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Outer ear pain - cartilage inflammation

cristiana

By cristiana
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For nearly a week now I've been suffering from very unpleasant ear pain - it feels at times it is the cartilage, the very tip of my ear - like someone is pulling at it or it's been nicked by a pair of scissors at the barbers type pain, other times it feels like there's a bee sting at the side of my head.  It hurts if I put pressure on the ear, or the side of my head, but also when I move.  Cool air tends to help, but warm water in the shower causes it to hurt.

I've been to the doctors and he's given me antibiotics to see if it helps, saying the inside of my ear is quite red, but the strange thing is the inner ear does not hurt at all.    

I've had this type of burning pain before since being diagnosed as a coeliac in different sites including pain that wrapped around my left ribs, which lasted a yea,r and my sacroiliac joints, which comes and goes. 

I have googled for ideas for pain relief as much as anything else and I've discovered that people with autoimmune conditions can get something called chondrodermatitis nodularis helicis on the ear.  The pain matches that exactly  except I've nothing to show for the pain; it also matches shingles before a rash appears but again no lesions.

Anyone had anything similar?

 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chondrodermatitis_nodularis_chronica_helicis

The picture and the description in the article linked above indicates there is an wound or an ulcer in connection with this in addition to the erythema. Do you have that also or just the redness? 

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Hi Trents.  Thanks for coming back to me.  Very puzzling - nothing to show for it at all.  I can only think that it is either something else altogether, or the ulcer takes a while to show.  Apparently sleeping on the affected side is how it can arise, but I seldom sleep on that side.

I have read that cartilage injuries can take a long while to heal because of the poor blood supply.  Perhaps I've injured it.

 

 

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Is it warm to the touch?

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No - so odd.  But it feels as if it should be.  It also feels as if I've been stung by a bee.  No sting.

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