Ruptured ear drum, what should I do?
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I have been suffering with a painful ear and throat infection for about 4 days now on my right side. I was due to pick up a prescription for antibiotics yesterday. However, on the night yesterday, about 3 am, I woke up to quite severe pain, to my surprise, in my left ear. I can not hear anything out of it and it's very painful, I couldn't sleep at all that night and in the day I ended up going to an urgent care centre, where they said I have ruptured my ear drum due to an infection in my left ear (I felt no signs of an infection in there which is still a mystery to me how it got to be so bad to rupture my ear drum). I have been prescribed 500mg amoxicillin to be taken for 5 days, 3 a day. It is leaking a lot of liquid which is to be expected, however, it is extremely painful and the pain seems to not be getting any better at all. Is such a high level of pain to be expected? I'm taking both ibuprofen or paracetamol ever 4 hours but I genuinely don't see any difference in the level of pain, to the point now I can just about get 4 hours of sleep a night from exhaustion. Is this normal? If not what steps should I take? Thank you
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