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Original poster

to wish I was prone to earwax build-up...

69 replies

LauraStora · 29/03/2014 18:14

...so that I could have the satisfaction of having my ears syringed/using olive oil/ear drops - and then have everything sounding suddenly louder and get to see the gunk I had accumulated. Basically I fantasise about earwax. Am I an irredeemable pervert?

OP posts:
CPtart · 29/03/2014 20:31

Apparently some pharmacies will syringe them too, at £20.00 per ear! Think I might set up in private practice.

LokiDokey · 29/03/2014 20:31

I posted a thread last week with the contents of my left ear after it was flushed. Good god that was a satisfying day. I'll find the link for you Grin

LokiDokey · 29/03/2014 20:32

Here you go.

Major KLAXON though, don't click if you don't like ear gunk hehe

99redbafoons · 29/03/2014 20:35

Holy shit Donkey. Shock

99redbafoons · 29/03/2014 20:35

Dokey, not donkey. Soz. Blush

LokiDokey · 29/03/2014 20:37
Grin I can hear a pin drop at 200 yards lately. I really want to buy one of those machines and just go and randomly flush out peoples ears.
youbethemummylion · 29/03/2014 20:41

I love the feeling of being able to hear again as being half deaf anyway it doesnt take much earwax to leave me completely deaf but is it only me who has uncontrolable coughing fits while having my ears syringed the nurse always looks at me aghast as I cough and splutter through it.

MeepMeepVroooom · 29/03/2014 20:41

That is phenomenal, I need to retrain so I can do this as a job.

LokiDokey · 29/03/2014 20:44

I've not had mine done before. I thought I'd got an ear infection because when I burped or yawned (2 things I seemingly do a lot) it bloody hurt. Went to see the nurse and she said both ears were so built up she was amazed I could hear.
After replying 'pardon?' she told me it was because I wear ear plugs at night (DH snores like a jackhammer) and I force the wax down with the plugs and it embeds.

Looking forward to next time already!!

MeepMeepVroooom · 29/03/2014 20:47

Is it wrong that I want to go and buy ear plugs now?

Mandy2003 · 29/03/2014 20:51

Like chuck's DS I had a big chunk just fall out of an ear once. I was horrified! But it has never happened again. Can't even find a significant amount with a cotton bud Sad

NoArmaniNoPunani · 29/03/2014 20:52

The last time I had mine syringed the lump that came out was like a beetle

MilestoneMum · 29/03/2014 21:14

When I was about 17 I thought I had gone deaf, I couldn't even hear my alarm clock, so I went to the doctors and he said the whole ear was full of wax. The nurse syringed it and the whole kidney dish was swimming with orange gunk, she said she had never seen anything like it!

I had thought it odd that when I rubbed my ear when doing homework, balls of wax would fall on my papers...Grin

I'd love to have them syringed again but doc said there is no build up and I feel weirdly disappointed.

MissBetseyTrotwood · 29/03/2014 21:25

Ah, when ds sees his audiologist (consultant) she loves a good pick of his ears. She told me once that the testers should do it but because she finds it so satisfying she always insists! She has a little tiny scraper tool thingy and we have to do drops/oil for a day or two before. The goo that comes out is highly satisfying.

Original poster
LauraStora · 29/03/2014 22:01

I have found people like me!

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MeepMeepVroooom · 29/03/2014 22:11

I'm so jealous of all you lot who get your ears syringed Sad

Fissawissa · 29/03/2014 22:22

Ooh I love a good dig in people's ears! When I was a kid I had these small metal Mr Men tins. I went to stay with my nanna for a few weeks & I managed to fill one up with her ear wax!
DH thinks I'm weird Shock

MeepMeepVroooom · 29/03/2014 22:27

Ok... Now I like doing it but I draw the line at keeping it Grin

Just going to throw this out there to see if there is a link, any of you fellow earwax loving ladies ever pick someone else's scabs or peel sunburnt skin?

Ememem84 · 29/03/2014 22:34

Anyone want to do mine? Ears feel all blocked. Gah

DramaAlpaca · 29/03/2014 22:39

I've had to have my ears syringed a couple of times. I hate it. Like a poster above it gives me vertigo & makes me vomit. I like the pin sharp hearing afterwards, though.

DrCoconut · 29/03/2014 22:50

I had a huge lump of earwax fall out when I was about 13 or 14. It was the size of a marble! It really itched and when I went to give it a poke there was a big squidgy thing there. Yuck. Never had them syringed though.

Panzee · 29/03/2014 23:34

Man I love,this thread. :o

Thisvehicleisreversing · 30/03/2014 02:00

I had a lovely ear syringing on holiday a few years ago. My ears were totally blocked and I hadn't been able to get an appointment at my GP's before my holiday. When we got to the holiday camp I noticed there was a little health centre there so I asked if they could do my ears.

A gorgeous doctor who smelt divine spent ages clearing me out. I skipped out of the health centre. Grin

cardamomginger · 30/03/2014 02:17

Meep definitely Grin.

I got badly sunburnt on my arms a few years ago, and when it got to the peeling stage, I went to a dance class. The sweat caused the peeling skin on my arms to bubble up. It was fantastic.

Sadly, my ears, and DH's, are pretty wax free.

Poughle · 30/03/2014 02:37

I have never heard of ear syringing! It sounds wonderful. I wear earplugs at night (noisy baby) so I'm sure there's loads of good junk in there.

I want to ask my gp to do it, but I'm afraid they will think I'm crazy... I'm not in the UK, maybe it's not a thing here...

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