For inner ear infection(swimmers ear) the best remedy is Ciproquinol drops. No reason to ingest, when you can apply locally, right to the ear drum.
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Looking for Dr english speaking for Cash,need antibiotics for swimmers ear .
I just looked up my prescription. I got ear drops (clotrimazole+lidocaine), amoxicillin capsules, vitamin tablets, pantaprazole (due to the amoxicillin) and (betamethasone + neomycin) cream for local application (see my previous post about cotton ear plug) I had to put the drops first, make the ear plug and put the cream on it and put it in my affected ear for a few days. Advice was to do it for 5 days even if symptoms disappeared and come back if they did not.
Definitely not, this was in my home country during a vacation with the condition so worse that I could not sleep due to the pain and the treating doctor was a ENT specialist. I am paranoid about what I put into my body (despite the pain) so I got it verified by my aunt who is a GP 😂
Had this been the NHS in the UK, they would have given me only paracetamol, until my head was like a football. So hard to get antibiotics out of the NHS
You do have a point, I am not sure how experienced/trained doctors in DR are.
In the UK the reason they don't give out the antibiotics is because over-prescribing in the past led to infections which are resistant to the antibiotics. And from what I have been told, 90% of those who seek medication from GP's don't need any at all, just to take time to let their bodies deal with things. As it takes about 3 weeks to get a doctor's appointment in the UK most people end up having to do this anyway.
To be fair, I do get same day GP appointments and it depends on which postcode you live in etc but sometimes I get a doctor, sometimes a nurse.
Any further specialist appointments do take a looooong time and can get postponed at short notice too.
The quality of treatment is still good, just that it takes a while to see specialists.
That's one good thing about the DR. You can see most specialists the same day in many cases - no appointment needed. Some do work with appointments only.
Why go to any doctor when you can post your malady right here.
Specialist means nothing. a few weeks ago, I slipped and came down hard on my ankle really bad. Once it started to blow up, I went to the Cuban hospital in Samana.
The first doctor looked at the x-rays and did not see anything but wanted to call in the specialist to double check. When the specialist arrived, he said I had a fracture and said I should probably put some screws in. They wanted to give me an injection. I said do not stick anything in my body. I called the airline and scheduled a flight for the next day. On nothing but Tylenol, I got home to the US and they did some x-rays they found out that I had three fractures. I had fractures on both sides of my ankle and broke my fibula.
My bill in Samana was 7500 pesos.
The cost of the surgery here in the US was $112,000 and my portion is about $6000 US. The moral of the story; don’t break your ankle in any country.
They way they drive motos here, a fractured leg is absolutely nothing. The docs here see more of them in one week than the average US doc will see in a year or two. $100 USD max with insurance here. I don't know how to account for the bad luck you had(?).
I'm allergic to penicillin, erythromycin, and sulfa, so I usually default to Cipro. I'm not a doctor; I only play one on DR-1.
I took Cipro for decades, until I got a serious reaction to it. Thankfully I was in an ER and they reacted immediately, or I wouldn’t be here. Scary