• Ex-miner freed from 33 years of pain after TOOTH is removed from his EAR
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[release]For more than 30 years Stephen Hirst was in constant pain and partially deaf because of excruciating earache. But that is all in the past now after doctors found a TOOTH lodged in the former miner's ear. Now, Stephen can sleep unhindered by the intense headaches that plagued him. But medical staff remain mystified as to how the tooth came to be jammed in the 47-year-old's ear canal in the first place. Especially as he had all his teeth taken out some time ago. [img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/10/18/article-1321482-0BA656FC000005DC-303_472x312.jpg[/img] He first complained of pain in his right ear when he was a teenager and was forced to attend countless hospital appointments in an attempt to discover the cause of his mystery condition. 'I've been plagued by earache since I was around 14,' he said. 'The pain wouldn't go away and I couldn't concentrate because it was always there. I used to use a lot of cotton wool and cotton buds and was prescribed antibiotics because I was always getting infections. 'When I was younger I used to just sit and bang my head on the wall because it hurt that much. 'When I was younger I used to just sit and bang my head on the wall because it hurt that much. I would be screaming in pain, that's not exaggerating' 'I would be screaming in pain, that's not exaggerating. It was a sharp jabbing pain and it just wouldn't go away. I've lost count of the times I have been examined but no one spotted the tooth. [i]'I went again and again to the ear, nose and throat clinic. I don't know why but they never came across the tooth. I decided to have one last try to sort it out and I booked an appointment at the Royal Hallamshire [Hospital] in Sheffield.[/i] 'They were determined to get to the bottom of the problem. The nurse put a suction tube in my ear and cleaned it thoroughly, then she had a go with a microscope probe and finally she used some tweezers and got it out. [img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/10/18/article-1321482-0BA65C1B000005DC-22_470x288.jpg[/img] [img]'She didn't say anything at first, she just stood there looking amazed. Then she said to me: 'Have you lost any teeth lately?' I said I'd not had any teeth in my head for years. 'The nurse said she couldn't believe what she had found in my ear and showed me the tooth. She said in 20 years she's never seen anything like it. 'I would think it's a first tooth, looking at it, because it can't be big enough to be an adult tooth. I think it's a bottom tooth, one of the front incisors.' Mr Hirst, from Sheffield, who has two children, had to give up work as a miner 15 years ago partly due to his ear condition. He said he was baffled to how it got there but the most likely explanation was 'that I pushed it in when I was a kid or something.' But he speculated: 'At school one day I was swinging between two desks. 'I fell and smashed the back of my ear. It might have happened then.' [img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/10/18/article-1321482-0BA98C6C000005DC-536_468x334.jpg[/img] [i]A tooth had become embedded deep in Mr Hirst's ear canal. The most likely explanation is he pushed it in there as a child. His right ear drum has disintegrated but the pain has gone.[/i] Mr Hirst said he would be keeping the tooth as a souvenir. He added: 'I can hardly hear anything in my right ear, the eardrum has disintegrated but the main things is the ear ache has now cleared up completely.It's absolutely brilliant. Why the tooth wasn't spotted all those years ago I will never know but I'm just grateful to the hospital staff for finding the tooth now, better late than never.' His wife Denise, 43, added: 'Stephen has suffered from ear ache and infections ever since I have known him. 'It's marvellous that after all these years he has been cured. It's an amazing story.'[/release] [b]SOURCE:[/b] [url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1321482/Mans-33-year-earache-mystery-solved-doctors-pull-tooth-ear.html#[/url] british bad teeth pun durr
Anyone wanna tell me why they didn't see this earlier [editline]23rd October 2010[/editline] "Because socialized medicine sucks!" hurr
I guess they got to the root of the problem.
