Sick? Allergies?

[icarus]

Okay, this is bizarre.

I was sitting at my desk, when suddenly my ear starting ringing and I felt all this pressure like being in airplane, or a sonic boom. I looked up to see if maybe there was low-flying (very big) plane, and glanced around thinking there was an earthquake. But everyone else was fine. I held my ear until the ringing went away, and I've been dizzy and light-headed since.

wildernessguru is coming to pick me up from the office.

Comments

[kijikun.livejournal.com]

ekk

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Yeah. We know what it is now: ear infection. I've been put on antibiotics and a decongestent to clear it up.

What a relief to know that I wasn't nuts or over-reacting.

Icarus

[ygrane.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a bad stress headache. Go home and do something relaxing.

*hugs*

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Actually, the ringing and dizziness continued into the next day, and so I went to the doctor today. Result: I have an ear infection in my right ear.

The doctor gave me a decongestant and because the pain was fairly serious and the dizziness ongoing, I'm also on an antibiotic.

Icarus

[byandby.livejournal.com]

Have you had an ear infection lately? You could possibly have some fluid build up from allergies/infection.

Good luck with the ear. If it keeps up, go the the doctor. I've waited too long before, and it wasn't good.

I apologize if it's TMI.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I should write a drabble for you as a prize. That was exactly what it was, just got back from the doctor.

Name your pairing. :D

Thanks for the helpful hints. It really helped hearing the possibilities from people.

Icarus

[byandby.livejournal.com]

How are you feeling today? You mentioned that your ear was really hurting....

Ear infections are horrendous. I have had extremely bad infections in both ears at the same time. It knocked me out of work for 3 days and took over two weeks before they were back to normal.

Don't worry about the drabble. It is my goal in life to spread the word against ear infections. However, if you feel that you just have to write a drabble for some reason, *cough*Snape/Harry*cough*.

I hope your ear continues to feel better!

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Harry paced Severus' study, and finally stopped with a frantic gesture.

"There's no use worrying about it now," Severus said calmly from behind his book; his cool voice was belied by the fact that he hadn't turned a page for the last twenty minutes.

"They know about our, um, 'friendship,' Severus," Harry said. The fire in the study was always roaring hot and raised a high sheen on Harry's face. "Someone sold the story to the Prophet."

"I am not your friend, Potter. And don't you ever forget that."

"Whatever you want to call it then -- they know."

Snape was silent a long moment, his eyes narrowed. At least he was taking it seriously now.

"What we need to do is discredit this so-called 'story.'"

"And how the fuck do you plan to do that?"

"Watch your language and learn, Potter." An smug smile curled his lips as he shut his book.

Then he added, "But at some point I would like to know just how your friends learned of our... personal arrangement."

The ruddy glow on Harry's cheeks was not from the fire.

~*~*~

The following morning found them in a certain unfashionable part of London, where a rickety stairway lead to a small office. A willowy blonde girl seemed unsurprised to see them.

"Hello, Luna," Harry said, and tried to quash his guilty feeling. "Thanks for doing this interview."

Luna's smile remained unchanged, "Oh. I'm not doing the interview," she said with a vague gesture. "I only work here."

As Severus settled in the squeaky office chair, taking in the dirt and clutter of Mr Lovegood's office with a sneer, he began, "Naturally, as your sources our names would have to be kept in the strictest of confidence."

"Of course, of course," the bald head of Mr Lovegood shone behind coke-bottle glasses. He beamed.

Severus sighed. "The truth is," he leaned forward dramatically, "Harry and I have been working together on a top secret potion formula that may one day allow anyone to be a Parselmouth...."

[byandby.livejournal.com]

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*falls over dead*

Excellent. likeomgiloveyou.

Then he added, "But at some point I would like to know just how your friends learned of our... personal arrangement."

The ruddy glow on Harry's cheeks was not from the fire.

I love this part. And a mention of the Lovegoods!

