Pain in the ear

I woke up Wednesday morning with a shooting pain in my ear. After a couple of days with a cold, evidently I slept in the same position all night and the drainage made its way into a pool around my tender cochlea. Which responded by turning beet red and ringing.

So a visit to the doctor yielded 10 days of the largest pill I've ever seen (see right). I have to swallow this thing twice a day (the quarter is just for perspective -- I do not have to swallow the quarter).

The good news is that it kicked in pretty quickly and my ear is feeling much better, though it does feel like I have a suction cup over my ear canal. The bad news is that this anti-biotic pretty much wrecks my bowels. I know.. TMI? Feel my pain.