Last Thursday I went to my ENT, who knows I have severe tinnitus in both
ears, and he removed wax from my eardrum. After removing the wax, he went
to his chair and I complained of feeling something in my ear. He said
something about it being blood and came over to look inside. He then
brought over a suction device and stuck in my ear for about 10-15 seconds.
When he took it out I complained it was very noisy. After a brief time he
put the suction device back in my ear.
The result is I now have a new loud sound in that ear. I went to my family
doctor about an hour or so after the ENT. She looked in my ear. I told her
my tinnitus is worse. She wrote down on my chart: Clot on tympanic
membrane.
So, he scratched/cut my eardrum and my tinnitus is worse. Did he do
something wrong? Did he deviate from standard medical practice?
francispoon - 13 Jan 2004 11:20 GMT
> Last Thursday I went to my ENT, who knows I have severe tinnitus in both
> ears, and he removed wax from my eardrum. After removing the wax, he went
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> So, he scratched/cut my eardrum and my tinnitus is worse. Did he do
> something wrong? Did he deviate from standard medical practice?
I am no ENT doctor but I would go and have a consultation (only) with
*another* ENT, hopefully in a public hospital where the motive is not
profit.
FP