Managing your Ear Dressing after Surgery

Dr. House, Dr. Muelleman and Dr. Mehta show how to properly manage your ear dressing after going through surgery. Click Show More to contact us.

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Video by Randy Heeren
Music by Ben MacLeod

[dollyscott]

Dr. Muelleman did my cholesteatoma surgery yesterday, and was great! He and his team have been awesome to work with. 10/10.

[anarios]

Thank you. There weren’t enough step-by-step instructions given to us at the hospital this was clear and concise and very helpful.

[markgood]

I had a perforated eardrum repaired and cholesteatoma surgery 2 1/2 years ago in NJ. Last week I had revision Tympanoplasty surgery. The little devil grew back. Both of my surgeries were absolutely painless. The 1st surgery was done behind the ear and the 2nd thru the ear canal. As far as I’m concerned, pain is not an issue. You will have the best possible sleep. In a few hours you will get up and walk out the door, and I’m no spring chicken!

[Gumorisco]

Today im getting tympony plasty surgery for my left ear i have both ear drums ruptured so will be doing the left side first i did a ct scan and the doctor had asked me which ear gives me the most problems i told him my left ear... so he told me lets do the left ear first... also told me that the ct scan that was done for my both ears that my left ear i started to develop chronic infection... im not feeling nervous or scared i know everything will come out good hoping for the best ... how ever he told me there is a risk factor .. since we have a nerve behind our ears that controls our facial muscles that if that nerve was to get damaged that my face could be paralyzed... i got bit scared when he told me that but he assured me that . rarely happens and that the surgery will be 100% good ive been dealing with this since i was a kid bad ear drainage and sometimes i couldn't hear correctly... other times i heard super loud i would feel uncomfortable so i finally decided to go for the surgery ill keep yall updated

[AaronPly]

I just had my tympano mastoidectomy 6 days ago and have experienced the most unbearable tinnitus in my life. I did go for a 2 mile walk today so I think I'll refrain from doing that again for the next 30 days. The tinnitus is like the highest pitched fog horn being shoved in my ear. I now know what it's like when people say they went insane. If this is my new normal I won't be on the planet much longer.

[mindyblack]

Thank you for these easy to follow instructions. My doctor did give me thorough instructions but it's nice to be able to have a reminder at home.

[AliG-fpmp]

Thank you! this help. I just had surgery yesterday

[saritasehjal]

I have ear problems.. it’s cholesteatoma ..so doctor told me to do surgery.. I mean it’s necessary to do surgery…. I just little scared about that .. I hope everything is going okay ….

[Gumorisco]

I just got my surgery done about a week ago pain I had in the first days was a 10 taking ibuprofen Tylenol and antibiotics after a week the pain went down to a 3 I now started to use the ear drops I can't clean my incision since it has medicine ive been having drainage from my incision but only small amounts of blood coming out using a cotton ball to try the blood

[mickeyh.]

I hope that I can get some answers here, I just had a cyst removed a week from tomorrow. So not even a damn week. The packing is wanting to come out. I'm having a lot of shooting pain and a lot of jaw pain. My head has been killing me. I've called the damn doctor no answer. They told me that I don't need to have a cotton ball in the ear. Only when shower. Should I just take this packing out at home? And just keep using the ear drops they gave me??

[Jigden]

How long for the Ear lobe (pinna) to return to natural position?

[secondplan]

Good day..Why can’t you touch the red marked x?

[hnsnTV]

Well great tips, about a couple of months back i got my second surgery for Cholesteatoma, these tips would have been nice to know.

[kajalnegi]

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[abdalanijim]

On my ear was only given a cup ..for 24 hrs.. and that's it. My ear looked messed up now its better

[adoh]

Thank you I just had a surgery yesterday on my ear cause I had a whole in there and there's infection so yeah

[fencer]

Lol I looked so silly when I had thre cup bandage after my ear pinning surgery… I didn’t wanna wear THAT to school, so my parents got me the lulu headbands hahahha😅 that was about a year ago and I had to wear the headbands for like 4-6 weeks? But I had to wear the cup things at night

[தமிழ்வேந்தன்]

Is Ear drum hole surgery gives 100% recovery?

[watchme]

I used a black cotton swab i side my ear it made it itchy and then pain will they have to to cut my ear or give medicine?

They said take 6 months to book appointment for rnt. So its 3 months left im so much in pain

[khickenmane]

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