For two days now, I haven’t been feeling well. It started last Saturday night when I was watching TV in the bedroom and as I got up after lying on one side for a long time, I felt this uncomfortable ‘deafened’ sensation on my left ear. I thought it would go away after a while. Perhaps it was the pressure on my ear from my frozen position in bed earlier while watching TV. But the sensation just won’t go away. And now that it has persisted until today, and if it still stays till tomorrow, I am definitely seeing an ear doctor.

For a while, I got scared this might be a symptom of something serious like a heart attack. You know, in my readings, I found out that heart attack symptoms do not always come in the form of heaviness in the chest or pain and immobililty in the extremeties or stiffness on the nape. It can come in other ways like a lingering back ache, ear ache, or even pain in the eyes. I surmised that with threat of heart attack, the blood pressure would naturally rise. So I immediately took my blood pressure and thank God, it was normal.

Well then - heart attack discounted, the theory zeroes in to otitis. Oh, here I go again - making self diagnosis.. lol! Oh, my - must I be doomed to be a hypochondriac the rest of my life?