# Should I try ear candling, or not? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 12, 2001, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-try-ear-candling-or-not/75863 "2001-08-12T01:29:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2001, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-try-ear-candling-or-not/75863/41 "2001-08-13T22:13:44Z")
No MC, I didn’t. And I don’t think I want to. :eek: Oh yeah, my ear FINALLY cleared up. Sheesh! Never did get the stool softener, though. Just kept on with the Murine, and last night it finally opened up. Now I feel like I can hear the rings of Saturn buzzing. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2001, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-try-ear-candling-or-not/75863/42 "2001-08-13T23:26:28Z")
yes, i did mc and the buttcandle brought a whole new meaning to “hot flaming enemas, batman.” ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2001, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-try-ear-candling-or-not/75863/43 "2001-08-14T00:31:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by waxteeth \* > \*\* > > Although I wasn’t in pain I had lost all hearing in one ear and it was driving me batty. I broke down and went to the Doctor. If you could see the amount of junk he pulled out of my ear you would understand that no drops, or candles could ever remove all of that. He used suction, and pressure with a water pick type of thing to remove the goo. > At one point he reached in with some tweezers and said he was going to remove the “plug”. Removing it restored my hearing immediately. > \*\* I had that done when I was 14. I _told_ my parents that I had put a pebble in my ear when I was 3(I didn’t tell them when I was three, I mean I told them I had done it then) but no one believed me until the doctor pulled it out with the tweezers 11 years later… That improved my hearing, too 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2001, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-try-ear-candling-or-not/75863/44 "2001-08-14T01:55:58Z")
Is ear candling like egg candling? Do you shine a light in one ear and look in the other to see if there’s anything in there? 😉 Careful that you do not have my wife put in the ear drops. I warm them by keeping the bottle in my armpit for a few minutes. She warms them under hot water and wonders why you run screaming from agony when she puts them in. Damn, that hurts! ---
**Author:** ![kellibelli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e480ec/32.png) [@kellibelli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kellibelli)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2001, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-try-ear-candling-or-not/75863/45 "2001-08-14T05:11:35Z")
> [@](#): > > What have you got to lose? This is like someone telling > me, “You can cure cancer by eating one chocolate chip > cookie a week.” I don’t believe it for a second, but > it’s a great excuse to do something I’d like to try > anyway. Well Haiku boy, giving people false hopes about false treatments _ **IS** _ harmful as they often replace _ **REAL** _ treatments with googoo juice and shark fin extract, _then they die._ Without a doubt, (trolls included) that is the SINGLE most IGNORANT thing I have read on this board in over two years. Congratulations. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-try-ear-candling-or-not/75863.md?page=2)