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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, October 22, 2007 - 1:05 pm
Question (only because this is a serious pet peeve for me since I suffered one long ear infection from the time I was 6 months old til I was about 17.) Do you guys use anything to clean out your ears? Q-tips, the corner of a towel/washcloth, toilet paper, the end of a pencil (i had a friend who did that.) If you are, STOP THAT! LOL, that's the worst thing possible to do, dr's really aren't joking when they say don't stick nothing in your ear smaller than your elbow. I don't know that anyone is, but that could be the cause of re-occuring ear infections. If you (general you, not anyone specific) feel the need to clean out your ears, the dr can flush them out for you. Having said that, I'll go the other way now, NY about the baths. Dakota, a couple summers ago, was having a terrible time with swimmers ear. Got to the point where baths and even sometimes showers were bugging her. She now uses ear plugs to prevent that. They don't actually go into the ear canal like a q-tip or anything else, you just set them right inside your ear and they block the water. Soon as she started using them for her baths and showers, we saw the swimmers ear stuff end. I know with her, she's like me, in that allergies and sinuses play a large part in the ear infections. All that fluid drains to the ears and after awhile cause an ear infection. Once we were able to get her allergies under control the regular ear infections also stopped. It did take us a while to find the right combo of allergy pills and nasal spray though. Ear infections are a huge pain, I'm so sorry you guys are having to deal with them. And the stuffiness (which I suffer with on a regular basis even without ear infections) is awful!
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Monday, October 22, 2007 - 1:09 pm
If I don't clean out my ears (not stick the q tip all the way in there) that they bother me really badly. I can feel the wax inside there and it drives me batty.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Monday, October 22, 2007 - 1:10 pm
I've heard that about Q-Tips before. I am 51, and this is probably my 3rd ear infection in my whole life. I have always shoved Q-Tips down my ears and never had any wax at all when I go for my regular doctor visits. I don't know how anyone could stand NOT using them! I'd be itchin like a banshee if I didn't do that!
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Landileigh
Member
07-29-2002
| Monday, October 22, 2007 - 1:25 pm
i can't stand to have water in my ears. i've always used q-tips and never had an infection.
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Nyheat
Member
08-09-2006
| Monday, October 22, 2007 - 1:34 pm
The Q-tip thing is I think a warning to those who agressively clean with them. I usually use them after getting out of the tub, but reasonably! BTW, I read today that there is a superbug diagnosed out of Rodchester, NY. Yes, another superbug, that is specifically resistant to 18 antibiotics and like to nest in the ear. They advised that MDs start taking a sample of the infection to be diagnosed in a lab, something rarely done.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Monday, October 22, 2007 - 1:45 pm
I'm 30 minutes from Rochester and that's where my best friend lives. Maybe that's the bugger who got into me!
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Nyheat
Member
08-09-2006
| Monday, October 22, 2007 - 1:56 pm
Here is the link for you Huk'd. http://www.physorg.com/news111772810.html The low-grade antibiotics I have taken over the past few years have done nothing for me. Seriously, I may as well be taking Flintstone's chewables. I will think about the ear plugs, War. Good advice!
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Monday, October 22, 2007 - 3:26 pm
Does cleaning out your ears make anyone else cough? My ears get nasty quick. Drives me nuts. I sometimes use peroxide to loosen up the wax, then I use a super fluffy Q Tip (Like the baby kind)
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Monday, October 22, 2007 - 3:31 pm
Not me, Escapee, but I had a roommate years ago who would cough and gag when she cleaned her ears. All I could do was laugh! Of course, I'm the same way about my bellybutton, can't touch it at all or I can gag. I guess we all have our little quirks, huh?
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Monday, October 22, 2007 - 3:37 pm
No, but plucking my eyebrows makes me sneeze.
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Treasure
Member
06-26-2002
| Monday, October 22, 2007 - 4:41 pm
Yep, every time, Escapee.
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Watching2
Member
07-07-2001
| Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 12:02 am
Make me cough, too.
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Prisonerno6
Member
08-31-2002
| Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 7:03 am
After my fungal ear infection, the doctor told me to put a cotton ball slathered with vaseline in my ear to keep the water out. I did the same while swimming that summer. I rarely use q-tips, but I do wrap the towel around the end of my finger to clean the outside of my ear.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Sunday, October 28, 2007 - 5:50 am
It's almost 6am, my breakfast is ready, and the Sunday paper isn't here yet. Don't you just hate that!
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Sunday, October 28, 2007 - 10:20 am
Oh, the horror, OG! Really. It would make me mad too.
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Sportsfan
Member
09-03-2007
| Sunday, October 28, 2007 - 10:24 am
Yup, I cough a deep chocking almost cough when I q-tip my ears. Worst on left side too??
