I had a black fly go into my ear. It was rather angry at the development, and began biting everything it could clamp onto. The pain was so severe my father had to carry me to his car, and then into his office. He was a doctor, thank gawd, and he got the little bastard out pronto.
My ex-mom-in-law had a roach crawl in her ear while she was sleeping. Had to have her sons drive her to the emergency room to get it out. I think they used mineral oil. She has been sleeping with earplugs ever since. Incident was about 1 1/2 years ago.
Wow. And all i could think of was…
<Ricardo Montelban> …Allow me introduce you to Ceti Alpha Five’s only remaining indigenous life form; what do you think? They’ve killed twenty of my people, including my beloved wife. Oh, not all at once, and not instantly, to be sure. You see, their young enter through the ears and wrap themselves around the cerebral cortex. This has the effect of rendering the victim extremely susceptible to suggestion. Later, as they grow, follows madness - and death… <Ricardo Montelban>
<Ricardo Montelban> …Allow me introduce you to Ceti Alpha Five’s only remaining indigenous life form; what do you think? They’ve killed twenty of my people, including my beloved wife. Oh, not all at once, and not instantly, to be sure. You see, their young enter through the ears and wrap themselves around the cerebral cortex. This has the effect of rendering the victim extremely susceptible to suggestion. Later, as they grow, follows madness - and death… <Ricardo Montelban>
AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
OMG GOD. I could have gone my entire life without ever knowing this occurs. I have the permanent heebie jeebies.
This is the wrong thread to read when your ear itches, just so you know. :smack:
I hate you.
I will never be able to sleep again. I thought this was going to be about gunk or pus or something that isn’t a G-D bug! coming out of your ear!
I have to go fill my ears up with QuikCrete now. Thanks.
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I think I’ve told this story before, but here goes again.
I was five, we lived in Munich, Germany. Mom was holding me one day when she noticed a strange musty odor coming from my mouth and nose. Not a normal kiddie bad breath smell.
She took me to the clinic on base and the doctor found several pieces of foam stuffed up each of my nostils. Way up in there.
“Nurse, please hand me my needle-nosed forceps.”
Can’t imagine how it got all up in there.
:::flash back to teeny Gazelle pulling pieces of foam out of teddy bear and carefully stuffing up her weetle nose:::
Does anyone know if its possible to physically remove your ears and still retain your hearing? Good god thats some foul stuff.
Ditto quietman.
Oh, and major ew ew ew ew ew ew ew.
Yeah now I really want to hear a story about a monster gob of earwax or something. Anybody got one?
:eek:
I guess earwax isn’t enough to keep those nasty critters from crawling inside. Does that mean cockroaches eat earwax? I hear they will eat just about anything.
Ugh.
I could post a picture of an insect encased in a giant gob of earwax. 
Looks just like amber.
Required reading about insects and ears:
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_111.html
Had to add my story about my friend, Jared, who got a moth stuck in his ear. Ya, it just flew in there really fast and got stuck. He was in my other friend’s mom’s backyard, tending to the garden or something. His friends that were there had him laying on his side in the bathroom, one was sitting on him and one had his foot resting on Jared’s head so he couldn’t jerk away while they gently tried to get it out with a pair of eyebrow plucking tweezers with out breaking it. They finally took him to the emergency room because that was the only place they knew that would have the right kind of tools to get it out.
Then, a year later, he was at the same friend’s dad’s house when another type of flying insect decided to fly straight at his ear hole while he was out in the backyard checking out the pond. This time they got it out with plain tweezers.
I’m not making this up.
One more thing: The friend whose houses they were called his dad the first time it happened for advice, because his father is an ENT. Dad said, “Just leave it in there, it will eventually disintegrate.” Ew.
I had a very similar experience when I was a kid. Mine was a sort of copper colored beetle, a little larger than a pea. My mom didn’t believe me and I was going totally insane and crying and stuff until it finally popped out. I slept with a pillow over my head for years after that.
I should add that the insect could fly, and that it lived and flew away. This is one of the reasons I was so scared… I figured it was gonna come after me again!
Yeah, I found a ladybird (ladybug)-sized brown beetle in my ear about a month ago; it was dead when it came out, with its legs tightly folded underneath.
I’ve had it happen to me.
Was lying in bed, just dozing off, when suddenly, whrrRRRRRR!!! Unbelievable noise in my right ear, of the Moth variety. I jumped out of bed – I may have screamed, I don’t remember. In the end I had to go to the after-hours emergency medical centre.
The worst thing, really, was that the moth was still very much alive in there, and just as panicked as me. It just kept on thrashing around, on and on. Not very nice to listen to. Sometimes it would stop, and I’d think, Maybe it’s dead. Please let it be dead. (Of course, that would have left me with a dead moth in my ear, which, depending on your point of view, could be worse.) But it’d always start up again – a desperate thrashing sound, right against my eardrum. (I’m starting to shiver, typing this.)
Finally someone saw me at the medical centre. They tried tweezers, initially, but the damn thing was in too deep. So they tried syringing my ear, repeatedly, flushing it out over and over again. At one point they did, in fact, manage to get a piece of moth wing out. (Along with, er, a fair bit of ear-wax. And I thought I kept my ears pretty clean! Dang.)
In the long run, though, it was no go. The moth was there to stay – although, after all the syringing, it was at least unmistakably dead. Eventually, out of ideas, they sent me and my new closest friend home.
They did, however, arrange for me to visit the hospital the next day. A doctor in the ENT department saw me, and used some kind of bizarre ear vacuum-cleaner thingumajig. The moth was going almost instantly.
All I can say is … if that never happens again, I’ll be glad.