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  1. In my experience, you should never trust the opinion of an urgent care physician. They have misdiagnosed more things than they have gotten right for me. I had a severly broken wrist once, and the urgent care doctor missed it in the x-ray, and instead told me to start moving it around until it felt better. It ended needing bone-graft surgery. Even specialists can be seriously wrong. I was diagnosed with MS a year and half ago and it took six months and three neurologists to get it right. Not only that, a jackass doctor told me I had a hard time walking because I was out of shape! I run a 6:20 mile, and this dumb ass thinks I can't walk because I'm lazy. Find the best doctor you can, and even then get several opinions. Doctors make mistakes all the time. Thank you for all your reply's everyone, it means alot to me right now. Bill, I will look into my insurance options tonight, thank you for turning me on to that, I had no idea that existed. And for the record everybody, I only went to the walk in because I thought this was going to be a standard early spring cold like I always get. I do not trust them at all, I use them only to prescribe what I need to get my ears clear and back to work. The second I realized this was a serious problem I found a ENT. The more I think about this, the more I realize I need to find another ENT untill I find one that takes me seriously. Thank you all again, I will keep you posted on what I find out. Marty
  2. I did go to a "proper" doctor this 3rd time. I'm not going back to the walk in for this problem, I'm well aware this is too serious for them. I do not belong to any union, nor do I have any desire to join one, unless hearing loss is a sure thing, and from what I've been reading this week, I think I am too late to fix this. Do you have to be in a union to get coverage? Besides a union where would I even begin to look for such coverage? Is there an official name for these government programs?
  3. I'm actually thinking of getting a second (actually a fourth) opinion. I kind of feel he didn't take my pleas seriously enough, especially when my tests came back a-ok, his suggestion was "Well, you are probally more in tune with ear noises and hearing than the average population." Huh? Exactly why I can sit here and tell you that something is terribly wrong with my ear even though your damn tests tell you otherwise. I've been on wiki and google for the last week looking stuff up and suggested what is called "glue ear", which is hardened mucus in the middle ear, and he shrugged it off and pointed to my hearing tests which "shows no fluid in there". Well, something is messing it up.
  4. I just got back from an ENT specialist who could find nothing wrong with my ear. I guess a little background first... About 4 weeks ago I had the worst miagraine I have ever had in my life. The day after it turned into the flu that lasted for almost 2 weeks. Like every spring, the cold went into my right ear and it plugged up with fluid. I went to my walk in clinic like I do every year and got some anti-biotics and a cortical steroid which helps to drain my ear within a day or two so I can get back to work. Only this year the steroids didn't drain my ear completely. Within a week I was feeling fine and could hear 90% out of my right ear, but there was still some fluid in it, so I went back to the walk in clinic. The doctor said there was no more sign of infection, but was kind enough to prescibe a tougher decongestant along with another round of ear draining steroids. These still did not work, so I made an appointment with a ENT specialist. Well, after looking in my ears, sinus cavities, and sending me next door to a hearing specialist, I apparently have no fluid in my ear, no eaustation tube disfunction, and my hearing tested fine up to 8k (the highest the test goes) with no asymetery between my 2 ears. This is NOT what I hear inside my own head. I'm currently taking a break from editing some sound effects I need to complile for a show I'm sound designer for, because I cannot get my mind off this. I can't exactly explain it, but something is really not right with my ear. It feels like there is a bit of fluid stuck in there. Although in the everyday world, it really does not bother me too much (kinda like my tinitus), in the studio/theatre it affects my work, because I can not tell what I am really hearing. There also seems to be a slight pressure on the right side of my head surrounding my ear, but I don't know how much of that is just psycho-somatic (sp?). I also have neck problems from a bad car accident 12 years ago, and have even recently been to a chiropracter to get an alignment in the hopes that is the cause. Still no relief. So now I am faced with trying to figure out what else to do with my life, because I refuse to become the stereotypical "deaf sound engineer" and just wing it for another decade or 2 because it's all I know how to do. I can only assume that this latest infection caused some sort of internal damage to my ear that can not show up in the usual round of tests, and that I'm basicly {censored}ed. Before anyone suggests more comprehensive tests, I have no insurance, and my ENT said the next step would be to get a CAT scan (didn't say what he'd be looking for) that would cost around $1,000. I just don't have that kind of cash, the $200 it cost me yesterday just to see him was borrowed from my mother. Does anyone here have any advice or suggestions? This has really, really depressed me; as I have had nothing but this as a carrear goal since I was a freshman in high school and recorded my first band. I love music, I love engineering, I love sound design. I would hate a life where I couldn't enjoy all these things to their fullest. Thanks for any advice you may have for me, or for just allowing me to rant to people who can understand. Marty
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