[speaker001:] Well Mr.
[speaker002:] Good morning.
[Doctor:] What can I do for you today sir?
[speaker002:] [cough] I was down last week... I had er from Saturday er my ear was all clogged up, terrible pain. And I was taking a course of antibiotics.
[Doctor:] And your your brains are still a bit dubious.
[speaker002:] So
[Doctor:] Let's have a look in and see what you've done to the poor old thing. [whispering] You're alright []... Still... still not right, still not right.
[speaker002:] awkward between your
[Doctor:] And you, you're frightened with your dog all the time?
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[Doctor:] Are you frightened when you're on the phone? That you can hear yourself
[speaker002:] I can hear myself talking all the time.
[Doctor:] Quite clearly?
[speaker002:] What, on the phone?
[Doctor:] Aye.
[speaker002:] I haven't really noticed that. No.
[Doctor:] You didn't notice any
[speaker002:] No.
[Doctor:] What what about when you're lying in bed at night?
[speaker002:] No, it's just a dullness all the time
[Doctor:] Just a dullness all the time.
[speaker002:] Aye.
[Doctor:] Right. We're gonna get you some special drops to use er there there s is there's still a bit of the eardrum's a wee bit blocked
[speaker002:] Mhm.
[Doctor:] looking. And we've got to lift that off
[speaker002:] Aha.
[Doctor:] to get a look underneath the er right....
[speaker002:] I mean I'm finding that you know through it because I'm sort of straining all the time I'm getting terrible headaches and all of the
[Doctor:] That's right.
[speaker002:] rest of it cos obviously at work you're... straining every minute
[Doctor:] That's
[speaker002:] of the day.
[Doctor:] Let's get, get some of the good old fashioned stuff....
[speaker002:] Would it have came off a cold or something?
[Doctor:] It's probably come off a cold, it's er, there there's a tube in there, and the other side.... If you could cut yourself down through the middle, there's you're ears on the outside there and there's a wee channel that goes in
[speaker002:] Aha.
[Doctor:] and at the bottom of that there's what's called the eardrum.
[speaker002:] Aha.
[Doctor:] Now in the inside of that it opens out, there's an opening in the bone and that leads down... among other things into a tube down here, now that is connected up further down to the sinuses across
[speaker002:] Aha.
[Doctor:] here so if you get a a heavy cold, some of this gunge that runs down the back of your throat gets into this tube and
[speaker002:] Right.
[Doctor:] blocks up this tube, comes right up into the back of your eardrum, blocks
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[Doctor:] up that wee bit there, and I think this is what I'm seeing,
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[Doctor:] is this stuff lying in the bottom there. You can see the level,
[speaker002:] Aha.
[Doctor:] across the bottom of your eardrum, and it's like standing and you're,
[speaker002:] Aha, that's exactly what it feels like, you keep sort of thinking Aha, something like that to help.
[Doctor:] If you could only stretch or you know turn your head a certain way it would run out. But I'm almost certain that's what I'm seeing
[speaker002:] Aha.
[Doctor:] in there.
[speaker002:] That that was the initial feeling that I got, it was like a build up of pressure in it, but on the inside and not in the outside
[Doctor:] Mhm. That's right, it's a similar to hat you get if you go flying when you've got a cold.
[speaker002:] I was gonna say that. Aha. [LAUGHTER]
[Doctor:] I'm almost certain that's what's doing it to you so let's see if we can get through to it with that,
[speaker002:] Right.
[Doctor:] get it broken up for you.
[speaker002:] Aha.
[Doctor:] Now it's a bottle, two drops in the morning, wee bit cotton wool, just to stop it running out, don't put it inside,
[speaker002:] Aha.
[Doctor:] right? In the morning and then before you go go to bed at night.
[speaker002:] Right.
[Doctor:] Okay?
[speaker002:] No bother.
[Doctor:] Right right.
[speaker002:] Bye bye.
[Doctor:] Cheerio now. [cough] [cough]. [recording ends]