This swollen and uncomfortable looking ear is from a staph infection of unknown origin. Ultimately it resulted in a week of hospitalization while on three simultaneous antibiotics to kill off the very serious infection. A thing to remember about stretched lobes is that they can act like “the canary in the mine shaft” for a lot of people &mdash if you’re getting a cold, your ears may get a little irritated first, and so on. Or in this case, be the rupture point for an infection (hopefully moddoctor will pop in and comment with something less medically amateur).
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292 responses to “Ear Agony”
oh! that poor man.
oh! that poor man.
oh! that poor man.
oh! that poor man.
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I dont think moddoctor is “a guy who” anything… lol
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I dont think moddoctor is “a guy who” anything… lol
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I dont think moddoctor is “a guy who” anything… lol
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I dont think moddoctor is “a guy who” anything… lol
wow that is so scarey.
this sort of thing has never happend to me and i hope it never will.
good luck to anyone that has to deal with this sort of thing.
sad shit.. 🙁
wow that is so scarey.
this sort of thing has never happend to me and i hope it never will.
good luck to anyone that has to deal with this sort of thing.
sad shit.. 🙁
wow that is so scarey.
this sort of thing has never happend to me and i hope it never will.
good luck to anyone that has to deal with this sort of thing.
sad shit.. 🙁
wow that is so scarey.
this sort of thing has never happend to me and i hope it never will.
good luck to anyone that has to deal with this sort of thing.
sad shit.. 🙁
#26, moddoctor is a real doctor, that’s why Shannon sometimes says he’d like to hear his input.
#26, moddoctor is a real doctor, that’s why Shannon sometimes says he’d like to hear his input.
#26, moddoctor is a real doctor, that’s why Shannon sometimes says he’d like to hear his input.
#26, moddoctor is a real doctor, that’s why Shannon sometimes says he’d like to hear his input.
Wow, I feel so terrible for him. That hurts just looking at it. Wow, I hope it gets better.
Wow, I feel so terrible for him. That hurts just looking at it. Wow, I hope it gets better.
Wow, I feel so terrible for him. That hurts just looking at it. Wow, I hope it gets better.
Wow, I feel so terrible for him. That hurts just looking at it. Wow, I hope it gets better.
#49 wrote: A medical explanation for stretched earlobes predicting your health is : due to the lowered vascularisation, your lobes are more harmful to infections,…
umm, no. piercings predict the general onset of a cold/the flu because when you’re getting sick, the lymph system kicks in, trying to flush away all the neutrophils that died while fighting the bacterial/viral invasion. and your piercings are a natural exit for the goo. if you look at the lymph system, ducts are found in high concentrations near all the most common places to pierce (ears/neck, nipples/axilla, genitals/groin).
#49 wrote: A medical explanation for stretched earlobes predicting your health is : due to the lowered vascularisation, your lobes are more harmful to infections,…
umm, no. piercings predict the general onset of a cold/the flu because when you’re getting sick, the lymph system kicks in, trying to flush away all the neutrophils that died while fighting the bacterial/viral invasion. and your piercings are a natural exit for the goo. if you look at the lymph system, ducts are found in high concentrations near all the most common places to pierce (ears/neck, nipples/axilla, genitals/groin).
#49 wrote: A medical explanation for stretched earlobes predicting your health is : due to the lowered vascularisation, your lobes are more harmful to infections,…
umm, no. piercings predict the general onset of a cold/the flu because when you’re getting sick, the lymph system kicks in, trying to flush away all the neutrophils that died while fighting the bacterial/viral invasion. and your piercings are a natural exit for the goo. if you look at the lymph system, ducts are found in high concentrations near all the most common places to pierce (ears/neck, nipples/axilla, genitals/groin).
#49 wrote: A medical explanation for stretched earlobes predicting your health is : due to the lowered vascularisation, your lobes are more harmful to infections,…
umm, no. piercings predict the general onset of a cold/the flu because when you’re getting sick, the lymph system kicks in, trying to flush away all the neutrophils that died while fighting the bacterial/viral invasion. and your piercings are a natural exit for the goo. if you look at the lymph system, ducts are found in high concentrations near all the most common places to pierce (ears/neck, nipples/axilla, genitals/groin).
Moddoctor: I understand that staph infections that spread to cartilage are particularly difficult to treat due to the relative lack of blood vessels to carry the antibiotics. I met someone that claimed to have had a years-long struggle trying to deal with a staph infection from an industrial. She was certainly missing cartilage in her ear (she said it had been excised; possibly necrotic?). She also said that the infection wasn’t really “gone”, it was just in remission. The question is, how plausible is this? Are infections that spread to cartilage really as hard to treat as she indicated, or am I more gullible than I think?
