This ain't any fun when I'm trying to finishing bush hogging around here! Ugh, If there is anything I would rather not have, it would have to be a dad gum ear infection. Yeah, I use an 8N so it is tractor related. I was doing some cutting the other day and my nose was running, maybe allergies or something, and I woke up yesterday and my ear was infected. How in the he** do I keep that from happening again? Don't feel too good either. I've had a hole in that ear drum from way back in the Navy days and this happens every long now and then. Got to be some way to avoid this from happening. This usually is more of a winter/head cold type of event if I have been really sick. I have a regular annual at the VA tomorrow so they can give me some antibiotics to fix it. It usually takes two rounds of the antibiotics to completely get rid of this too. Anyone else have a problem with the ear? It might go a year or two and not have a problem and then, Wham! One or two in a year. argh! :evil: I actually had this fixed a bout 20 years ago by an ENT. They put you to sleep and then cut the ear off and go in and clean out the spongy bone where the infection is harboring. Then fix the little ear parts inside and make a new ear drum out of the skin from behind the ear. Then sew the ear back on. Yeah, that one is just a little lower than the other side...maybe he had a stiff drink or two and wasn't seeing too good that day...lol