@erikas thank you I have just read previous comments.... I feel as if my best bet it to put up with the pain, heating pad, crying etc. til the pain subsides..... this is so helpful reading what others have encountered first hand.... I am on no pain meds except maybe one Tylenol a week and tough it out.... many meds I have taken over the years I now read can affect hearing, cause ear problems etc, .... this ent's receptionist, has no nurse in office, is a bulldozer but with only ents in this town of 54,000 has to be I guess. I will present my "case" as best I can on March 23 and take it from there.... again having the above info is the good, the bad and the ugly.... and am going to make notes as I know he will only give me ten minutes,,,, its not even video its a PHONE CALL, UGH J.

SORRY just saw this i often get lost in the discussion rooms. His nurse is a tiger i once wrote a letter to him, went to office and she refused it. I said well I will mail it to him but never did. I think in another room here I mention that the day of his phone call for which I waited a year i had two ocular migraines at five am and six am and daughter tried to cancel his call but he didn't see it; he phoned and i explained after migraines am now getting a little confused and memory loss... he went on and on about his practice during covid and 18 patients pressuring to see him etc. and his son wanted him to see his friend on and on raising his voice and he never once asked me about my issue; after i wrote several letters in draft finally mailing the last one to him in which I , I, apologized to HIM IF I had said something out of line ... he phoned on my husbands cell week or so later, and told him why he didn't want to give me ear tubes, possible infection, then said put wife on speaker phone and then he went on again another fifteen minutes about his practice and so many clinics referring patients to him, giving him extra work but he did say to me; You taught me a lesson with your letter... but that was it; another mention about his father in Montreal and he was gone; not one time did he ask about me... I feel if i had recorded those calls i could complain to the College but what would that get me. I saw a new ent out of town and he was in hurry, rude to his staff, gave me a quick check i n my ears that have no wax or drainage... i showed him photo of thick strings of mucous twenty times a day to see if part of it.... he said for him to look in my nose i would have to go to hospital and that was it ...off he went. His report to referring clinic said for me to use nasal rinses, which i cant as makes tinnitus worse, but he said it was for crusting. Well i haven't had crusting in my nose since a child and i had shown him and told him of constant thick strings of clear wet mucous from nose for years ... he said oh thats a booger. What specialist says that! sooo.. I put up with moderate hearing loss, tinnitus night and day, musical ear and hear people commentating in background; hyperacusis and eustachian tube or inner ear pain plus some tmj... but i know it could be worse but along with other list of illnesses I have that is getting longer it does put a dampener on enjoyment of life to say the least and no help for the pain. Thoughts to everyone else with similar issues.... and hope that you have more professional drs. than i have had to see in northern ontario! J.