#symptoms of an ear infection

[introvert-celeste]

My cat Sirius isn't eating and I'm worried 😟 He's elderly (11, almost 12, years old) and not eating is a bad sign at his age. I'm hoping he's just not feeling good and that he'll get better, but at his age, I'm not sure.

[sherlock-is-ace]

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[captainjonnitkessler]

If I had a nickel for every time I went to urgent care/the ER on a Saturday after trying to put off medical care, got treatment, and then had to go BACK to urgent care/the ER the following Monday because my symptoms were inexplicably getting worse, I'd have two nickels.

Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice on two consecutive fucking weekends

[rexbolt]

it's just psychiatric bro there's nothing man just go to therapy

[kittykatninja321]

I have this random bruising and swelling in my ear and I didn’t sleep all night because of it 😑

[dontwanderoff]

i only have one more tablet left of my antibiotics and still feel literally zero percent different 🙃 im gonna have to go back to a doctor aren't i?

[thethingything]

anyway I know I keep venting a lot and then acknowledging in the tags of those posts that I've been venting a lot on here lately but once again it is worth taking into account that I'm in severe pain, am having to deal with knowing we're going to have to spend most (if not all) of our savings on the treatment for that, am also experiencing medication side effects such as constantly feeling like I'm going to throw up and experiencing spasms in my fucking lungs that mean I can't breathe properly and have to take another medication that makes me feel even worse, am still experiencing ear infection symptoms like random stabbing pain and completely losing my balance and having green puss leaking out of my ears despite me being on antibiotics for nearly a week (and this is still significantly better than I felt before taking them), and my medical phobias have been fucking me up so badly our brain split 2 new alters within the last week mostly just to stop me having panic attacks on a daily basis so now I only have them every couple of days instead, so I think maybe the amount of venting is understandable

[stochastiz]

tfw it seems like your job genuinely couldn't care less about your wellbeing :)

[ambrosia-sdit]

guess who got another haircut! the groomer is obsessed with how sweet she is! she said ambrosia kept giving her hugs with her paws 🥺

[naivety]

pulsatile tinnitus worst thing to ever happen to a girl who isn't a girl

[nexus-nebulae]

why do my doctors keep putting me on multiple-times-a-day meds schedules i tell them over and over i can't remember that often but they keep doing it

[sherlock-is-ace]

ear infection my beloathed... as if my jaw didn't already hurt normally now i have to deal with this!

[wetslug]

my roommate just extended her trip another 3 weeks and now i think her guinea pig is getting sick ughughughgu

[cruelsister-moved2]

I clearly had covid at some point recently because yesterday I tried to eat a packet of salt and vinegar crisps and they tasted like there had been some kind of toxic chemical spill at the factory, today I ordered more to make up for it and they were the same, at which point I made lewis try one and confirm they taste normal so it's something with my taste and then I sniffed a bottle of rice vinegar and it smelled the same way. literally like burnt rubber and nail polish remover to me.

at least it's just vinegar and not anything I'd eat more often but it's literally making me question reality when my brain is just making up this smell/taste out of nowhere?? did anyone have anything similar and did it get better. because idt I can live without salt and vinegar crisps or balsamic vinegar or sushi!!

[petitgalaxy]

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[vamptastic]

endocrinology appointment is next month 👍 i need to start writing stuff down so the appointment goes well but i kinda don't know where to start. i guess the big things are:

-gonna ask to have my 17-hydroxyprogesterone tested to see if i could have N-CAH as it's often mistaken for PCOS. nbd if she says no, just curiosity, she may have already checked for it and i just don't understand the bloodwork properly. i know she already tested my response to cortisol but to my understanding that's only congenital adrenal hyperplasia and i could have noncongenital which would only show on that specific test.

-i need to figure out what is going on with my blood sugar and causing these crashes. i genuinely don't know if this is a new issue caused by metformin lowering my blood sugar or if it's been a lifelong thing and i am only just now figuring it out because a doctor told me what my random spells of dizziness and nausea were instead of brushing them off for the first time.

-if it's not the medication i need to know if my insulin resistance is getting worse and if that's causing it, and what i can do to mitigate it if it does. she'll be testing me for diabetes like always anyway, and she'll probably refer me to a nutritionist or talk to me about adding another medication if she finds that A1C isn't decreasing anymore

-i never got an ultrasound and i should probably pony up and do it already to check if i have anything in my fucked up reproductive system that could kill me. specifically want to ask if they can check for uterine fibroids since i match the symptoms almost exactly and it would help explain why i had abnormally heavy periods instead of skipping them like most people with PCOS do. obviously they'll check for cystic ovaries as well.

-i need to know exactly how bad things are potentially going to get wrt hormone access for me, and if i need to do anything to prevent medical issues if i do need to stop taking testosterone entirely

-i've had high levels of white blood cells on blood tests for like, a year now. they're not cancer-high but it's still weird. i'm very prone to asymptomatic infections though so i could just happen to be sick with an minor ear infection or UTI every time.

-if the lawyer is there i want to ask if it's a bad idea to continue with my name change or not

-i need a prescription for testing strips for my blood sugar monitor bc they're really expensive, also would be useful to have glucose pills or powder since i get nauseous during crashes and can't really eat

i've been having So Many issues since the last appointment and it's really frustrating because the last one she basically said it looks like I'm doing really well and my insulin resistance is under control and we stepped down the frequency of my appointments and then like three months later I started getting really bad blood sugar crashes. So I hope I can figure out what's causing it and get it addressed.