Earaches.

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I'm so very tired of the pain... In my younger years, I had a lot of problems with earaches, and when I finally went to the hospital for it. They told me that the earaches were caused from getting water into them, and I was supposed to be taking these medicated eardrops, and wearing earplugs whenever I went swimming, or took a shower. Needless to say, while I did wear the earplugs when swimming, I could not stand trying to wearing them in the shower. And after I finished that first bottle of eardrops, we never refilled it. Too bloody expensive, I just decided I'd be extra careful with my ears, and make sure no water got into them. I've been a freak about it ever since, always wearing earplugs when swimming. And as soon as I get out of the shower, I run to clean and dry out my ears. It was working okay, I'd get small earaches every now and again, but they'd go away within a few hours. For the past two and a half weeks, I've had a constant earache. I have not been swimming, because it's freezing outside, after all, it is winter here. I had still been cleaning my ear after showers, and since this pain started, I haven't been taking showers. Just cleaning myself in the tub, and washing my hair in the sink so that it can get clean without the water running into my ears. As suggested by family members I tried putting a q-tip with peroxide on it into the opening of the ear, since it's supposed to help dry out any water that's in there. I've done it before, and then there was water, and I could tell by the popping, crackling sounds I heard. There was been no popping, no crackling. So I seriously don't think that water is the cause of this constant earache. I know what you're all probally thinking, so why haven't I gone to the doctor yet? Because I have no job, no health insurance, no money to pay a doctor's bill, and the free clinic around here doesn't do anything with ears. My ear throbs, it throws off heat, it's sensitive to sound, and touch. I just don't know what to do about it. I've been taking pain killers, which help to dull the ache, but of course pain killers don't fix problems. Does anyone have any suggestions that may help me? Other than the ones I've already mentioned, and BELIEVE ME, as soon as I can find a way that I could possibly see a doctor than I will. So please don't lecture me on that, I'm working on that, I need suggestions to help fill the time between that.