So I went to the walkin clinic at lunch. My lovely cold has nothing to do with my very sore ear. Apparently I have a bad case of swimmers ear in my left ear. It has been bugging me for a while which is why I use an ear plug in it. The cold just made it feel worse. Apparently I have had it for a while and let it go way to long. So I have some strong ear drop antibiotics and NO SWIMMING FOR A WEEK. Then once back in the pool I am to use an ear plug.
I am soooooooooooo disapointed :violin:. My ear is very sore, I am not feeling well with the cold and I am just in a whiny cranky pathetic mood. I feel bad for missing a week of swimming. What will I do with all that extra sleep?
Has anyone else had a bad case of swimmers ear?:sad:
Katie
Katie,
Thirty years ago, when I was 15 and lived in Northern California, some friends asked me to go camping with them and they were leaving the weekend of summer league finals (I had the league record for 100 *** back then, so I could NOT miss the meet). Sunday after the meet was finished, my parents drove me up to a National Park near Lake Tahoe so I could spend the week with my friends and one of their parents. We had a blast, hiking around the woods and diving off of high boulders into a clear cold creek near the campsite. On the way home, driving down the mountian back to Sacramento, everyone kept saying 'my ear popped'. Mine usually did too while taking that drive, but this time everyone's ears popped but mine. I woke up that night (at home) around 2:30 in the morning with the most excruciating pain I have ever felt to this day:cane:. After I got on antibiotics later that morning, I slept for three days. It was awful. We thought I had lost all hearing in one of my ears, but they were both infected.
I had been able to avoid swimmers ear since then until Nationals at the Woodlands this year. My outer ear felt like it had a pimple in it on Saturday night. I went home after my events on Sunday, and by Monday I went to the Dr and another ear infection. Not near as painful as the one during my teen years, but I did not feel good (went home from work early Monday). Dr. said no swimming, but I used ear plugs and drops when I got out (I probably should not have swam, but I only swim three days a week and needed my 'fix' badly).
I hope you heal quickly! Earaches are no fun and neither is no swimming. :fish2:
Katie,
Thirty years ago, when I was 15 and lived in Northern California, some friends asked me to go camping with them and they were leaving the weekend of summer league finals (I had the league record for 100 *** back then, so I could NOT miss the meet). Sunday after the meet was finished, my parents drove me up to a National Park near Lake Tahoe so I could spend the week with my friends and one of their parents. We had a blast, hiking around the woods and diving off of high boulders into a clear cold creek near the campsite. On the way home, driving down the mountian back to Sacramento, everyone kept saying 'my ear popped'. Mine usually did too while taking that drive, but this time everyone's ears popped but mine. I woke up that night (at home) around 2:30 in the morning with the most excruciating pain I have ever felt to this day:cane:. After I got on antibiotics later that morning, I slept for three days. It was awful. We thought I had lost all hearing in one of my ears, but they were both infected.
I had been able to avoid swimmers ear since then until Nationals at the Woodlands this year. My outer ear felt like it had a pimple in it on Saturday night. I went home after my events on Sunday, and by Monday I went to the Dr and another ear infection. Not near as painful as the one during my teen years, but I did not feel good (went home from work early Monday). Dr. said no swimming, but I used ear plugs and drops when I got out (I probably should not have swam, but I only swim three days a week and needed my 'fix' badly).
I hope you heal quickly! Earaches are no fun and neither is no swimming. :fish2:
