To want them to fit the grommets now not in ten months?

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DS is 26 months and has had back to back ear infections since September and has very limited speech. About 10 words max, poorly pronounced.

He has glue ear which hasn't improved since Sept. We have also been told that his hearing is poor after being tested twice now.

But the specialist still won't do the op until much later in the year, even though his gut feel is that DS will need grommets.

He struggles to hear us properly sometimes, nursery also agree that they find it difficult to get his attention because he can't hear.

But don't worry he's on his 10th round of antibiotics now but they're "not that bad" and don't worry about the fact his speech is pretty much non existent because they "catch up eventually".

I'm sick of it, sick of seeing my little boy suffer, every night he wakes screaming because his ears are so sore, he's becoming shy and seems frustrated when around other kids who are all much further ahead with their speech than him.

I'm loosing patience now and I don't know what else to do. Anyone else had experience of this?

Can you afford to go private? My DD got grommets age 18 months. She had two sets. When she was older (4) she also got her tonsils and adenoids out. Since that day she has never been sick again.

DD started with ear infections at under a year and was on antibiotics pretty much monthly from then, between October and March every year until finally at the age of 5.5, after countless ENT appointments, they decided to give her grommets. She's now almost 9 and has only had one ear infection since then but it was horrendous to watch her suffer for almost 5 years before anything was done.