Alternately, I used olive oil and got a ball of wax out of my ear.
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Ugh I just stuck a qtip too deep into my ear
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Alternately, I used olive oil and got a ball of wax out of my ear.
Qtips and Domino's pizza, if I recall correctly.
Messofanego
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Wait, she puts it back in? What kind of fetish is that?!
I have like stupidly dry skin in my ears that tends to flake up and get incredibly itchy so I have no choice but to use a Q-tip. I don't push it right in there though, just the middle/outer ear portion. After getting my ear flushed at a doctor once and seeing how it's basically just warm water in a syringe I've since flushed my ears any time I feel like some wax has dislodged itself in there (in my case I can tell because I can feeling it bumping my eardrum, makes a light tapping noise). A Q-tip will pretty much never clean that back part of your ear so a simple flush is better.
maquiladora
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Clean ears.
Wait until 2:10...
Wait until 2:10...
vivftp
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I had a fair amount of wax to clear out a while back so here's how I did it.
I had some Bio Oil kicking about, so I put a few drops of that into my ears for a few days to get everything softened. Now my usual ear wax removal implements aren't exactly traditional. I use the back of a bobby pin (acts as a nice scoop) and I have a mini screwdriver where the end is shaped just like the tip of a screw (good for scraping to loosen things). I wasn't having as much luck as I normally would have liked to, so out of boredom I then just decided to jam a Q-tip in there. I'm afraid I did it a bit too hard, but fortunately it seems I did it JUST at the right angle to loosen the wax, rather than harm myself. Then using the mini screwdriver jammed into my ear, I pulled it out an found a lovely sheet of wax completely wrapped around the entire screwdriver head. It was dark brown, bordering on black so it must've been there for quite some time. In hindsight I should have taken a picture of it, but oh well. It was by far the most wax I'd ever gotten out of my ear, and when I rolled it into a ball, it had a diameter of about 8mm.... so a fair amount there!
Last doctors appt I had my ears checked out and they were squeaky clean
I had some Bio Oil kicking about, so I put a few drops of that into my ears for a few days to get everything softened. Now my usual ear wax removal implements aren't exactly traditional. I use the back of a bobby pin (acts as a nice scoop) and I have a mini screwdriver where the end is shaped just like the tip of a screw (good for scraping to loosen things). I wasn't having as much luck as I normally would have liked to, so out of boredom I then just decided to jam a Q-tip in there. I'm afraid I did it a bit too hard, but fortunately it seems I did it JUST at the right angle to loosen the wax, rather than harm myself. Then using the mini screwdriver jammed into my ear, I pulled it out an found a lovely sheet of wax completely wrapped around the entire screwdriver head. It was dark brown, bordering on black so it must've been there for quite some time. In hindsight I should have taken a picture of it, but oh well. It was by far the most wax I'd ever gotten out of my ear, and when I rolled it into a ball, it had a diameter of about 8mm.... so a fair amount there!
Last doctors appt I had my ears checked out and they were squeaky clean
So, to you (and the others in here who don't use q-tips)how do you clean out you ears?
Sounds about right
Basically. Ear wax is annoying as fuck, cleaning that shit out feels so good.
I've been using them my entire life, never had any pains or problems. The key is not jamming it too deep, which seems to be the OP's problem. Nice and gentle works!
Same. I find it gets very uncomfortable in my ears when I don't do this.
reading this thread right after seeing the episode was weird
maquiladora
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criesofthepast
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So this is safe?
The past year I've noticed increased ear wax production and I've been meaning to go to the doctor and ask what he thinks about it. I use qtips but only in the opening and not too deep. Before cutting my nails I usually go a bit deeper in my ear and use my nail to scoop out any wax deeper inside. But I've pulled out chunks the size of a pea. I'm a clean person and always keep clean but still notice wax continue to produce more than ever before. My hearing seems to have suffered a bit as some family members have noticed. Everyone keeps saying to go to the Dr and get them cleaned. Guess I should. Just want to know if increased production is linked to anything else or its just me getting older.
I had asked my doctor about this before. He said something along the lines of "Just don't do it. I've been to the emergency room to treat people with broken eardrums because of Q-tips waaaaaayyyyyy too often."
