hi its badger 7 feedback on the earbud situation , well up to now went docs (walk in 1s) on fri last , he found that i had a slight swellin and redness near the eardrum, for which he gave me some (amoxicillin) 1 week course, started on sunday, but may i go further ,stupid me just over 12 months ago i stuck an earbud round the bk ot the other ears eardrum , and suffered a slightly damaged muscle( tensor tympani muscle) which is attached to the drum , its getting better by the day, but going bk to the docs on fri last , without me thinking i let the doc push a thermometer against the eardrum of the worser ear i feel as thou im goin backwards instead of fwds , now have fluids to bother with, which i thought i got rid of ( reply welcome thanks