"When I was younger I used to just sit and bang my head on the wall because it hurt that much. " That wouldn't help much
Whole new meaning to toothache [editline]24th October 2010[/editline] [QUOTE=TehSpah;25608245]"When I was younger I used to just sit and bang my head on the wall because it hurt that much. " That wouldn't help much[/QUOTE] Actually, a knock to the head when I have a headache can sometimes clear it up.
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That sucks, maybe he shouldnt be smiling in that picture for looking like such a moron.
[quote]'When I was younger I used to just sit and bang my head on the wall because it hurt that much. I would be screaming in pain, that's not exaggerating'[/quote] Holy shit
Guess you could say he experienced an [I]eerie[/I] situation.
[QUOTE=TehSpah;25608245]"When I was younger I used to just sit and bang my head on the wall because it hurt that much. " That wouldn't help much[/QUOTE] Except for the fact it would provide temporary relief from the greater pain in his ear.
[QUOTE=TehSpah;25608245]"When I was younger I used to just sit and bang my head on the wall because it hurt that much. " That wouldn't help much[/QUOTE] Whenever my head itches (I don't know why don't ask) I hit it with something like my hand pretty hair because it relieves the terrible itch
[QUOTE=teeheeV2;25608262] Actually, a knock to the head when I have a headache can sometimes clear it up.[/QUOTE] Headache [img]http://www.gifsoup.com/view/46236/head-bang-o.gif[/IMG] No headache
[QUOTE=TehSpah;25608245]"When I was younger I used to just sit and bang my head on the wall because it hurt that much. " That wouldn't help much[/QUOTE] Actually it probably would. That's pretty much the basis of self-harm. Inflicting pain on yourself causes your body to release endorphins which make you feel better. Smacking his head against a wall would probably do the job. Not that it's a SMART thing to do. You could damage the most important part of your entire body, after all.
I guess you could say he had a bad case of... root canal. YEAAAAAH!
he looks so happy :unsmith:
[QUOTE=Xion12;25608431]I guess you could say he had a bad case of... root canal. YEAAAAAH![/QUOTE] A case of root canal?
News you can sink your teeth into
so apparently when he was little he was shoving random things in his ear until something got stuck
[QUOTE=Richard Simmons;25608293]That sucks, maybe he shouldnt be smiling in that picture for looking like such a moron.[/QUOTE] Maybe your avatar shouldn't be smiling for looking like such a moron.
[quote]Ex-miner freed from 33 years of pain[/quote] :buddy: [quote]after TOOTH is removed from his EAR[/quote] :raise:
Now he doesn't have any teeth. Was it worth it?
What a fucking moron "Oh I've got ear ache since I was 14 well fuck going to the doctors or a hospital about it I'm going to become a miner!"
[QUOTE=markg06;25613676]What a fucking moron "Oh I've got ear ache since I was 14 well fuck going to the doctors or a hospital about it I'm going to become a miner!"[/QUOTE] Way to read the article, it says right there he went to the doctor's a ton of times, and they couldn't find the problem.
[QUOTE=markg06;25613676]What a fucking moron "Oh I've got ear ache since I was 14 well fuck going to the doctors or a hospital about it I'm going to become a miner!"[/QUOTE] Someone should check your ass for teeth, you are certainly cranky.
[QUOTE=Richard Simmons;25608293]That sucks, maybe he shouldnt be smiling in that picture for looking like such a moron.[/QUOTE] He looks like an average bloke, the sort that you see having a pint in a pub on a sunday afternoon.
I guess when he was told he must have been taken a back, must have thought he had some crazy lodged in his ear when she told him.
[QUOTE=Nerts;25614481]He looks like an average bloke, the sort that you see having a pint in a pub on a sunday afternoon.[/QUOTE] I read that in the voice of James May.
So this man stuffed a tooth into his ear? He doesn't strike me as a clever man. [quote]The most likely explanation is he pushed it in there as a child[/quote]
This works how?
Half of the people in this thread did not actually read the article and it is making me mad He did not intentionally shove a tooth in his ear you dense illiterates
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