Adam Easy Wishes Posted April 4, 2018 Report Share Posted April 4, 2018 Regale me with stories of when you (or someone you know) have burst your/their ear drum, how it happened, and how you/they obviously made a full, unhindered recovery (just in time for your/their wedding of course...). (Yes, I burst my ear drum and damaged my ear canal on my stag weekend by forcing a leg of my glasses in there by mistake when I was pulling on the head of a monkey suit. Obviously.) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted April 4, 2018 Report Share Posted April 4, 2018 I'm glad to say I have never done this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Broonbreed Posted April 4, 2018 Report Share Posted April 4, 2018 That sounds awful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ca_gere Posted April 4, 2018 Report Share Posted April 4, 2018 1 hour ago, James Broonbreed said: That sounds awful. don't rub it in Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alkaline Posted April 4, 2018 Report Share Posted April 4, 2018 My oldest daughter had a perforated eardrum caused by a cold. It took a few days (certainly less than a week) but she got the hearing back and there’s been no lasting damage. She is more susceptible to it happening again now though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Broonbreed Posted April 4, 2018 Report Share Posted April 4, 2018 When I have ear troubles, I consult the auricle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HateEvent Posted April 5, 2018 Report Share Posted April 5, 2018 A mate of mine burst his eardrum going down a flume and into the water at the Dundee Olympia pools. ...I don’t have much more than that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVB Posted April 5, 2018 Report Share Posted April 5, 2018 18 hours ago, James Broonbreed said: That sounds awful. you misspelled hilarious! on a side note, a burst ear drum on a stagger isnt too bad, at lease you didnt end up with hearing Aids Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottyboy Posted April 5, 2018 Report Share Posted April 5, 2018 Oh, I got a legit one. And turns out it's probably TL:(DR), so skip to the bottom if you don't care for an anecdote. When I was studying in Aberdeen, I got into a drunken brawl with my flatmate. We'd been needling each other all night (at some house party), and it escalated all the while under the pretence of a bit-o-banter, as UK humour can. Back at the flat, I and a few other guys were mocking him trying to play his favourite online game smashed, as he kept dying and pulling hilarious faces and noises. He then warned me specifically (as opposed to the other guys) to stop and stay out of his room. I thought he was "joking" again, and walked into his room laughing next time he died. He then shoved me and, he being genuinely twice my weight (mass) at the time, I went flying through his door onto my back. Red mist finally triggered, I got up, nutted him and punched him enough times to make his face look different for a bit (next day he said "all right", completely naturally, with a few bruises and I felt like cringing in embarrassment more than anything). On the other hand, after he got a grip (both figuratively and literally) on me, he stopped me punching him and physically took me into my own room and threw me into the wall. Can't remember if he just left it, or if it was broken up by the other guys. One way or another it got broken up, but I came back yelling for more after he gave some threat, or whatever it was. At this point he slapped me around the head, and unbeknownst to him my ears started ringing, and I felt like I was underwater. His slap perforated an eardrum. So with the other friends trying to break it up, I though let's call it a draw. Main point: in a few days I went to see a doctor who was looking for any infections. Nothing to do with the above: I was supposed to start a particular medicine course, and couldn't start it before I it was determined that I wasn't ill (I mean in terms of infections, excluding say, blows to the head. He asked if I had any ENT problems recently, which I did. But I told the guy, yes, I'd been feeling weird in 1 ear for a few days, but my guess was that I'd been playing football, got elbowed, maybe started then. Eventually an x-ray really did turn up an (asymptomatic, I guess) chest infection, and the doctor told me that likely this had gone up to the ENT and caused the perforated eardrum (cause even his student found that right away), and that I'd probably falsely attributed getting hit in the head as the cause. But before the x-ray, he told me of a patient whose girlfriend had slapped him, covering the ear and forcing trapped air into piercing his eardrum. TL;DR: I had one (probably minimal though, not sure) and it healed itself, but after, I dunno, a few weeks? After that it was fine. I did notice that I had tinnitus after this, but I now know that I suffer it in both ears, and that the perforated eardrum in one can't have caused it (just noticed it then). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cabbage Posted April 25, 2018 Report Share Posted April 25, 2018 (edited) I burst an ear drum when I was 4 or 5, I don't remember it happening or how I did it, but apparently I cried a lot. Healed up and I didn't suffer any lasting damage though. I'm sure you'll make a full recovery! Edited April 25, 2018 by Cabbage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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