Doctors can be wrong !

So happy to hear this. Always get a second opinion! And a good lesson for all of us.

Congratulations! Really great hear your situation is getting better.

Exactly!

Doctors really can be wrong. 5 years ago one was absolutely sure that I’m just an alcolholic or a junkie. Only after countless laboratory tests (wher no traces of excessive alcohol usage or narcotics was found) he admitted I could be seriosly depressed.

One decided my father had dementia and there’s nothing he can do. Another one found out he only had too much pressure in his brain. Situation was fixed with simple operation but it took 2 horrible years because this false first diagnosis.

true indeed +1 for this :bulb:

I’m really happy for you. Thanks for sharing such positive message.

Wife of a dear friend complained of back pain and trouble breathing. Doctor 1 sent her to a chiropractor. Doctor 2 said it was because of her smoking and she had emphysema sent her home with an oxygen tank. Doctor 3 did a full body cat scan and immediately admitted her to ICU. That was on a Friday. On Monday they told her she had brain tumors. Tuesday they said it’s terminal. She died on Friday. This happened last month. My friend is shattered.

Sending much Aloha!
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I have a similar story, albeit less serious and dramatic. A couple of years ago, I started noticing a dip in high frequency perception on my left ear. Also, I had a ringing (tinnitus), but only on that ear. My general practitioner couldn’t figure it out and I went to see a specialist. It turned out it was just excess cerumen (ear wax) that had lodged deep into the ear canal (I know, ewwww…) A 2-hour operation with a very scary-looking tool tipped with a micro-camera was needed (kinda similar to what goes into your butt when you have a colonoscopy, but smaller), but as soon as the “plug” was removed, my hearing was back to perfect. I feel like I dodged a bullet.

Great news there G!- string up that Doctor! :angry:

Once or twice a year, usually Nov.-Jan. my hearing gets severally compromised by the same thing as papi61, and it takes days or even weeks of peroxide to clear them out to where I can hear normal again instead of less than half of what’s normal.

Had them flushed 3 different times throughout my life, but I’m told that’s not always the best idea.

Thanks for sharing the story & tip - will keep it handy for next time.


Reminds me of that old joke:

  • Doctor gave a man 6 months to live.
  • When the man said he couldn’t pay his Doctor bill, the Doctor gave him 6 more months. :laughing:

Doctor gave a man 6 months to live.

  • When the man said he couldn’t pay his Doctor bill, the Doctor gave him 6 more months. > :laughing:

:laughing: :laughing: a good one

Brings to mind one more:

I rushed in and asked, “Doctor Doctor, what’s wrong with me?”

He answered, “Well…you’re obviously an idiot!”

I paused for a moment and then suggested, “Hmmm…Perhaps I should get a second opinion.”

He replied, "Very well then.

You’re f.u.c.k.i.n’ ugly too!!" :laughing:

mmmmwwwahahHAHA! I like that one! I wonder what’s wrong with me?

:open_mouth:

That’s good news, G-string! :smiley:


… and sad news Ted… :cry:

Very sad news Surfer indeed , the fella upstairs certainly deals an evil hand at times and when something like that happens it makes you take stock of what you have and makes you realise just how short life is .

Just being able to hear those tiny little birds again brings a big smile to my face :wink:
The only reason I never tried cleaning my ear was because of the advice of the doctor saying they were clear , I feel like pinning him down and filling his ears with poxy resin :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: no im not bitter and twisted about it :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: YET :wink:

Don’t forget to put the video of it on Youtube! :laughing:

This is confiscated. Small niggle of mine. Musicians advising everyone to get earplugs. My view is that why cripple your ears while they are working as they should. Let them cripple normally. If you’re going to go deaf you will and if not, you’re not. There’s exceptions like factories with constant 112dbs for 10 hours a day but music? You take breaks, there’s quiet bits, you talk to each other a bit in rehearsal. Real life. Let life put the earplugs in LATER. Wax, cilia damage whatever. The only musician of note who went deaf was Beethoven and they keep shoving him in your face whenever they want to sell earplugs. Who else…? I ask. Answer “DUH!”

Pete Townsend.

G-string, great news…was your original diagnosis neurological in nature or did your doctor fail to identify plugged ear canals? Regardless, glad to know your better off now. “…you don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone”

Funny… :laughing:

uhh … replace musicians advise with doctors advise and you’ll be more accurate. My take is I’ll listen to hearing specialists over random forum poster on an audio forum. It’s a medical fact that even short duration, high volume noise can have long term affect on hearing. Like everything biological, your genetics will determine how much and to what level it will affect you, but it will affect you.

I’ll bet Pete Townshend wishes he wore some earplugs…