Yeah, I remember thinking: “What’s that strange rushing noise I keep hearing? Oh, that’s probably called ‘wind’.” 
20 posts, and no one’s mentioned the Buddy Hackett method?
My pediatrician uses stool softener in my son’s ears. Then rinses it out with the ear irrigator.
I can’t decide if that’s disgusting, or genius.
Ewwwww. I must have that done.
Well, sometimes it’s the only way to get that crap out!
d&r
My wife and I laughed our butts off, but no wax shot out of my ears! 
Thank you, 3waygeek for the laugh!!! 
BTW, I loved Buddy’s humor!
Q
Sometimes, when us old guys think we’re getting hard of hearing, it may just be wax in there.
I cannot begin to describe to y’all how wonderful it was to hear the right side speaker of my car in true stereo as I listened to Debussy’s Prelude To The Afternoon Of A Fawn!
I suppose we take our senses for granted sometimes, don’t we?
Thanks
Quasi
The Dr. Oz show? talking about earwax, he had a demonstration on his own ears, woman from the audience put 3 drops of baby oil into his ear with an eyedropper while he was lying down. Lie there for a minute, do the other side, and when done just wipe out the oil/melted earwax with a cloth. He said do this 2-3 times a week. I paid careful attention because one or the other of my ears is very waxy and gets plugged up in the morning just from the pressure of sleeping on a pillow.
If your ear is getting plugged from resting on a pillow then you need to pay close attention to this thread and not Dr. Oz. Go ahead and try the Dr. Oz method, but ultimately you should get them cleaned out by a nurse just to see how much better your hearing will be.
Your ears are already plugged, you just don’t know it.
I think I’m gonna go and get mine flushed out again. (Warning – for those who have their doctors do this, wear a raincoat, or at least bring a towel – you’ll get soaked)
I’m going to try the hydrogen peroxide this afternoon. I need to get mine cleaned out and I don’t have insurance anymore to go to the doc and have them flush it out.
I use hydrogen peroxide occasionally. Although, I should let it build up so I won’t have to listen to my noisy neighbors.
Seconding this. The issue I was having with my right ear was that it always got “stuffed up” when I was lying down, enough that my hearing was noticeably fuzzy until it “popped” open again. When I asked my doc about it, he took one look and said it was earwax – and so much of it that he “[couldn’t] even see the eardrum.”
It took me an entire afternoon working on it to clear it out (see my method above), but I finally got the gunk dislodged – and he was right, the plug was huuuuge. TMI, maybe, but while it came out in two or three pieces, all together the thing was about the size of a decent-sized peanut. No wonder it was messing up my ear.
Genius.
Why can’t it be both, like the late Earl Warren?