Moddoctor: I understand that staph infections that spread to cartilage are particularly difficult to treat due to the relative lack of blood vessels to carry the antibiotics. I met someone that claimed to have had a years-long struggle trying to deal with a staph infection from an industrial. She was certainly missing cartilage in her ear (she said it had been excised; possibly necrotic?). She also said that the infection wasn’t really “gone”, it was just in remission. The question is, how plausible is this? Are infections that spread to cartilage really as hard to treat as she indicated, or am I more gullible than I think?
Moddoctor: I understand that staph infections that spread to cartilage are particularly difficult to treat due to the relative lack of blood vessels to carry the antibiotics. I met someone that claimed to have had a years-long struggle trying to deal with a staph infection from an industrial. She was certainly missing cartilage in her ear (she said it had been excised; possibly necrotic?). She also said that the infection wasn’t really “gone”, it was just in remission. The question is, how plausible is this? Are infections that spread to cartilage really as hard to treat as she indicated, or am I more gullible than I think?
Moddoctor: I understand that staph infections that spread to cartilage are particularly difficult to treat due to the relative lack of blood vessels to carry the antibiotics. I met someone that claimed to have had a years-long struggle trying to deal with a staph infection from an industrial. She was certainly missing cartilage in her ear (she said it had been excised; possibly necrotic?). She also said that the infection wasn’t really “gone”, it was just in remission. The question is, how plausible is this? Are infections that spread to cartilage really as hard to treat as she indicated, or am I more gullible than I think?
Oh no! That poor guy! I hope that ends out the best for him… how traumatic.
Oh no! That poor guy! I hope that ends out the best for him… how traumatic.
Oh no! That poor guy! I hope that ends out the best for him… how traumatic.
Oh no! That poor guy! I hope that ends out the best for him… how traumatic.
got exactly the same last year when i went snowboarding!
i had 30mm lobes,put my plugs out and my ears healed by them self(and loads of vaseline & isobetadine) but they shrunk like 15mm in a weak!!
got exactly the same last year when i went snowboarding!
i had 30mm lobes,put my plugs out and my ears healed by them self(and loads of vaseline & isobetadine) but they shrunk like 15mm in a weak!!
got exactly the same last year when i went snowboarding!
i had 30mm lobes,put my plugs out and my ears healed by them self(and loads of vaseline & isobetadine) but they shrunk like 15mm in a weak!!
got exactly the same last year when i went snowboarding!
i had 30mm lobes,put my plugs out and my ears healed by them self(and loads of vaseline & isobetadine) but they shrunk like 15mm in a weak!!
i lost one stretched lobe to impetigo, some sort of infection that leaks orange liquid and spread all over the back of my head. i cringe in agony looking at this!
i lost one stretched lobe to impetigo, some sort of infection that leaks orange liquid and spread all over the back of my head. i cringe in agony looking at this!
i lost one stretched lobe to impetigo, some sort of infection that leaks orange liquid and spread all over the back of my head. i cringe in agony looking at this!
i lost one stretched lobe to impetigo, some sort of infection that leaks orange liquid and spread all over the back of my head. i cringe in agony looking at this!
It looks like Methicillin Resistant Staph, and that strain of staph is HARD to treat. Let’s hope it’s not.
MRSA can be transmitted hand to hand, which is even scarier.
It looks like Methicillin Resistant Staph, and that strain of staph is HARD to treat. Let’s hope it’s not.
MRSA can be transmitted hand to hand, which is even scarier.
It looks like Methicillin Resistant Staph, and that strain of staph is HARD to treat. Let’s hope it’s not.
MRSA can be transmitted hand to hand, which is even scarier.
It looks like Methicillin Resistant Staph, and that strain of staph is HARD to treat. Let’s hope it’s not.
MRSA can be transmitted hand to hand, which is even scarier.
dirty hippie…..
dirty hippie…..
dirty hippie…..
dirty hippie…..
scabboy: ALL staphylococcus can be transmitted hand to hand. It’s a VERY common bacteria found pretty much everywhere on the human body (your skin is covered in it right now)…that’s why they wipe your arm with alcohol before they stick you with a needle – it’s not because the needle is dirty, it’s to prevent what’s ON your arm from getting INTO your arm. and you can’t tell why type of staph it is just by looking at the infection (or even looking at the cocci under a microscope) – it has to be cultured and then tested for sensitivity.
scabboy: ALL staphylococcus can be transmitted hand to hand. It’s a VERY common bacteria found pretty much everywhere on the human body (your skin is covered in it right now)…that’s why they wipe your arm with alcohol before they stick you with a needle – it’s not because the needle is dirty, it’s to prevent what’s ON your arm from getting INTO your arm. and you can’t tell why type of staph it is just by looking at the infection (or even looking at the cocci under a microscope) – it has to be cultured and then tested for sensitivity.