fizzelopeguss
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This is happening in your head right now.
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I think a bug may have crawled into my ear
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This is happening in your head right now.
It's Dangerous to go alone. Take this.
"I want to live inside your ear."
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So this thread exists.
Twenty7KVN
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Thanks now i'm going to check my headphones before i put them on now.Oh and go see a doctor.
Ugh, I watched that when I was a kid and it terrified me. ;_;
I'm the first one? Really?
Best of luck OP, this weekend I was working in the yard, and I must say these bugs freak me out.
This needs more love. :lol
Houston3000
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(._.), did you go to the hospital last night?
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Trancetronic
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You better hope it's not a Yeerk.
NO ONE CAN KNOW OUR SECRET ABOUT MORPHING INTO ANIMALS!
NO ONE CAN KNOW OUR SECRET ABOUT MORPHING INTO ANIMALS!
Hey man, you coming to the Sharing?
Live Free or Die
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just suck it out with a vacuum hose.
Trancetronic
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Vissers unite
One night I heard a weird noise like a bird flapping its wings next to my head. Then I felt a tickle that started around my ear and moved across my face. I jumped up, turned on the light, and there was a giant cockroach in my bed that had been crawling on my face. Took me two weeks to sleep peacefully again.
ohh fuck
yea this is messed up im going to emergency care.
No go to a walk in clinic.
All emergency will do is make you wait 5 hours, do whatever they need to do in 10 minutes, and then charge you 3 grand.
I saw one of them "Untold Stories of the ER" and this guy was brought in screaming in terror.
He was conscious, but he wasn't responding to them.
Every few minutes he would burst out into a shrieking fit, and then stop.
They were just about to put him out of his misery when they noticed that there was blood dripping from his ear. A bug exactly like the one in the OP had crawled into his ear and was biting, clawing, and tearing at his eardrum. He was paralyzed with fear for hours upon hours, in excruciating pain.
They tried to pull the bug out but it only burrowed deeper into his ear. Eventually it got to his brain and laid eggs in there. He contracted some sort of fever and died after months of agony. Either that or they were able to pull it out and he was immediately better. I forget which.
He was conscious, but he wasn't responding to them.
Every few minutes he would burst out into a shrieking fit, and then stop.
They were just about to put him out of his misery when they noticed that there was blood dripping from his ear. A bug exactly like the one in the OP had crawled into his ear and was biting, clawing, and tearing at his eardrum. He was paralyzed with fear for hours upon hours, in excruciating pain.
They tried to pull the bug out but it only burrowed deeper into his ear. Eventually it got to his brain and laid eggs in there. He contracted some sort of fever and died after months of agony. Either that or they were able to pull it out and he was immediately better. I forget which.
Dreams-Visions
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"some protection" /= they don't eat ear wax
And upon further inspection...
fuck this!
yes, well I called my doctors office just to see if anybody was there and they actually have have an overnight staff which I often forget they have. just one doctor and a couple nurses. When I called, the woman that answered the phone made me feel like one of those idiots that constantly goes to the doctor whenever the slightest thing unsettles them. Why would I wait till morning for something like this? couldn't it crawl further? Yea, a bug crawls into your ear and you don't have a roommate so nobody can get it out for you at 1 am... what would you do woman? yea shut the fuck up. Maybe it was just me but it felt like she was downgrading me.
Anyways went there and I was in and out in like 15 minutes. Doctor used one of those scope things to look and said there was one in my ear. Man that made me want to faint !_!
All he did was use a lot of ear drops then was able to slowly get it out by spreading my ear and using tweezers. I could hear it when he started messing with it. fucked up and I don't really wanna talk about it anymore lmao :[
got home at like 2:20 and went to bed. woke up at 12 am still freaked but I'm ok now. think I'm going to be charged for the doctor too, damn...
Should have taken the bug and slapped it on the front desk for that nurse.
And then knocked over a magazine rack on your way out.
Glad you're ok! That sounds so scary ): I always sleep with my duvet covering my ears. I just can't sleep without that. It's not because of the bugs or sound, just can't sleep if I have that area uncovered, kinda weird.
