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[–] Mora@pawb.social 5 points 23 hours ago

As someone who has them quite often: the weird thing is the pain level varies wildly between each infection. One time the doc had to tell me I had an ear infection as it was painless - another time it felt like someone was ramming a dagger into my skull at a 5 second intervall.