Just spoke with the Doctor asked If I think its ear wax build up to come in and he will clean again. Raised concern about repeated cleaning will just make my hearing worse to this he confirmed repeated cleaning will not cause any damage and to keep an eye on as may be snot etc at the back end that’s blocking it up. Stated again this keeps coming back and back and back. Reply keep an eye on it. How does anyone get help these days
Craig For ear wax... try a drop of any oil (olive oil, or mineral oil) in each ear daily to keep the wax liquid and not getting impacted. In canada there’s a prescription oil for this called Cerumol. To keep Eustacian tubes clear... saline nasal spray, and humidifiers. If you have allergies they might prescribe a steroid nose spray. Some people find that being dairy free keeps the sinuses and eustacian tube clearer, less mucus. If your ENT hasn’t /doesn’t suggest any of these things, yeah, it’s probably time to move on. Have you seen your family physician on this? I wouldn’t expect them to know too much about Menieres, but they’d know about ear wax and blocked eustacian tubes. And probably have more empathy and the ability to walk through this with you. (Just my bias perhaps ... I’m a retired family doc)
Hi AnneT Thank you for your message My ENT did not suggest any of these! I have been using olive oil drops for the past 18 months to no aval. My ears stink when I use it. ENT advised to no longer use olive oil. No allergies I am aware. Strange 6 years or so ago I was prescrided saline nasal spray and a steroid one which completely blocked up my ears tooks months to sort out. Ref Family physician moved town 4 years ago new Doctors are not the best, difficulty in seeing my doctor or any doctor for that matter as you can only phone in the morning to see one of them. So no consistent approach before going private my advise when complaining about my ears was there is wax in the ears so use olive drops, or when there is no wax showing and ears still feel blocked (after being cleaned) keep using the drops then come back in a couple of weeks, At that point I see a different doctor who reconfirms the above for about a year I wanted to go private through my work to look into this and the doctors would not support this, then when my ear got worse they wanted to refer me! to which I replied been trying to do this for a year as I know its not right. Doc confirmed they would never state this I then reminded him he was the last Doctor I saw and he stated it!, this all very frustrating, . So yes I really need to change surgery's. .If you have allergies they might prescribe a steroid nose spray. Some people find that being dairy free keeps the sinuses and eustacian tube clearer, less mucus. Interesting I will try this. I am seeing my regular Doctor on Monday to get them to check my ears again and to check if I have any vitamins deficiencies. Again thank you x