Update: The new GP took one look in my ear and said, and I quote, “You have a lot of . . . infection!”
And was baffled that urgent care hadn’t given me antibiotics.
I imagine it had gotten significantly worse over those few days [ it had subjectively ], as I hadn’t been able to stay supplied with garlic.
I’m now on doxycycline 200mg/day; Google says ear infections are usually caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae, and that this strain in America is resistant to tetracyclines around 1⁄5 of the time. But new GP said if it didn’t work to come back and he’d try something else.
So barring further complications I seem to finally be in the clear.
New doc has been in the area for a while but doesn’t look/talk like he’s from around here; I would hazard a guess that’s why he was a lucky roll.
Update: The new GP took one look in my ear and said, and I quote, “You have a lot of . . . infection!”
And was baffled that urgent care hadn’t given me antibiotics.
I imagine it had gotten significantly worse over those few days [ it had subjectively ], as I hadn’t been able to stay supplied with garlic.
I’m now on doxycycline 200mg/day; Google says ear infections are usually caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae, and that this strain in America is resistant to tetracyclines around 1⁄5 of the time. But new GP said if it didn’t work to come back and he’d try something else.
So barring further complications I seem to finally be in the clear.
New doc has been in the area for a while but doesn’t look/talk like he’s from around here; I would hazard a guess that’s why he was a lucky roll.