Thank you for this wonderful drabble. Don't worry. :) You still write an incredible Snape/Harry.

I hope you continue to feel better!

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

The earache came and went, but I feel better just knowing what it was and that I could do something about it. Right now I'm buzzed on medications.

Consider me an "anti-ear infection" convert. Yealch. But you get your drabble anyway. :D I haven't written Harry/Snape in such a very long time, so I'm surprised I actually managed it.

Icarus

[abigail89.livejournal.com]

Had your ears cleaned lately?

*hugs*

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Close. It turned out to be an ear infection. ^.^ Antibiotics, here I come.

Icarus

[lerah99.livejournal.com]

Wow, I know you hate your job, but this is taking it a little far. No more dizzy spells just to go home early, ok?

It could just be a very mild vertigo episode. I had a brief problem with vertigo and dizzy spells 3 summers ago. It happened like 4 times and it has never happened since.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Ha. Actually, I ended up staying at the office an hour late anyway. Can't help it. *g*

So you know how disorienting these dizzy spells can be. Really strange. I now have a better sense of what was going on with my friend who has a degenerative nerve condition. You can't really think in a straight line when your mind is spinning in circles from the illness.

Just got back from the doctor: it was an ear infection. It really helped to hear people brainstorm about what it could be.

Icarus

[wildebeth.livejournal.com]

Yeah, sounds like your sinuses are reacting to an allergy. That happened to me last week about the time I started experiencing a shitload of drainage, earaches, pressure, dizziness and the rest.

If you take modern medicine, might I suggest Sudafed 24-hour Sinus and Allergy if you experience any of the tell-tale symptoms soon.

How's your new diet going?

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Close -- it turned out to be an ear infection. I've never taken an antibiotic before, and, yes, the doctor also has me on Sudafed (give yourself a gold star :). I really appreciate all the suggestions and ideas about what it could be. It gave me a sense of the range of serious to not-so-serious implications.

The diet's going great. I'm taking supplements, and slowly shifting my snack habits to things that are high in calcium and all the good vitamins and cholesterol I need: yams, yogurt, potatoes, prunes, eating more peanut butter, cheese, eggs. All quite yummy.

Here's something interesting. Apparently preservatives knock out the calcium of some foods. So you have to be careful to buy say, prunes, that don't have preservatives. I bought some cheaper prunes only to find that there was No calcium. Now I'm careful to buy yogurt with active cultures, too.

I've also learned that many of the oils that are sold as vegetable oil are really rancid oil that's been treated to make it smell and look nice, but nutritionally it's still rancid. Vegetable oil that's gone racid is also called linseed oil, and is used on boats. *wide eyes* There's this stuff called Udo's oil that's a mix of oils - all the real thing (and it's in a dark bottle so light doesn't change it). A friend of mine gave me some which I'll try in place of the Flaxseed oil I've been taking for the low cholesterol.

That Flaxseed oil had an immediate effect on my skin. I've always had dry skin (now we know why) and within a couple days it was much softer. Then the pills got to be too much, and I broke out like a teenager. Heh.

Icarus

[haku-kaen.livejournal.com]

If it keeps up and you don't usually have allergies at this time of year, I'd go see an doctor, since it sounds like an inner ear thing to me. Trust me, I've had tinnitus for all my life, so I speak from experience when I say it can get rather hellish at times and I wouldn't want you to have a bad attack of it if you have an ear infection and don't get it treated.

Oh, and since I just remembered, do you know if your dad got the gmail invite I sent him? He hasn't activated it yet, so if he deleted it before you got in touch with him and let him know it wasn't spam or something I can send another.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Thank you. This encouraged me to go to a doctor, which I did today. It was an ear infection all right - you win a prize. One drabble, name your pairing. :)

This ear infection was nasty enough (because of the pain, ringing and ongoing vertigo) that the doctor prescribed an antibiotic.

I'll ask my dad about the gmail invitation. I owe him an email anyway.

