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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would be more worried about why an adult is getting repeated ear infections! This is worrisome. Does he swim? Do the bacterial infections come on the heels of other, viral, infections like colds and flu? Are the infections usually triggered by wax blockage?

My son is prone to ear wax blockages and there is an oil he has to use regularly to keep the wax from blogging his ear canal. When he forgets for long periods of time, he can't hear, it gets painful, and he ends up needing to see the ENT to remove the wax, which isn't ideal.[/quote]

even the cvs minute clinics remove ear wax for $50. urgent care wasn't needed OP.[/quote]

I know it's not a hard thing to do, now that I know it was the issue! And he did first go to the little on-campus, college urgent care, very much like a minute clinic (there is no CVS/Walgreens minute clinic near campus) and same copay of $30. The issue is the doctor there did not take care of him, scared him and told him he needed the ER or might go deaf. At that time, based again on what the doctor said, he thought it was more than an ear wax issue. Since I am 8+ hours away from him, and he was very alarmed, I did not look into it as much as I should have, and the doctor told him that because the ER was another college hospital he should have just a copay. I should have double and tripled checked and made him try a different urgent care but honestly, in the moment I was not thinking beyond "the doctor told him he needs help stat or else, and he is far away and panicked". It's very easy in hindsight to think through things better. Had he been home we'd have just gone to pediatrician or ENT after minute clinic.[/quote]

My colleague woke up with a “blocked ear”, assumed it was ear wax and is now deaf in that ear.

The problem with ear wax is the doctor can’t see through it to the drum. So there is no way to diagnose until it’s removed or images.

Urgent care maybe doesnt do ear wax removal because I expect it’s coded as “surgery” or some other nonsense. [/quote]

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