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Sunday, October 28, 2007 - 10:27 am
OG, your entire week is now ruined. I would sue the paperperson if I were you. Some things in life you just don't mess with . . . you never steal that last bite of donut from your sister, you never tell your dad that you were really out with a boy in the corn field that one time 20 years ago, and you never show up late with the Sunday paper. You'd think people would learn.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Sunday, October 28, 2007 - 10:52 am
I met the deliverer's car in the middle of the street as he was driving down the other side and my paper would have taken another 5 minutes. Know what he had the nerve to say? 'Sorry 'bout that.' He'd a been really sorry iff'n I'd a come up side his sorry head. Snort!
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Sunday, October 28, 2007 - 11:08 am
I can top the newspaper delivery story.... I took two papers, the local city paper, and the major regional paper. The delivery lady for the regional one regularly drove the wrong way down the street. We live on a two way street where the lane direction is divided by a grassed median. She'd drive (over the speed limit) the wrong way down what was essentially a one-way lane. She often drove head on into Mom's path as Mom attempted to get out of the driveway to get to the bus station. I called the police, and they wouldn't do anything about it; although they said if I got a license number I could turn it in to them (which would have required me standing in the middle of the street in the dark, hope I didn't get run over, and hope I could catch the license number before she sped by). I called the paper and complained, and they said they'd "talk to her" about it. Yea right. The final straw was when she blocked Mom's path as she left for work one day, then had the nerve to blow her horn at her, then yell out the window to move cause she had a paper to deliver there. I called the paper right then and there and cancelled our subscription!
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Sunday, October 28, 2007 - 12:25 pm
Our guy drives down the wrong side also, but I live on a very quiet side street, so have never taken any exception to it. Delivering the papers has to be a pretty thankless task at best...Sundays especially; it is such a big job. He did have a helper this morning. Actually, I have to hand it to our fellow; he's like the USPO, neither snow, nor hail, etc. He's good!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, October 29, 2007 - 11:07 am
Can anyone explain to me why I have an easier time going to the bank and pulling money out of my aunts checking account than I have getting any damn information about her prescriptions from the pharmacy?? I go to the bank at least once a month with a check, tell them how I want the cash, they call her and she verifies that I am indeed supposed to cash this check for her and thats it. Pharmacy is a whole different story. She has called several times and sent a written letter with her signature once letting them know I'm taking care of her meds and still every stinking single time I have to call I have problems with them. I can drop off and pick up prescriptions with no problem, they don't even check id to verify that I am listed on her account, but try to call them and it's like I'm trying to get top security secrets! Last week she had a dr appt and got two prescriptions for an ear infection. She gave me a list of four other meds she needed refilled. One of them was ok, but the other three they had to call the dr for refill. I said no problem, here's my name and phone number, call me or her when they are ready and I will pick them up. I called twice last week and after going through every peice of info they needed to verify I'm supposed to be dealing with this and asking them to at least call her finally found out the drs office hadn't called and they hadn't followed up. Finally this morning I call and have to go through my name and phone number, hers, the prescription names and rx numbers, her medical number, and finally asking them to at least call her and let her know if I need to stop by and pick them up the girl finally tells me they are in. But they'll deliver. Arghhhhhhhhhhh. We discontinued delivery service months ago because she was either sleeping through the delivery or refusing to open the door cuz they never send the same person twice and she won't open the door if she doesn't know who it is! Only reason I call is because the pharmacy is out of my way and I'd rather know before I go over if the prescriptions are ready. And it's not like I can't give them any info they need and I'm not listed on their computers for contact info when the meds are ready.
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Monday, October 29, 2007 - 12:04 pm
War, can you change pharmacies or is there some reason you need to stay with this one? It doesn't sound like they're providing you with the service you require.
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Y2krazy
Member
09-17-2002
| Monday, October 29, 2007 - 12:41 pm
War, I'd suggest talking to the owner/pharmacist..see if he/she can make any suggestions for providing your aunt and you with the service you require. The bank obtains permission each time...then cashes the cheque. (They don't care what denominations you want....that has nothing to do with the actual transaction) The pharmacy is trying to protect your aunt's privacy....that can be a problem....if they don't have a specific method of holding the information (aunt's permission to disclose personal information) By asking to speak to THE ONE in charge, you may have a better chance to get the problem taken care of once and for all.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Monday, October 29, 2007 - 12:41 pm
Duh! Excellent idea, Kitt.
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Landileigh
Member
07-29-2002
| Monday, October 29, 2007 - 1:58 pm
actually, war, you should get a medical power of attorney signed by your aunt for prescriptions. You can state on the form it is only for prescriptions. Also, the bank should have a power of attorney on file also. The bank should not be allowing any processing without it on file.
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