Icarus

[haku-kaen.livejournal.com]

I'm glad that you went. My immediate response whenever I hear anyone complaining of tinnitus (that's the ringing, BTW) tends to be 'Get thee to a doctor!' I've had it constantly for as far back as I can remember, am pretty much used to it, and a strong attack is still incredibly bad, so I try to convince people who've started having it to get it checked out just in case they're on their way to having a bad attack when they aren't used to it. I know vertigo isn't fun either (well, sometimes it can be, if you don't have anything better to do then stagger around watching the world whirl and are in a room without many sharp edges to bump into), but it's never made me think that it might be a good idea to poke out my eardrums in the hopes that might make it stop.

I know these tricks might not work for you, since you're having it for a different reason then I am, but if you have another attack I find that the best thing to do it find something else that makes noise and concentrate on listening to that. If you have an analog clock with a loud tick you might want to move it into your bedroom until the infection's gone so that if you have an attack while you're trying to get to sleep you can listen to that instead of lying in the darkness listening to the ringing. Do your best not to think about it, the more of your attention you focus on it the louder it'll get (though this is one I really don't know for sure is true of other people), but if you just focus on other things it'll get pushed to the back of your mind where it can be drowned out by your thoughts. Don't close your eyes since, again, you want to focus on the ringing as little as possible and that's easier to do with something to look at that's more interesting then the blackness behind your eyelids. I'm sure you can pick up a pattern here. *grins*

You really don't need to write (not ring, as I originally wrote. Damn one-track mind) anything, but if you want there's always room for more Harry/Percy in the world. Preferably something fairly light, but that doesn't really matter.

[aubrem.livejournal.com]

Sounds like an ear infection. If not bacterial, look into virus. I know a couple people who had long term viral ear infections that took forever to diagnose and months or longer to clear up. Same symptoms dizziness, nausea.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Dead in the black. I just got back from the doctor's and that's exactly what it was. She prescribed an antibiotic and Sudafed. :)

You win a prize -- this helped get me to a doctor, which I usually avoid like the plague. Name your pairing for a drabble.

Icarus

[aubrem.livejournal.com]

I hope the antibiotic does the job ::fingers crossed::

I would like a snape/harry drabble if you don't mind. Thank you very much : )

[ragnhildholm.livejournal.com]

Nasty. Hope you get better... It sounds sort of like tinnitus to me...

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Is tinnitus the technical medical term for an ear infection?

Icarus

[ragnhildholm.livejournal.com]

no, tinnitus is an unexplained phenomenon where you hear this noise that other people can't hear, either a screeching, ringing, a low growl or a high-pitched note... some peole live with it constantly, other people have periodic attacs. There's nothing one can really do about it... so hopefully you've just got an infection! :-D

[electricandroid.livejournal.com]

Be careful

Wrap self up with cookies and eat a blanket.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

LOL! I've already promised you some Percy MPreg, haven't I?

Icarus

That's exactly how I felt, too.

[electricandroid.livejournal.com]

you know - I did not intend to write that - I think it was circa 4am my time ----

though - GOOD PLAN :)

*hearts you*

[(Anonymous)]

English is not first lang. Neither is French. Nor spanish. doubt you would read Navajo. I not good at writing any. but OH do I read fan fiction. slash! Hope you get this.

same thing happen to to my friends this morning. said it was huge hand pushing down on there head. shes got really sick later on. REALLY hot (you could stand next to hers and it feel) then really cold.

El mismo cosa occur con dos de mis amigas esta manana. Dicen que es un mano grande en sus cabezas. Despues de este ellas son muy mal. Hacen frio y mucho "hot"

Aussi il occure avec mis amies a la matin. Dit "une pied gran a la tete"
elles sont malad. elles sont froid. elles sont chauf.

Merci.

<3
Ompi

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I guess I'll have to brush up on my Navajo. ;)

Thank you, I stayed home today, and I'm going to the doctor's tomorrow.

Icarus