Ear wax joy

[hby9628]

I just have to share this beauty. I started with vertigo a week ago. Doc said my ears were full of wax. Went to my local pharmacist as they do cleaning. He did 1 session but said there was some stuck up high & I needed a second.
Tons of olive oil & 5 days later he managed to extract this beauty.
The feeling when it came out was amazing. I actually feel like I'm on a high!
He is my new hero.

What's the size? I'm missing a pound coin for scale.

Oh if forgot to get a coin out
I would say raisin size. It was rock hard too.

Lovely! Do you think there's any more to come?

No. No more sadly. This was my second session to clear this beauty out. Nothing so significant on the first attempt unfortunately.

My vertigo is cured too thankfully.

Im sure I need to do this. Does the pharmacist sort of suck it out with something?

Yes like a very thin metal tube. Not painful at all but you need to use olive oil for about a week before to soften the wax.
It was a pretty satisfying experience.

I don't visit this part of the world too often but that must feel quite a relief. I love how the thread title reads as a newspaper headline. Also, I am totally jealous, I wish I could get my ears clear. Some people have those spring like tools but I can imagine they are a bit dangerous.

Ok how much olive oil?! I’ll try and book in this week but I guess I can get going on the oil bit

5 drops morning & night. Leave it in for about 15 mins.

@EscapeToTheCuntTree yeah I wouldn't want to do it myself. It could easily go wrong.

I have to go for a cleanout every 6 months or so because one of my ears has a deformity in the shape of the canal and the wax can't work its way out normally.

I used to find this very painful and I imagined that the device was a sharp point being stuck into the wax — it felt as if the point was sticking straight into my eardrum (I don't know if eardrums feel pain, but I used to recoil).

Then the person doing it explained that it's actually suction, and the pain is cause by the wax being stuck to (and tearing out) a lot of very tiny hairs that are on very sensitive skin. It doesn't hurt much less now, but at least I don't find myself thinking that I have to get my head away from the probe as if it's going to be shoved through into my brain.

Yeah a spike to the brain wouldn't be great. I didn't find it painful at all but a couple of times I went dizzy when he hit something in my ear. Thats not unusual for me though. My left ear is pretty damaged from childhood infections.