No I don’t have fatal familial insomnia, but I have just been swimming and came to the lab to work on my courseworks. I felt something in the outer part of my ear, and pulling it out found it to be a beetle encased in wax and swimming in fluid.
I shit you not.
I had felt something in there recently but thought it was just a waxy build up. Anyway can this sneaky little critter have caused me any harm while it was in there? Laying eggs or eating my brain or something? It was an orangy little bugger, like a common house beetle. I suppose it is remotely possible that he was already floating in the pool, and found his way into my ear, but then my ear feels a lot different (in a good way I hope)since I pulled him out.
Do not, under any circumstances, see the film Mountains of the Moon (I think that is the title).
A character in the film gets an insect in his ear that he cannot remove, it begins to drive him crazy…and out in the middle of the desert, with no other means…let’s say he was forced to use a long sharp piece of metal and he was deaf in one ear afterwards…
Had me squirming in my seat long after the scene was over!
My sympathies to you…I know I once had a problem and they removed ear wax and I was also grossed out to see how much was in there (although the doctor said it was nothing out of the ordinary).
Do you mean one of those little ladybug look-alike beetles that swarm all over the midwest every year, or are you talking about something out of Star Trek - The Wrath of Khan?
Seriously, if the same thing had happened to me, and there was no pain and my hearing seemed normal, I wouldn’t worry about it unless that “different” feeling lasted more than a week or so.
And no, I’m not a doctor or anything, that’s just what I’d do.
I saw a movie a long time ago as a kid (might have been an episode of some freaky tv show like Outer Limits). An insect enters a man’s ear and starts chewing its way to the other ear over the course of weeks or months. They have to tie him down to a bed because the pain is so great. Finally, the insect comes out and the man is starting to recover BUT then the doctor tells him it was a female and had lain eggs inside his head. Really freaky story for a young kid.
This guy was a cocaine addict with too much money who would tend to get a little paranoid at the end of a long cocaine binge. Each and every time he would know that there was a bug in his ear and would present himself in a state of panic to the nearest ER to have it removed. Of course, they never found a bug but that means nothing to the delusional. He would go from hospital to hospital trying to find a doctor who could remove the bug. He wouldn’t give up until he came down from the coke.
The funny part was that each time he started a binge, he would tell himself, “You know this is going to end badly. You are going to wind up taking a tour of all the emergency rooms in Manhattan.” He told the tale with a lot of self-deprecating humor and had us rolling on the floor.
When I saw the subject of your post, the first thing I thought to say was, “Lay off the coke, man.”
No joke: