I've come up with a treatment for my ear infection that is not "getting a doctor to prescribe me antibiotics", but "squirt hypochlorous acid* into the ear".
(I'm pretty sure I have a permanent lesion in my eardrum from an infection in 2011, because I constantly get minor infections, especially when I get water in my ear. This time I got the infection from "where are my earplugs, oh let's just be careful" when washing my hair, and it got MEAN, with a fever, when I was hit by a cold gust of wind last week.)
The pros of this are
no doctor trying to rip off my mask and then still denying me antibiotics
no antibiotics
The con is that it hurts like shit :))) But yay, fever is finally going down.
* This is not dangerous. HOCl is the stuff our white blood cells produce to fight bacteria and viruses. You can clean wounds with it. I disinfect produce from the shops with it. You could drink it if it didn't taste utterly vile. (I rinse the apples with water afterwards.) And you get more (soapy/unsterile) water into your ears during a bath than the amount of sterile liquid I squirt into my ear. It just hurts because the eardrum/inner ear is infected.
Now let's see if I'm going to sound myself next time I get a UTI.
