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Water in ear causing bacterial infection - help!

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Chez06 · 25/08/2026 10:29

I’m at my wits end.
I was abroad 10 days ago and jumped into deep sea which put water behind my ear drums and one ear got a bacterial infection. I’ve since been on 2 antibiotics, and although the pain is mostly better, the fullness and pressure and lack of hearing is still just the same. Has anyone got experience of this? (Not via a virus as that takes a different time to clear.)
Back to the doctors tomorrow, but I’d already been told if these antibiotics don’t work it will be an ent referral. I can’t go on like this though! I’m not even leaving the house! 😩

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Happytaytos · 25/08/2026 18:31

It's likely to need far longer to heal to be honest.

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