@anongoodnurse Not at all - I accept all info from folks who know more about it than me (I know what it feels like, and how debilitating it is - instantly, and I have seen what has worked twice for me... But obviously I'm very much not medical

And it's in an area my wife doesn't have experience in - her specialism was more cardiothoracic care, and then vascular systems

@anongoodnurse (and it tickles me that I can still be called young even though I'm in my second half-century :-)

And I thought you might like my favourite paper on ncbi: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4057547

@RoryAlsop How did they get it in there?!? Enjoying it immensely!

@Stephie I have no idea, but I love it!

@RoryAlsop That's a great paper! Thanks for sending me a link. We used to (when I was in grad school) refer to crazy wrong paper as earning publication into the Journal of Irreproducible Results, a fictional journal created by, I think, JAMA (J of the Am Med Assoc.) JAMA itself was a bit of a laugh itself back them; it was packed with ads and considered a throw away. By the time I was an ER doc (so, wow, a decade later?) it started being read worthy. Now it's a respectable journal.

@RoryAlsop Since you are being so very gracious about my intrusions, may I suggest you leave out the clarithromycin next time (just for a day or two) and see if it works just as well? In the links I sent you, it says somewhere that it's not uncommon for labrynthitis (damn, that word is hard to spell!) isn't uncommon after an ear infection.

The papers are easy for me to read, and I picked them because I thought they might be easy-ish for a lay person to read as well (you can always ask your wife questions), but bacterial vestibular neuritis usually follows a bony infection of one if the bones of the middle ear. That's, like, seriously serious, as it's considered osteomylitis, requires extended treatment, and usually results in loss of that bone, hence deafness in that ear.

I thought that was in one of the links I sent you, but on rereading, it's not. Anyway, my point is, if it's that, your PCP should have sent you to a specialist, and a damn good one. Also, clarithromycin is not the drug of choice or sufficient to treat osteomyelitis (that's easy enough to google.)