Anyone ever have a Ruptured Eardrum?

[Gin Rummy]

My week has sucked. If I didn't have Bad Luck I'd have no Luck at all. :lol:
Last week I Busted my eardrum in the pool. I've broken ribs, fingers, and toes before, but nothing compared to a Perforated eardrum! The pain I can only describe as getting Hit in the side of the head with a bat!
I had to go to the ER that night, They gave me Antibiotics, and told me to rest, Witch is easier said than done when your ear is draining brown slime!:ohwell:
A week goes by And the pain increases. I go to my Doctor, She gives me these funky ear drops.
This ordeal has been tiring... Hearing out of the ear is at 50% still... bleh...
It may take months before I'm fully healed up, Witch is really lame.
Don't know why I wrote this here. I'm not really looking for Medical advice, I'm not worried or anything like that, Just wondering if any fellow 'Dromers have had to deal with this bothersome affliction?

P.S. Be careful in the Pool. :P

[Mew]

I may have had one when I was a wee little dude, but I can't remember. I know I had something happen to my ear.

[DarkFell]

My step-mother lost an eardrum due to an aggressive buildup of sinus pressure. I think her right ear is the deaf one.

[IndigoErth]

Wow, sorry to hear. :( How does something like that happen in a pool? o.O

I don't think I've done that, I never had any symptoms of the draining you mentioned, though years ago the first airliner I was ever on really screwed with my left ear (pain, basically deaf in that ear for a day and decreasingly muffled for several more, and been slightly sensitive ever since), so my sympathy to you, esp if a rupture is going to take so long to heal, that sucks. :ohwell: