I would have thought the pain with rupturing an eardrum would be immediate, but I would get it checked out considering the circumstances.
I would have thought the pain with rupturing an eardrum would be immediate, but I would get it checked out considering the circumstances.
I had an in person consultation yesterday where I was prescribed some ear drops with follow up in a week, because the doc wasn't sure it actually was a middle ear infection, but I stopped taking them as soon as I thought I might have a rupture. Got a phone consultation tomorrow to ask about next steps.
Usually the pain improves if it's a middle ear infection and the eardrum ruptures because it relieves the pressure.
The pressure has definitely gone down, but it's still at like 80% of the pain level from before.
Got antibiotics and Tramadol, so I'm all set now.
Tramadol
That's a wild choice of a painkiller.
She just really wanted me to cut down on the 3200mg of Ibuprofen I had been taking for the past almost two days. I had oxy prescribed 8 years ago and kind of hated the effect, this is very similar, but I can't say I feel like it affects the actual pain in any significant way.Originally Posted by randomlegend
Tramadol
That's a wild choice of a painkiller.
Found this which was interesting:
https://first10em.com/tramadol/
Tramadol is an opioid, but it does not bind directly to opioid receptors (or, at least, it binds so weakly that it might as well not bind at all). Its opioid action is the result of a metabolite (O-desmethyltramadol if you really wanted to know), which means, much like codeine, it requires metabolism through the P450 enzymes before it starts working. That is a problem. A significant portion of the population (approximately 3-10% in Caucasians) has no activity at the necessary enzyme (CYP2D6). Therefore, you are prescribing a pain medication that provides no pain relief for some of your patients.
There's loads of stuff like that in medicine which everyone just kind of pretends doesn't exist.
Tested positive for covid. Great.
Why did you test for it in the first place?
I'm also curious about that, and how you'd even go about it now.
Does he still work with the special kids? Presumably it's part of the work.
I'm certain I've had it in the last 2-3 weeks but who cares.
Somebody I work with has been off with 'long covid' since July. Around the same time somebody else went for a knee replacement, and somebody else had a brain tumour discovered, so the race is on to beat them two back.
I felt rubbish and more just wondered if it was that. My parents have tests so I used one.
It’s also easier to tell work (yes, I still work with SEN children) that I’ve got covid and feel rubbish than to be off with ‘a cold’
I think I’ve got it too but I’ve got something I want to go to this morning so will test later.
(I get tests free from work.)
I'm a twit
That's some top tier retardation.
I didn't know testing was still a thing. It's like a different lifetime to me now. I did a load of PCRs in the early, early days when our job never shut down because we were deemed essential work (lol, although flying round on empty roads with the letter to say I was allowed out all day was fun), then a couple more in 2021 when we went to Hamburg for my stag do. I've never actually done one of those rapid tests.
Having said that, I've come into work this morning and a fella is WFH because he has it. First I've heard of a positive test here since last year.
Well it’s not really a concern now is it? All thefat invalidslow hanging fruit has already been abolished.
I'm a twit
As a regular observer of knackered people, I can assure you low-hanging fruit has merely been replaced by other low-hanging fruit.
Agreed.
The retardation comes from the middle ground you're taking.
Either crack on and don't bother testing like everyone else is, or test now and don't go to whatever this thing is if you're positive.
I don’t have it anyway, stop flapping. Back to work.
I'm a twit
Super spread champion.
Okay now I’m sure I have it. My bones feel like they’ve been abused.
Alas, I’ve no tests.
I'm a twit
Ill again, Baz. Fucking hell mate
Aids nailed on.
Pretty sure last months Novid was the first time I’d been ill this year. AG1 keeps me going.
Miserable and shattered, sure, rarely ill.
I'm a twit
My 4 year old son fell over and smashed/sliced his forehead open today, which was fairly horrifying, but that head glue stuff they use instead of what would presumably have been stitches in the past isn't half amazing.
it was on a ferry and there was an A&E paediatrician or some such onboard with their own head glue kit and all, which was, frankly, an absolute miracle.
So much blood.
That glue is the same stuff as superglue.
Edit: oh boo that's not quite as true as I thought it was. They used to be exactly the same but now, whilst they are both cyanoacrylate adhesives, wound closure glue does have some differences to bog standard superglue.
I really should double-check things before I post them rather than after but whatever.
Last edited by randomlegend; 23-10-2023 at 07:15 PM.
I've got the rona. Was away with my extended family last week and we all got ill towards the end. Mum tested today and it was positive which prompted me to fork out two quid for a single lat flow. Nobody else seems to be testing positive though.
I would never have thought to test normally. Presumably THE FIGURES are massive. Just a cold tho innit.
Get vaccinated, please.
It did come with the warning from the lady doing it that anything touching it for 5 minutes after going on would also be stuck to it, so it sounded like superglue.
Incredible sticking power though. Looked like an extra eyehole and then stick, stick, push it together and it looks like a scratch, albeit a nasty one.
Trying to pass it off as really good halloween make up.
My family have somehow managed the impossible. 2 flights and 7 days at an all inclusive with a packed out buffet. No illness at all. No covid. No Noro. Not even a sniffle.
It can only be safe to assume that we have now had every virus in the world and we have completed the immunity collection.
*Bar the HIV and Ebola Shineys.
I started feeling slightly ropey from Wednesday night, which I assumed was a cold from my mother looking after my brother's kids, and I was getting better and almost fine until a sore throat joined the fray yesterday. It's only the bovid. In 2023. Embarrassing.
Testing for it is the embarrassing bit.
Truly shameful behaviour.
Is that professor still going mental over it?
A few professors still wear masks around here, yes. All day long. Some even outside.
And many still demand their students wear masks in class, including everyone in my wife's department (but her, of course).
I have to say I am sat here wondering why I tested for it. Okay, I can wring a few days extra skive out of it; but if it drags on I'll be seething.
Destined for long covid.
Even I don't test for it.
All the ADHD medication has run out except crazy doses. The beauty of this is my particular one can't be modified because it comes in a glass, shatter-proof pill casing to prevent people from snorting it lol. So I'm fucked.
I actually came off it because I was fed up of the side effects and want to go back on it because I can't control my symptoms. I am super creative and innovative off them but I have no drive and motivation.
Maybe I need some, though it's possible I'm just a lazy twat.
Depends if you actually want to do whatever it is you're trying to do or not.
I had a bit of a sore throat at the start of the week, now I definitely have a cold
Just fainted for, I believe, the first time in my life.
I was in my bathroom and had just taken a shit. Mid-wiping my back completely tensed up and it was painful as fuck, tried stretching it out a bit which made it worse and then I woke up on the floor.
Hole in the bathroom door due to my foot and I had dislodged the shower door. Felt really nauseous upon regaining consciousness too.
Edit: Right knee is also bleeding it seems.
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You took a shit so big you passed out? Respect.
Sounds like a scene from Trainspotting.
Albeit with a lot less drugs.
But there were some drugs?
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