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DECONGESTANTS. Your Eustachian tubes are plugged by drainage or

Posted By: Anon on 2006-03-09
In Reply to: Working while sick! - popping ears

by swelling, and you could get a REAL nasty earache if you can't get the swelling down and the nose/sinuses drained. Lots of HOT fluids to make the drainage thinner. Chicken soup. Tea. (Rum and coke?) just kidding, that would hurt.


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Mine is sinus drainage. Ugh.
Nothing I can figure out makes it go away. It hurts and I'm deaf in my left ear right now. A few more days, I should be right as rain, it is April!
..down the tubes. Much different now than
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If America's prosperity goes down the tubes,
we not only WON'T be able to help people in other countries, we'll also stop caring.


Healthcare in America is going down the tubes...
"This is a horrible thing that I read up there and I would like to see what they will try next, maybe have lawyers enter data instead of court reporters? Would you want a lawyer or doctor who wasted their education and time entering data? All of these methods are put forward by "middlemen" who see where they can entice the medical profession into "saving a buck." That savings might cost them plenty in the long haul when their documentation is in questionable shape. If they use it they better be ready for plenty of trouble and humiliation when their "second class documentation" is available for public review to say nothing of the compromise in patient care. "

I can't wait to see what it will be like once the conversion is complete. My boss loves to report in meetings how doctors who used to dictate thousands of lines are now doing less than 50 and how GREAT that is. Let's just see how those records will look and the quality of care patient's will recieve if a doctor is more busy on a laptop than focusing on the patient. What a joke.
I have drainage too and a ton of ear wax! YUK! I lavage my ears with a bulb syringe and warm saline

about once a month or they will start to itch something fierce.  Nobody tells you about the ear hazards of being an MT, do they?  I also have to deal with recurrent bouts of labrynthitis which my doc has said may be a side effect of ear phones in my ears all day long! 


We should get hazard pay or worker's comp! 


I have them plugged in to my speakers.
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Oh, they did for me! I just recently plugged my

instead of my junky speakers, and what a difference!!!  Can't believe I've gone this long thinking that it was DQS that was all the problem with the degradation in sound quality since going from using a C-phone. 


I assume that better speakers would have to make a difference, because mine are super cheap.  But for now I'm just staying with my headphones through the computer speaker plug (and with a Turtle Beach Audio Device as well now). 


My C-phone is plugged into my router.
You have to have a VoIP router in order for that to work. You can get one at WM or any office supply store. Good luck.
I don't think you have to configure anything. I always am plugged into tower, but can do either.
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I let it dry overnight and plugged it in this morning
and it made crazy noises. I took what I felt comfortable apart and used a blow dryer, but none of the buttons work. It has a dial tone and the face looks normal, but no buttons at all work.

I am in Houston too.

I am so careful with that thing, but my daughter got hurt really bad when she fell on her arm. I was trying to get her to move her arm to make sure it wasn't broken and she started kicking. She hit my glass of water and some got in it before I could catch it.
No it is just a standard pedal, I just plugged it into - sm
the USB port on the front of my computer since they were easier to get to than the ones on the back. I have never heard of any where you plug your keyboard into the footpedal.
I have my headphones plugged directly into
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Reboot without the headset plugged in.

Then plug the headset in. Give it some time to find the headset. If this doesn't work, try checking the Device Manager. In XP it's Start, Control Panel, System, Hardware, Device Manager. Scroll down to Universal Serial Bus controllers. Click on the plus sign and see if anything is "crossed out" in that list. First try to right click and check the Properties. If it is not working proerly try the Troubleshoot button. Click on the Driver tab and update the driver. If neither of these work, go back to the Device Manager, right click on the USB port in question and Scan for Hardware changes. If none of these work , uninstall the driver. Remove the headset from the USB port and then plug it back in and see if the computer can now find it and install the driver.


If you're plugging the headset in and unplugging it without removing without the "safely remove hardware" icon in the lower right hand corner of your screen, you are disabling the USB port until the computer is restarted again. Always use the hardware removal tool!


Sounds like you have your headset plugged
into the wrong hole.  As far as the foot pedal you need to calibrate it.  Open Express Scribe and go to settings and under settings there is pedal and hot keys.  Open that and then follow the directions for calibration.  That should work and if it doesn't maybe your foot pedal isn't compatible with Express Scribe. 
mine did this and my headphones weren't plugged in all the way nm

Actually, I leave mine plugged in while working

Most of the time my laptop is plugged in. Sometimes I unplug it to play games in bed or if we are having a storm.


I wondered about purchasing a battery back up in addition, even if you can do that with a laptop that already has a battery built in, which I don't know. :) This is my first laptop and I have only had it for about two months.


Does anyone have their earphones plugged into their tower instead of speakers?? (sm)
I have a coworker who does not have an earphone plug-in on her speakers but she does on her tower.  Does anyone know how to configure this to be able to hear through her earphones when plugged into the tower?  Thank you in advance. 
Cable will not work if your modem has to be plugged in.
When I had cable internet, it did not work during a power outage because the cable modem had to be plugged in, so no power meant no internet. Now I have wireless broadband that does not require power and I just keep my laptop always charged up. So if we lose power, I can easily just switch over to my laptop without losing too much time.
so, you have dial up for internet? plugged into your phone line.
and your foot pedal has a phone line plug too? Thats odd, cuz normally it would be a USB plug. but yes, you can by an outlet to install, i had to do the same thing a long time ago on a different computer. it was called something like an eathernet adapter....you should be able to take the foot pedal to radio shack adn they will give you exactly what you need.
No dial tone? No foot control? What's wrong? Are all parts plugged in? Is your phone
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I have a two way adapter that is plugged into the phone line. One goes from the adapter into the
router provided by the DSL company and the other goes from the adapter directly into the phone that I have connected.  The phone needs to be connected so I can re-record (which still works for me thankfully).  I was wondering if I unplug the phone line and plug that into the back of my computer if that would work but then I would have to have work call before faxing and change the hookup after which would be a royal pain.  If you can give me another way to hook this up it would make my life so much easier.  Thanks.