1600mg a day is actually not that much. I have prescription for it for 800mg 4 or 5 times a day I believe too... but I agree, it's bad for your kidneys and your stomach!

Today it's gone down, and I only took half a 400 once today and it's almost back to normal... I would get pressure where it hurt and then it would go away, so I think it may have been a spider bite or pimple still... although no signs of a normal pimple or spider bite for that matter! Maybe a foreign object and my body was expelling it, either way my ear is getting better and I didn't need no doctor or antibiotics they would have likely put me on.