Stick with the professionals. I didn’t regret it.
I know exactly why.
Some times you have to share the pain to cope with your own.
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Oh relax, it will come out eventually.
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Should I click it? I don’t wanna click it.
Should I click it? I don’t wanna click it.
I clicked it.
WHY DID I CLICK IT !!!
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i wonder if they do sinuses
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What about belly buttons? It can nasty in those deep innies.
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If your empathy with children living in poverty should ever wane, just think of the frightening frequency with which small roaches crawl into ear canals, cannot turn around or back out, and flail uncontrollably until they die.
Pulling them out is unpleasant for all involved.
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From my personal experience, the best low tech way to deal with this is fill the ear canal with water. Bug should float up, though if they’re a bit more tenacious you can use a syringe with water and very carefully and gently coax it up. At the ER option one worked, literally took like 2 seconds
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Some places would use lidocaine in the ear canal, too. Numbs the pain and kills the bug. Never had the good fortune of floating to the top.
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Interesting instructional video. Supplementary, written material may be ordered, titled “Care & Feeding of Your Jungle Grub”.
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This is a new low for the internet and it’s stupid fucking click, click, click tricks. And remember that it was pretty damn low to begin with.
I suffer from occasional wax build-up (and I have narrow ear canals, I’m told) which starts to ache and affect my hearing, usually in one ear at a time. Maybe once or twice a year, I use warm water and a turkey baster to flush it out. Takes about 30mins of rather boring, mesmeric squirting over the bath tub until I am rewarded with a conical plug of perhaps 1cm long and my hearing returns to normal. You do need to be careful thoroughly to dry out the canal after (I pour a few drops of rubbing alcohol in and then apply gentle hair dryer for about 10mins).
That is all.
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My luck, it would just keep going…eating whatever it found along the way.
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If it eats nasal polyps, where do I sign up?
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Ear-lier or ear-liar, is that is the question?
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The cotton-buds of outrageous fortune,
Or to take liqid Arms against a Sea of earwax
And by opposing end them: to flush instead to sweep
No more; and by a flush, to say wax ends
the ear-ache, and the thousand natural shocks
that Flesh is heir to? 'Tis a consummation
devoutly to be wished. To flush instead to sweep!
To sweep, perchance to Dream a Nightmare; aye, there’s the grub…
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Just don’t try to take the insect out with a knife. That didn’t work out well for John Hanning Speke at all.
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Didn’t he shoot himself, and not in the head?
Clearly not a way to remove earwax.
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