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GRRRRR!
I had grommits put in my ears on Friday. I was told to ring ENT if there were any problems. Fast forward to today, my inner ears itch like hell, and there is clear fluid oozing from them! My hearing feels like I am underwater.
Rang ENT, to be told by a secretary that this is the grommits working. NO IT FECKING ISNT! They are meant to drain internally, not out of my god damned eardrums and down my neck!
This is my 3rd set, and it is not fecking normal to want to stick a knitting needle in your ear and scratch your fecking brains out! And it is not fecking normal for your hair to be encrusted to your head!!!!!!!!!!!!
I already have a pulled neck muscle which hurts from ear to arm, so bad that I need Diazepam to sleep. I feel like absolute CRAP and Ive had enough now. This year has been one fecking thing after another!
Can someone PLEASE cut me a break?????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh dear, I don't even know what a grommit is......just bumping this up so you get some more useful replies.

penultimate... what?

You mean the second to last time you can have grommits?

Sorry, family joke which has become common speech round here. Possibly from Blackadder?!

Do you know what penultimate means?

Sounds absolutely shit, ring them back. Don't be fobbed off. You poor soul, it must get better..

Ahhhh, I see!
So, will the ent people see you to check the grommits soon?

I thought that grommets were put in the eardrum to release repeated fluid build up from the inner ear, behind the eardrum. Therefore the fluid shouldn't drain internally, surely the infection should be taken away from the body not absorbed back inside?

I see!
Ear problems are rough, as a kid I always had infections. And had grommits twice. I still have one - rammed through my eardrum - which is nice.

That sounds awful Saggy, can you keep calling until you speak to someone else? Or get on to your GP?

Ear problems are awful, and I know the knitting needle feeling well.

Secretary should absolutely NOT be giving medical advice/opinions like this. Can you see your GP?

Yes. I know what Penultimate means. I was being funny! <<sigh>>
Grommits are put in your eardrum to allow air in/out and equalise the pressure, allowing built up fluid to drain down the eustacian canal. Fluid is not meant to come out of your ears!

Im waiting for ENT doctor to call back, but am not holding out much hope. Have an app at the gp with the nurse later. It was all I could get.

It was funny. I love that Blackadder episode.

And the replies remind me of that joke letter, where a woman writes to a problem page agony uncle to say that because her car broke down, she went home unexpectedly and found her husband in bed with another woman and what should she do. And the advise focuses completely on how to fix her car. Completely missing the point.

Hope you have had your call back by now and feel better soon.

Still no call. <<annoyed>>

Cancel the nurse! Off to ENT! Talk about 11th hour!

Good luck Saggy, I hope they figure it out.

And that receptionist should be shot. Or asked when she got her medical degree.

And I got the joke.

How are you feeling now?

SAGGY! IS EVERYTHING OK?

Shouting because I thought she might be having trouble hearing.

They sound infected do you have a temperature

Sorry, been marketeering today and I've used all my data roaming! I'm ok. I popped into the hospital and a dr looked in my ears. They're very slightly pink bit generally ok. not convinced myself but there you go! The crippling pain in my neck was probably caused by a muscle being pulled when they shifted me about under GA. so that's ok as well! I've fished out the ear drops which I was given last week and had completed the course of and are sticking them in. My neck is on serious amounts of ibuprofen. So no, I'm not really ok, but nobody seems to care so I'm just getting on with it!