Question: Hi there. I am a 43 year old healthy female. In January I got a horrible fuzzy bad sensation in my right ear. The doc prescribed an antifungal ear drop which I used, when the pain hadn't cleared he prescribed a second bottle of the ear drop (cannot remember the name). That didn't work and I went to see a different doc who said I had a bad ear infection and prescribed ammoxicillan. That didn't work and by this stage the pain was really bad so she took an ear swab and prescribed a different oral antibiotic (again I cannot remember the name). I finished the course but the pain was still bad so I went back to the GP again and she had a look and said the ear infection was still there and bad and prescribed gentisone ear drops. I took these for a week and the pain eased a bit although these drops left my ear very itchy. I decided at this point to give it a few weeks to see if my ear would heal up by itself. I didn't so I went back to the GP (mid March by now) and she prescribed another bottle of Gentisone as this was the only thing that seemed to have any impact on the infection to this point. I have finished this second bottle of Gentisone ear drops and by ear is worse than ever. Not only is it painful from the infection but it is now so itchy its driving me crazy. I cannot sleep without pain killers and it leaving me irritable and crabby with two small children in the house. I have not been able to use the pool at my gym (I joined in January hoping to get fit and even doing any kind of fitness is leaving me feel dizzy and sick). Please help as I am at my wits end at this stage and I'm also so scared that all of this is doing long term damage to my ear and possibly leaving me open to re-occurring problems in the future. Can you advise me of the next step? Many thanks XXXXXXX