sockgirl77
Well-Known Member
My son is getting tubes in his ears in tomorrow. Anyone have any experience with this? Did it work?
Tubes in ears...
- Thread starter sockgirl77
- Start date
C
Charmed
Guest
It will be fine. Just get some good ear plugs for baths and pools
smoothmarine187
Well-Known Member
I had it done to me when I was little, it worked but obviously I don't remember anything about it.
cattitude
My Sweetest Boy
My oldest son had three sets of tubes with the final ones being more permanent and had to be removed.
Generally, the tubes work their way out after several months. You have to be extremely careful and use ear plugs (my son had special ones made specifically for his ears) so water doesn't get in his ears.
I don't think they use the tubes as much as they used to. What is your son's problem? My son needed them until he was 5...long enough for his eustachian tubes to develop and grow.
Our youngest got them at 9 months...and they fell out several months later and that was the end of his problems.
Who's the ENT?
sockgirl77
Well-Known Member
sockgirl77
Well-Known Member
He has gotten over 30 ear infections in his young life. He has ended up with some hearing loss which has caused a speech delay. He has alot of negative pressure in his ears. Dr. Daly is the ENT.
cattitude
My Sweetest Boy
W
Wenchy
Guest
My little guy had chronic ear infections. Once the tubes were in he never had another.
He also had speech delay issues. All is peachy now.
He was about J's age when he had the surgery.
Best of luck!
sockgirl77
Well-Known Member
Thank you. He did 3 courses of antibiotics before he got the okay for the tubes. His ears are still killing him. I really hope that it works instantly. This little guy has been through way too much.
My daughter had them put in the same day she had cleft palate repair. Somehow they managed to stay in for almost 3 years 
! One just slipped out her ear at daycare one day, the other came out in a blaze of green oozing glory 
. Only 1 other infection the whole time she had them in.
Is your little one being fitted for hearing aids?
! One just slipped out her ear at daycare one day, the other came out in a blaze of green oozing glory . Only 1 other infection the whole time she had them in. Is your little one being fitted for hearing aids?
cattitude
My Sweetest Boy
Our son's ears used to ooze a dark green fluid. He would wake up during the night screaming with the pressue and then it would burst and drain and drain. He would be sick, take the meds and be off the meds a week and sick again before his recheck. He had the first tubes at about 2 1/2 and about a year later had more tubes and they removed his adenoids. Then when he was 5, they put in a set that stayed in until the dr. felt he could go without them and they were removed by the dr. about a year later.
sockgirl77
Well-Known Member
My daughter had them put in the same day she had cleft palate repair. Somehow they managed to stay in for almost 3 years
Is your little one being fitted for hearing aids?
The audiologist wants to wait a few weeks after the tubes are put in and give him another hearing test. Then we'll go from there. I know that it really is just minor surgery but I'm sick to my stomach about my son going through this.
Dymphna
Loyalty, Friendship, Love
Sounds like my nephew...had a speech delay and as soon as he got the tubes he started talking. Less than a year later he had to have a second set put in. His father had three sets of ear tubes as a child. I think the younger they are the faster they fall out and have to be replaced, probably because they are growing faster.
I know 30 years ago, when my brother had them done, they were real strict about ear plugs...he had specially made, form fitting ones he had to wear them in the bathtub. Now they don't make such a fuss about the ear plugs. I don't think my nephew had them at all and they have a pool.
sockgirl77
Well-Known Member
Eew. Mine hasn't oozed anything. He has had no leakage. I noticed that his equilibrium (sp?) has really been off lately. Think that is due to the pressure?
cattitude
My Sweetest Boy
He'll be fine.
You know, all the crap our son went through and he has no memory of any of it, except having the last set out. He doesn't remember any of the pain, etc.
lovinmaryland
Well-Known Member
cattitude
My Sweetest Boy
sockgirl77
Well-Known Member
He'll be fine.
He will be fine
Thank you.
SoMDGirl42
Well-Known Member
Dr. Daly isn't one to rush right into surgery. She uses tubes as the last resort. My daughter has been seeing her for nearly a year because of the same issue. She waited through the winter into the summer months to see if the ears would clear up in the warmer months. They did, without the surgery. I was thankful she was conservative and not surgery crazy.
He'll be fine. I was one of the first experimental patients that had tubes in my ears as a child. I had to go to childrens hospital for the surgery and stayed 3 days (I also had adnoids, and tonsils removed at the same time.)
red_explorer
Well-Known Member
I had awful ear infections as a child. I have a lot of hearing loss and deterioration of bones inside my ears, more the left, as a result of it. I had tubes when I was six, and vividly remember it. I remember the incredible pain before the tubes, and a lot of relief after tubes. I have had swimmers ear several times since then, but that's it. For my brother, the doctor didn't want to do tubes, and he is 35 and still miserable with ear infections. They tend to run in families. My grandfather, father, myself, my uncle and all three of his children, but my other uncle and kids and my aunt and her kids have never had them.