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Does A Head Injury Cause Mastoiditis?

I was just diagnosed with mastoiditis. I m not aware of any chronic or acute ear infections in my history. I am 57 and excellent health, but with a 1in a million diagnoses of chronic recurrent multofocal osteomyelitis. Anyway, in July, strong friends were moving my 300 lb. treadmill. It was not a team effort. The treadmill was violent swung. My head got crushed, on the right, in front of my ear; on the left, in back of my ear. I ve had some clear CT scans since, up until this mastoiditis manifested in Sept on a flight descent into Kennedy airport. Excruciating pain and profound loss of hearing in my left ear! A couple misdiagnoses of, oh, it will clear up soon, it s just an ear infection, and now mastoiditis. Started Clarithromycin yesterday for 21 days but I have an intuitive sneaky feeling it could be related to the head trauma. Would appreciate your thoughts.
posted on Wed, 25 Oct 2017
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Hello and Welcome to ‘Ask A Doctor’ service. I have reviewed your query and here is my advice.

The presentation of narrated symptoms suggests that initial injury on treadmill involving mastoid region, which may manifest later on in terms of inflammation, when there is residual unhealed tissue remaining at the particular region and body's immune system could not clear it.

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Does A Head Injury Cause Mastoiditis?

Hello and Welcome to ‘Ask A Doctor’ service. I have reviewed your query and here is my advice. The presentation of narrated symptoms suggests that initial injury on treadmill involving mastoid region, which may manifest later on in terms of inflammation, when there is residual unhealed tissue remaining at the particular region and body s immune system could not clear it. Thanks. Take care.