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Ear Wax buildup
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Hi guys. Lately, I've had a bad wax buildup in one ear, and it was starting to get on my nerves again. I know it's wax buildup because I've had it a few times before - being a lead guitarist I'm exposed to alot of loud music and I'm always poking to get wax out, which I know doesn't help, but it's force of habit. Anyway, I've took drops in the past and it's cleared up. This time, I've taken drops and olive oil and I've gone half deaf! It's exactly like when you get off a plane and you're waiting for your ears to pop. Anybody else had this with ear drops? Can it be normal? I'm going on holiday in 2 days and I need this sorted...
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It's okay, I'm driving, not flying. I just meant I don't want this bugging me for the whole of the holiday or it will piss me off! I reckon it's probably too short notice for my useless doctor now...
No!
Or I think walk in centres do it.
You swim alot right? Have you ever experienced anything like this taking drops or whatever?
Fairly frequently you get water stuck in your ear, happens more with a build up of ear wax. Basically you just have to wait for it to escape/evaporate and until that point it'll irritate you. If that's what it is the things sound like you've got your head under water.
What sometimes helps is drying the inside of your ear, nothing hard like an cotton bud as that will just push any wax further in, but toilet roll sometimes does the trick.
Generally though, you need to get the wax sorted.
Thanks for the info...
Yeah? How do you deal with it?
:no: Do not do that. Only highly trained proffessionals in health should put anything in your ear. (Yeah stop poking about at the wax,you've obviously made it worse:rolleyes: ).
I've heard that one of the contra-indications in that candle wax thing is if the person has a perfirated ear-drum... there is no way they can check if you have one or not, and not everyone knows when they have one, so it's really quite dangerous.
One of my ears keeps blocking. It's really annoying. I went to the chemist and talked to one of the pharmasits and she gave me these super strength eardrops. Maybe you need to try out a different type of eardrop.
But when you have time, definatly go to the doctor... as it's a recurring thing it's going to irritate the hell out of you if you don't get it sorted properly.
The previous time my ears got blocked was when id had a bath and submerged my ears. The nurse said that they were blocked because when the water meets the ear wax, the wax tends to expand! I dont know wether she was trying to scare me though..