feel better afterwards. Just don't get water in that ear for a few days." Alrighty then!
OK, back to work.
sarameg - Jun 24, 2009 6:07:08 am PDT #25526 of 30000
but would warm water IN the ear work?
It sounds like it would feel better, but I wouldn't since she also has eardrops (and I don't know if they are for pain or an anti-b.) Also, I wouldn't want to introduce any more crap into the already irritated canal.
tommyrot - Jun 24, 2009 6:11:06 am PDT #25527 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Hearses to be made from Priuses
A limousine company in Japan plans to make hearses out of Priuses. They'll sell for $80,000.
Cool!
Sophia Brooks - Jun 24, 2009 6:31:44 am PDT #25528 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Allyson, I get ear infections any time the season changes. Do you have the steroid/antibiotic drops or just AB drops? The steroid drops have cleared up excruciating pain within a day, but there is still dull pain. The AB drops do nothing until they start working, obviously.
Moist heat is your friend as well as advil.
Sophia Brooks - Jun 24, 2009 6:33:55 am PDT #25529 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
What I actually came in here to say, however was that I took 2 Excedrin two hours ago because I thought it would work better on my headache, and now I am completely manic from the caffeine and I still have the headache. I get this way after novacaine, too-- I am talking (and typing) a mile a minute, my eyes feel like they are going to pop out of my head, and I am breathing rapidly.
Please remind me never to take speed.
Tom Scola - Jun 24, 2009 6:34:02 am PDT #25530 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Awesome photo of a volcano eruption from space: [link]
Polter-Cow - Jun 24, 2009 6:35:31 am PDT #25531 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Holy crap, that's amazing.