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Post by Jason on Mar 14, 2010 23:08:45 GMT -5
I hate to ask about here, but I'm pretty scared to look up anywhere else. For the past few years or so, I've had this swooshing noise in my ear, usually when I bend down. I passed it off as ear wax but I'm not incredibly sure. The back of my ear gets hot and it kinda goes down to the back of my neck. I'm reading all sorts of things from ear wax to blood pressure to tumors. I'm pretty worried about it, does anybody here know what the problem is?
I'm scared to go to the doctor as I don't want to worry my family. Plus she'll probably send me to the hospital for scans, etc.
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Post by Maidpool w/ Cleaning Action on Mar 14, 2010 23:11:50 GMT -5
You should be more worried about NOT going to the doctor honestly. The doctor isn't going to tell you anything that you don't have so it's not the doctor itself that should worry you.
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Post by Viva on Mar 14, 2010 23:12:10 GMT -5
"I have an ailment that could potentially be life threatening, and I'm asking complete strangers what's wrong, but a professional? Nah."
DUDE! Go to the doctor! You crazy guy! Haha. Seriously, you should get it checked out. Even if someone here knew what it was with like a 90 percent certainty, the fact that it could be blood pressure or a tumor, do you really want to sweep that crap under the rug? That's some serious stuff, man.
Good luck. <3
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Mar 15, 2010 0:02:59 GMT -5
Could be high blood pressure.
Could be low blood pressure.
Could be inverted blood pressure.
Could be brainwhistle.
Could be mind of mencia.
Don't ask me, I'm a wrestling fan. Ask a DOCTOR! They are trained to answer these kind of questions!
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Post by Jason on Mar 15, 2010 0:05:37 GMT -5
I'm scared of worrying my family though. I'm a health freak and I have a habit of going with the worst possible solution. Should I get like ear drops and see if they work, first?
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Post by Jason Todd Grisham on Mar 15, 2010 0:06:55 GMT -5
I'm not a doctor, and I don't play one on TV, but if you've waited the past few years or so and it hasn't gotten worse, then I don't see how trying some ear drops for a week or so could hurt that much other than potentially give you peace of mind.
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Post by The Line on Mar 15, 2010 0:31:13 GMT -5
You should be more worried about NOT going to the doctor honestly. The doctor isn't going to tell you anything that you don't have so it's not the doctor itself that should worry you. Pretty much this. Either you have something, and not knowing about it could possibly be causing your body some harm, or you have nothing and you're putting your body through undue stress by worrying about it. Either way, yeah, go see a doctor. |
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Post by Jason on Mar 15, 2010 0:45:27 GMT -5
I looked it up and some people said the doctor diagnosed them with nothing. Also this is most likely a problem with my ear, right? I only have it in one ear too, I think. So chances are, it's a problem with my EAR and not anything else. If it was a problem with my heart or something, I'd feel it. I don't have any pains, I don't feel sick. I just thought that the swooshing noise wasn't that normal, and that I check it out.
I think it's ear wax, it makes the most sense. If it was blood pressure, I would probably feel sleepy all the time or something. I don't have any of those problems, it's literally just my ear and when I bend down. Not all the time either, sometimes I will bend down and it won't happen. Today, I was putting something in my TV and it wouldn't go in, so I was bending down for about a minute or so, and you can tell, it was pissing me off then. Sometimes it comes when I bend down too long or too sudden, sometimes I don't have it when I bend down though.
I'm not overly stressed about it, I admit, looking up things online and in books isn't the best idea. A professional told me that, but I just couldn't help it.
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Post by The Line on Mar 15, 2010 0:49:02 GMT -5
still, go to the doctor. Its not like a electronics or software issue where something is mass-produced so there is one fix-all thing. People are unique. Two people can have 100% identical seeming symptoms but have two completely different ailments. Odds are it is nothing, but wouldn't you rather hear that from someone who had to suffer through years of medical school instead of someone who may or may not have been wearing pants?
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Post by Maidpool w/ Cleaning Action on Mar 15, 2010 0:49:58 GMT -5
Dude, I 99.9% garuntee you everyone here is going to say "go to the Doctor". You asked what you should do and the fact is none of us know because we aren't doctors. Hence all of our advice is going to be "Go to the Doctor" no matter what you look up.