Uno Venova
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:lol
Jayayess1190
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4 posts above...
Does anyone ever check the date and times posts are made?
Holy shit OP, that sounds like the worst experience ever. It's a good thing you went quick and they got it out before it got worse. I don't even want to think about how it must sound to hear that thing moving around in your ear, ughhh.
Reading this thread me me feel so uncomfortable.
RumblingRosco
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I love your username. I have nothing else to contribute to this topic.
Did it sound like a thousand screaming children? Like the gates of hell itself had opened up in your ear and was trying to pull you in?
Cause if so I might have earmites.
I just noticed that this thread doesn't even contain the video of some doctor removing a live cockroach out of someone's ear: Might not be suited for everyone
Ignis Fatuus
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I told you dude. Good thing you got it out before it started pinching.
Great. Now I'm paranoid. I suddenly feel the need to sleep in a spacesuit.
We were camping many years back. About 25 years ago now. Anyways, my Mom and I are walking in the woods and suddenly something zips by and my Mom grabs her head. What happened was a moth flew into my Mom's ear somehow.
Started flapping around like crazy beating her ear drum and we run back to the camp site and my step dad pours a bunch of rum in her ear to try and kill it. It worked. We left early and went back to the city to see a doctor ASAP. She got it out of her ear when the doc used super long bent tweezers. It was fucking huge once they got it out.
My Mom is already deaf in that ear from a mumps incident as a child. However, she was told if the ear had been good prior to the moth flying in there she would now be deaf in that ear.
Started flapping around like crazy beating her ear drum and we run back to the camp site and my step dad pours a bunch of rum in her ear to try and kill it. It worked. We left early and went back to the city to see a doctor ASAP. She got it out of her ear when the doc used super long bent tweezers. It was fucking huge once they got it out.
My Mom is already deaf in that ear from a mumps incident as a child. However, she was told if the ear had been good prior to the moth flying in there she would now be deaf in that ear.
AzureNightmare
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a bug in the ear is better than a bug up the ass.
ohh fuck
yea this is messed up im going to emergency care.
My question is, why the fuck didn't you go to begin with? is this world we live in? really?
I once swallowed a fly while on my bike. I could feel it trying to fly inside of my stomach. After I drank a little water, it stopped.
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I once swallowed a fly while on my bike. I could feel it trying to fly inside of my stomach. After I drank a little water, it stopped.
Like a boss!
Choke on the Magic
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Is it an aphid?
about 10 years ago, i had a moth fly right into my ear.
i freaked the fuck out mostly cause of the noise. it was so god damn loud and annoying as it was clearly struggling to get out. my parents tried to flush it out with water to no avail. we went to the ER. there was someone taking my temp and shit and i was like wtf, there's a god damn moth in my ear making the loudest noise. i don't have a god damn fever.
when i got the dr he just pretty much took a pair of tweezers and yanked it out. he said most people try to flush them out with water and that's bad because it ends up pushing them back. i kind of snickered, but apparently the water was doing jack shit because the bug was dry.
I thought i would go deaf in that ear that night. from the time it happened to when i got it out was probably a good 20-25 mins of loud ass wing flapping.
i freaked the fuck out mostly cause of the noise. it was so god damn loud and annoying as it was clearly struggling to get out. my parents tried to flush it out with water to no avail. we went to the ER. there was someone taking my temp and shit and i was like wtf, there's a god damn moth in my ear making the loudest noise. i don't have a god damn fever.
when i got the dr he just pretty much took a pair of tweezers and yanked it out. he said most people try to flush them out with water and that's bad because it ends up pushing them back. i kind of snickered, but apparently the water was doing jack shit because the bug was dry.
I thought i would go deaf in that ear that night. from the time it happened to when i got it out was probably a good 20-25 mins of loud ass wing flapping.
You'd think so, but not what we were told. Doctor said it flew in at such a high speed that it really damaged her ear drum. Doesn't matter anyway she was already deaf in that ear.
It was luck of the draw. Walking in the flight path I guess.
Edit- See above is more what you'd expect from a moth invasion. My Mom's case is not typical I'm sure.
suddenly this thread is freaking me out
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