I got my hearing back!

Yesterday, after a month of feeling that my ears were plugged up, I went to the doc; he peered in both ears and told me that I had a lot of earwax in there. A young nurse spent twenty minutes with a syringe and a hydrogen peroxide solution, and eventually two big ol’ balls of wax were extracted.

And now I can hear high frequencies again. The first thing I noticed when I got back to work was that instead of going “cluck”, my mouse button went "klik’. My keyboard clicked too. My co-worker sounded different. The office air conditioning sounded different.

And my shower this morning was like bathing in diamonds. It was spectacular!

On the bad side, I guess those buzzy rattles in the back doors of my beloved Suzuki didn’t go away on their own, after all… :wink:

Haha, well, congratulations!

Had to be irrigated in college once. I couldn’t believe the size of the wax nodule that came out. It was as big as the tip of my pinky finger. Walking back to the dorms from the infirmary that night, I swear, I could hear the bats echo-locating.

I’ve been having some minor problems with my ears lately. I have an over-the-counter ear wax dissolving solution which helps a lot, but I suspect it isn’t addressing the whole situation, so may need to have them checked out next time I visit the Doc.

In my experience, GuanoLad, self-irrigating isn’t hard to do. Use the drops (Debrox or whatever) for several days to a week to get things softened up in there, then use a regular bulb irrigator and warm water to flush it all out. I have to do this from time to time. The drops alone won’t really get anything out, they just loosen it a bit.

Edit: IANAD, this is not medical advice, etc.

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I’ll second the OTC product. It softens the wax and the warm water does the rest. It may take a couple of treatments, but it works well. Many people who have been exposed to loud noises in their line of work have this problem, as the body’s defense mechanism kicks in to produce wax. Unfortunately, you can’t shut it off and it plagues you your whole life.

There is a very inexpensive and simple solution to this problem. Turn up the radio. :wink:

I can’t imagine what you were experiencing that elicited the simile “like bathing in diamonds,” but I so want to experience that, too!

Me too! I love the way you worded that.

I don’t. Diamonds are sharp!

And they get into the darndest places!

I’m cursed with earwax problems too. Apparently my ear canals are on the narrow side of normal. They block up periodically, especially if I get soap or shampoo in ‘em. I used to go to the doctor who would spend a long time syringing and peering with the scopey thing, tut tutting and syringing some more. Not that that wasn’t fun an’ all but I usually just use the OTC drops now. I get some largish bits of dry skin working their way out in the days following the drop treatment. :eek:

What?

I have the waxiest ears on the planet. I am the Earl of Ear-Wax. I can out-wax the waxiest Vulcan that ever lived. There’s no cure. None of the OTC stuff does jack. My wax is rock-hard and immovable by ordinary instruments. Every couple of years I have to go the doctor, and it takes them several tries and several stifled “Holy shits” before they remove a pinky-sized granite-hard plug from each ear. God, it’s embarrassing.