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Post by The Line on Mar 15, 2010 0:54:55 GMT -5
Dude, I 99.9% garuntee you everyone here is going to say "go to the Doctor". You asked what you should do and the fact is none of us know because we aren't doctors. Hence all of our advice is going to be "Go to the Doctor" no matter what you look up. more or less(I promise I'll quit being your echo...eventually) |
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Post by Jason on Mar 15, 2010 1:21:16 GMT -5
Yeah, I suppose you're right. Everyone is different, even if somebody did have it, maybe mine was different, or maybe it's not. It's best to know for sure. I'll go get the ear drops, see if they work and if not, I'll go to the doctor. I really think it's a problem with my ear though.
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Post by Throwback on Mar 15, 2010 1:56:55 GMT -5
Fact over 90% of people that have suffered from a brain aneurysm never even knew they had a problem.
over 30,000 people in the United States will have an aneurysm that hemorrhages each year. Out of that 30,000, 10 to 15 percent will die before ever making it to the hospital, and 50 percent will die within 30 days.
GO TO THE F****ING DOCTOR!!!!!! is it better to get checked and have nothing, or have something and not get checked? I understand you don't want your parents to worry. But they'll worry more once it's to late to do anything.
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Post by Jason on Mar 15, 2010 2:06:26 GMT -5
Fact over 90% of people that have suffered from a brain aneurysm never even knew they had a problem. over 30,000 people in the United States will have an aneurysm that hemorrhages each year. Out of that 30,000, 10 to 15 percent will die before ever making it to the hospital, and 50 percent will die within 30 days. GO TO THE F****ING DOCTOR!!!!!! is it better to get checked and have nothing, or have something and not get checked? I understand you don't want your parents to worry. But they'll worry more once it's to late to do anything. You are aware I've had this for a few years right? I'd be dead by now if I had that. |
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Post by Throwback on Mar 15, 2010 2:25:50 GMT -5
Fact over 90% of people that have suffered from a brain aneurysm never even knew they had a problem. over 30,000 people in the United States will have an aneurysm that hemorrhages each year. Out of that 30,000, 10 to 15 percent will die before ever making it to the hospital, and 50 percent will die within 30 days. GO TO THE F****ING DOCTOR!!!!!! is it better to get checked and have nothing, or have something and not get checked? I understand you don't want your parents to worry. But they'll worry more once it's to late to do anything. You are aware I've had this for a few years right? I'd be dead by now if I had that. You can have a Cerebral aneurysm for years and not have it rupture. That's why the percentage of people not knowing they had a problem is so high. symptoms include: Before a larger aneurysm ruptures, the individual may experience such symptoms as a sudden and unusually severe headache, nausea, vision impairment, vomiting, and loss of consciousness, or the individual may be asymptomatic, experiencing no symptoms at all.Earl hebner suffered from one the saturday before WM XIV. He said he was playing cards and feeling fine when it ruptured. When it did rupture he thought one of the boys slapped him in the back of the neck. It wasn't until he got to his hotel room and Dave Hebner called an ambulance before Earl even knew what was going on. |
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Post by jobsquad on Mar 15, 2010 2:31:02 GMT -5
Dude, I 99.9% garuntee you everyone here is going to say "go to the Doctor". You asked what you should do and the fact is none of us know because we aren't doctors. Hence all of our advice is going to be "Go to the Doctor" no matter what you look up. . I hope everything works out well enough for you. Maybe the doctor will say, "It's not a TUMAH!" lol. |
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Mar 15, 2010 2:32:00 GMT -5
I believe and I am no doctor, but I believe, a swooshing noise is symptomatic of a punctured ear drum. I suppose you use Q-Tips?
Me too. You're doctor will say not to.
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Post by Jason on Mar 15, 2010 12:46:01 GMT -5
No q-tips. I don't take care of my ears at all, honestly. I never had them drained or anything, again... I can almost gaurantee its not a tumor, I have NONE of those symptoms. I'm not sick, I don't even have pains in my neck and ear, it just gets hot when I bend down and I hear a swooshing sound. I'm about to try some olive oil now.
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Post by Psy on Mar 15, 2010 12:58:05 GMT -5
Dude.
GO
TO
THE
DOCTOR.
I don't know how much more plainly it can be said. You said you don't want to worry your family? I guarantee they'll be less worried to find out it's nothing than they would be happy to say, "He knew about it for a long time, but never got it checked out," in an elegy.
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Post by aka Cthulhu on Mar 15, 2010 13:02:04 GMT -5
Don't go to the doctor.
See I'm using reverse psychology.
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