Woke up this morning - I was as deaf as a post

[huw williams]

No that's not the title of a traditional Delta Blues song, but a fact.

When I got up this morning I was completely deaf in the left ear. Well actually there was a shrill tinitusish ringing in there, but a 100% lack of sound getting through.
Salem's usual demanding mewls for his breakfast were falling on deaf ears... or deaf ear at least. [img]http://i25.tinypic.com/29wvd5x.gif[/img]

Naturally I did what anyone in this situation would do - WILD PANIC - careering round the bedroom, trying to hit some feeling back into my ear with the palm of my hand and only succeeding in painfully stubbing my toe on the leg of the bed. So I was now going deaf and partially crippled. Convincing myself that I'd got a brain tumor which was probably going to make me blind at any minute too, I quickly made an appointment with the GP and walked down there (sideways, with my good ear facing forward) while I could still see.

"Ah yes we've had a few of these in this week" explained the doc "it's some weird strain of head-cold virus going around, you've probably noticed some other symptoms?". Admittedly I had been felling the stuffiness and blocked nose you normally get with a head cold and he said there was nothing to worry about, hearing should return slowly over the next 24 hours as the symptoms clear.

Going up in the lift at work I said to one guy - "I'm deaf in one year due to a head cold" to which he replied that he'd had the exact same thing a couple of days ago and he knew of two others who'd had it as well. Now, a few hours later I can hear a little but it sounds like I'm standing in front of a speaker with 'white noise' coming through it.

Amazing, and a little frightening at the time. Anyone else come across this?

[Antloony]

I have but not from having a head cold.

Ive successfully trained my right ear to become deaf when laying in bed as this is the side my misses moans at me from about doing all the odd jobs and diy I've still yet to do around the house.

[adrian]

You didn't go and see My Bloody Valentine the other night by any chance, did you? That would explain this

[huw williams]

Alas no, and since I've survived several decades of sticking my head in the base bins at Motorhead, AC/DC, Metalllica and the likes gigs with no noticeable effect on my hearing, I'm surprised that a mere head cold has succeeded where the monsters of rock have failed.

Though I did get singed eyebrows in the '70s from standing too close to the stage at a Kiss gig

[Daniel Gee]

I went last night.

it was quite an experience, a lot of people walked out in the last twenty-five minutes. Oddly the whole thing felt very similar to a bike race, moments of sublime transcendence mixed with, as the evening progressed, large doses of pain.

I've been moving around in a strange bubble of muted noise all day, its quite odd.

[Sylv]

[quote="adrian"]You didn't go and see My Bloody Valentine the other night by any chance, did you? That would explain this

[Amy]

Ha, what's new?! Huw can sleep through anything Riot outside? Domestic murder? Nope, doesn't hear a thing, whereas Smythe (his old flatmate) and me would stagger up in the morning having finally gone to sleep in the wee small hours after it's all quietened down

[Antloony]

[quote="huw williams"]Though I did get singed eyebrows in the '70s from standing too close to the stage at a Kiss gig

[mrP(Boonen)VT]

[quote="Amy"]Ha, what's new?! Huw can sleep through anything Riot outside? Domestic murder? Nope, doesn't hear a thing, whereas Smythe (his old flatmate) and me would stagger up in the morning having finally gone to sleep in the wee small hours after it's all quietened down

[Snoop Doug]

[quote="Antloony"]Blimey a blast from the past. Ace Frehley was at an awards show recently and was due to hand out an award but refused to go on stage due to no make up artist being available to do his make up.

[Andrew G]

Pardon?









Well someone had to . You could try and speed up the healing process by holding a CO2 pump against the opposite ear and then releasing the gas. As the wind rushes through your head it might blow some wax or other obstruction out the other side.

[Sylv]

Classic French comedy moment

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[huw williams]

I like the look of both of these methods

[Mike I]

[quote]I quickly made an appointment with the GP and walked down there (sideways, with my good ear facing forward) while I could still see.