When asked about a safe way to clean ears, he gave me this:
When asked about a safe way to clean ears, he gave me this:
- Wet the corner of a handkerchief.
- Put the corner of the handkershief into your ear canal. (Maybe roll it up a little so that it goes inside?)
- Twist gently.
Save some cash and use a pen cap.
NEOPARADIGM
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Jiminy Cricket told me never to put anything in my ear sharper than my finger.
CrunchinJelly
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I never clean out my ears. Just let that shit come out naturally.
windowlurker
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Always have my girlfriend clean my ears out. It's one of the many ways we bond together.
Before her, Id always go to the family doctor and have them flush my ears out with hot water and some sort of solution. That felt sooooo good.
Before her, Id always go to the family doctor and have them flush my ears out with hot water and some sort of solution. That felt sooooo good.
I know, it was the very top thread in OT. I thought I was having deja vu or something. Crazy coincidence.
LittleBoots
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Doctors always advised me never to use qtips. Once I did the same thing as you did and ended up pushing wax farther into my ear so my hearing sounded very muffled. I ended up having to go to the doctor and they used this syringe squirter type thing to push warm water in my ear and suck it back out. It took a while but they got the big piece of wax that was interfering with my hearing.
Oh, and thread reminded me of when I watched this:
I'm sure there's a video on youtube of it somewhere.
This works like a charm and I've been doing it for quite some time.
Oh, and thread reminded me of when I watched this:
I'm sure there's a video on youtube of it somewhere.
BIGWORM
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Clean the CPU/GPU heatsink of thermal paste...with hydrogen peroxide, coincidentally.
betamax999
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Cleaning NES cartridges.
Bobby Roberts
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I have tiny ear canals. Super tiny. It's fucked up, and I hate it, and it led to an almost routine 3-4 year visit to an ear doctor to have them water-pik my ears so that I can hear, because what most people would consider normal wax-buildup was like that boulder from Raiders of the Lost Ark for me.
One trip to the doctor to get my shit cleared out consisted not of the water-pik, but a different instrument, a tiny, metal loop at the end of a 1-2 inch filament no thicker than a millimeter or two. One or two trips into my ear canal, and I could hear beautifully.
Basically - it was a bobby pin. I mean, it wasn't ACTUALLY a bobby pin, but functionally, it was 95% the exact same as a bobby pin.
Q-tips just pack that wax up against your eardrum until your head is basically constipated with bright orange bullshit blocking all sound from entering your skull. A bobby pin will, if carefully applied, scoop most of that shit right out of your brain.
Look - I'm not advocating you buy a bunch of bobby pins and go gently poking around in your ear canals to remove whatever excess gunk is building up in there.
But a tool that is able to actually REMOVE said gunk, as opposed to packing it into a growing wall of waxy nastiness huddled up against your eardrum? Seems like it might be an overall positive.
One trip to the doctor to get my shit cleared out consisted not of the water-pik, but a different instrument, a tiny, metal loop at the end of a 1-2 inch filament no thicker than a millimeter or two. One or two trips into my ear canal, and I could hear beautifully.
Basically - it was a bobby pin. I mean, it wasn't ACTUALLY a bobby pin, but functionally, it was 95% the exact same as a bobby pin.
Q-tips just pack that wax up against your eardrum until your head is basically constipated with bright orange bullshit blocking all sound from entering your skull. A bobby pin will, if carefully applied, scoop most of that shit right out of your brain.
Look - I'm not advocating you buy a bunch of bobby pins and go gently poking around in your ear canals to remove whatever excess gunk is building up in there.
But a tool that is able to actually REMOVE said gunk, as opposed to packing it into a growing wall of waxy nastiness huddled up against your eardrum? Seems like it might be an overall positive.
Messofanego
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Meh, I just use warm water in the shower and put my ear to the side. All these penetration alternatives sound like pseudoscience.
I just saw this the other day.
Funniest shit I seen in awhile...
XT Vengeance
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This. Also to dry out your ears after the shower. Just be careful.
EYEL1NER
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When I was young, my grandmother would call me over, have me put my head on her knees while she was seated, and then she would jam a bobby pin into my ear and dig around. That was some pretty painful stuff right there. I'll never look at a bobby pin again without thinking "Hey, that is one of those things grandma used to scrape my brain with."
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