Max, Can You Earmuff For Me?
I’m sick. AGAIN. My nose is doing that fun thing where it runs down your face but is totally stuffed up, and when you blow nothing comes out. Yesterday afternoon my ears started hurting. Not a big deal for me when I have a sinus infection. I’m always popping my ears through them. This time, however, my ears are totally stuffed and I can’t pop them. They’re too blocked up. I spent most of yesterday looking like I had tourettes because I was opening my jaw really wide (which sometimes pops my ears) over and over again. I held and blew out my nose until I was in tears and my face was so red it looked like an angry cartoon character, but to no avail. I am hearing things warped. I can barely hear my keyboard as I type, and I don’t have a quiet keyboard. I can’t tell if I’m whispering or shouting because I’m hearing my voice all inside my head. It’s like I have earmuffs on, but I lost the band that holds the muffs (heh) and the gods decided I should hold them on with a vice grip instead. I’m taking the second round of antibiotics my doctor gave me before my cruise, but they’re not working, and as of last night, I had a fever.
I’m just a barrel of sunshine (hahahah! I totally just typed that as sunshite, which might be more accurate) today.
Posted by amy t.
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If your antibiotics aren’t working, your doctor should really do a nasal culture to see what type of crud you’ve got and what it’s resistant to. Sometimes the same antibiotic that’s always worked for you will just stop working if it’s a really nasty infection. Take it from someone who works for ENT docs. 
And if your primary doc won’t help you, try to get into an ENT specialist near you. They’re much more attentive. I’d tell you to come see my docs, but we aren’t officially open b/c we’re building a new office. Not to mention that it’s in Pearland.