[Aptorian]

Okay, my ears are seriously creeping me out.

I don't use q-tips, they're weird and I don't believe sticking something smaller than your finger in your ears is a smart idea with something as elegant as the mechanics of your ears inner workings. Normally I just stick a pinky in my ear during the shower and that does the trick.

Well, having a weird, blocked sensation in my ears resently (my hearing is shit) I decided I should probably do some... investigation.

I currently have a pile of used q-tips lying in my trashcan. Looking at the box I must have used about sixty, maybe seventy q-tips so far... AND THE Q-TIPS STILL KEEP COMING OUT WITH GUNK ON THEM!!! What the hell is inside there? 27 years worth of compiled ear-wax?!! How big are my ears? Do I have two caverns lodged at the side of my skull crammed to the brim with these foul brown earbuggers!?

I wonder if I'm going to develop superhearing after this. I must have lost half a pound just digging out this stuff.

[Macros]

hmmm.

I suggest warming a bit of oil in a tea spoon, lukewarm, if you can't dip your finger in it and dab it on your wrist, its too fucking hot.
lie on your side, with pillow under head.
Tip oil into ear, should clear blocked ear and aid in wax removal

[Ain't_It_Just_]

Is it genetically inherited? Try some of that ear-spray, the one people use as a substitute to cotton buds.

[Shinrei]

Or get those crazy wicken ear wax cones.

Sounds like you just have ear canals that don't self-regulate very well.

[Aptorian]

Ain't_It_Just_, on Feb 21 2009, 12:36 PM, said:

Is it genetically inherited? Try some of that ear-spray, the one people use as a substitute to cotton buds.

What? Ear-spray?

Well, my ears are kinda sore now, probably from rubbing a cotton stick against the inner walls of my ear for the seventy third time.

I'm just going to leave them alone in their super-conducting earwax growing might.

[Thelomen Toblerone]

Isnt there that ear-syringing thing you can get done where they suck it all out? I reccomend that, if it is.

[Aptorian]

I think the normal remedy is to use one of those suction thingies and squirt warm water into your inner ear and let the ear soak for a a couple of minutes and then suck it out.

But I don't have one of those.

[Ain't_It_Just_]

Aptorian, on Feb 21 2009, 10:38 PM, said:

Ain't_It_Just_, on Feb 21 2009, 12:36 PM, said:

Is it genetically inherited? Try some of that ear-spray, the one people use as a substitute to cotton buds.

What? Ear-spray?

Well, my ears are kinda sore now, probably from rubbing a cotton stick against the inner walls of my ear for the seventy third time.

I'm just going to leave them alone in their super-conducting earwax growing might.

I think this is it:

[Slum]

Aptorian, on Feb 21 2009, 06:15 AM, said:

Okay, my ears are seriously creeping me out.

I don't use q-tips, they're weird and I don't believe sticking something bigger than your finger in your ears is a smart

Your fingers are smaller than Q-Tips?

[Mezla PigDog]

Slumgullion Spitteler, on Feb 21 2009, 09:43 AM, said:

Your fingers are smaller than Q-Tips?

Yeah! That's what I was thinking. Apt and his freaky spindle fingers!

Have you had a cold recently Apt? That can cause earwax problems. You can get stuff called Otex over the counter and the pharmacy. It is hydrogen peroxide and you put a few drops in your ears, it reacts to form oxygen bubbles and it clears everything out. The stuff that comes out can be a tad traumatic. Mr PigDog wretched. I had one bad ear after an epic cold once and that stuff worked a treat.

[Aptorian]

Slumgullion Spitteler, on Feb 21 2009, 03:43 PM, said:

Aptorian, on Feb 21 2009, 06:15 AM, said:

Okay, my ears are seriously creeping me out.

I don't use q-tips, they're weird and I don't believe sticking something bigger than your finger in your ears is a smart

Your fingers are smaller than Q-Tips?

LIES! You saw nothing!

[alestar]

I couldn't decide which grossed me out more:

the description of the earwax you have been pulling out of your ears or the fact that you haven't cleaned your ears in 27 years!

[Aptorian]

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[Thelomen Toblerone]

You should have collected all the wax and fashioned it into an amusing Pharaoh-style beard.

[stone monkey]

Get your ears syringed. It'll work like a charm. You can do the warm oil thing too as it'll make it easier.

[Mentalist]

use a teaspoon of warm vodka if it starts to hurt.

otherwise, yeah, any clinic should be able to do the syringe thing. it's fairly quick and usually painless and it works.

[Aptorian]

I'm a guy, I don't to the doctor unless I lose a limb... or at least a digit.

[stone monkey]

If you let it build up much more you'll begin to get headaches that won't stop and your sense of balance will start to get a bit unreliable... Which is exactly what happened to me about six years ago. A nice lady in a rather fetching uniform syringed my ear, removing what appeared to be a waxy boulder from it, and everything was back to what passes for normal.

Get it done you wuss!

[Darkwatch]

Mentalist, on Feb 21 2009, 04:55 PM, said:

use a teaspoon of warm vodka if it starts to hurt.

This just made me chuckle.

[Thelomen Toblerone]

Strap a couple of thimbles to your ears, they can be like aural moon cups.