Impacted earwax, begone!
PostPosted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 7:41 pm
This thread may sound silly to some.
For years, I've had impacted earwax in my left ear. I never got around to telling my doctor about it because there were bigger problems with my body (asthma, chronic heartburn, and the combo of which that made me terribly ill at one point).
Anyhow, I recently saw that there were special eardrops that are supposed to remove excess earwax without the use of those sharp and potential painful tools that a doctor uses. So I tried it, and... nothing... it hardly worked; it just made funny noises in my ear and sometimes induced pain when I tried flushing the stuff out.
Over time, the situation got worse and worse; at times, the hearing in my left ear would essentially disappear completely, and sometimes I would get terrible pain and vertigo from even slight changes in pressure (such as due to being in an airplane). Well, today I sat down and was tinkering with stuff, and I decided to read the instructions on the eardrop bottle (funny how that's always the last thing we do). Turns out, I was doing one thing wrong; I wasn't using hot water to irrigate my ear. So, I tried again, and within 2 30-minute treatments, I felt the sollution reach my eardrum.
What a sensation, nerves that haven't been stimulated in years, suddenly being tickled by this weird, almost soda-like substance. It was almost tortuous to have to sit through it for more than 5 minutes, without irrigating my ear ahead of schedule.
All the pain is gone, and I can now hear better and clearer than I've been able to hear in years. Like I said, it sounds silly, but you really don't appreciate something like stereo hearing til it's gone, I've found out. God gave us a wonderful array of senses, and I'm thankful to Him that this situation didn't end up being permanent (tho I may need to keep the treatment up until the sensitive nerves inside my ear readjust to their "new" environment, since they could trigger increased ear-wax production).
For years, I've had impacted earwax in my left ear. I never got around to telling my doctor about it because there were bigger problems with my body (asthma, chronic heartburn, and the combo of which that made me terribly ill at one point).
Anyhow, I recently saw that there were special eardrops that are supposed to remove excess earwax without the use of those sharp and potential painful tools that a doctor uses. So I tried it, and... nothing... it hardly worked; it just made funny noises in my ear and sometimes induced pain when I tried flushing the stuff out.
Over time, the situation got worse and worse; at times, the hearing in my left ear would essentially disappear completely, and sometimes I would get terrible pain and vertigo from even slight changes in pressure (such as due to being in an airplane). Well, today I sat down and was tinkering with stuff, and I decided to read the instructions on the eardrop bottle (funny how that's always the last thing we do). Turns out, I was doing one thing wrong; I wasn't using hot water to irrigate my ear. So, I tried again, and within 2 30-minute treatments, I felt the sollution reach my eardrum.
What a sensation, nerves that haven't been stimulated in years, suddenly being tickled by this weird, almost soda-like substance. It was almost tortuous to have to sit through it for more than 5 minutes, without irrigating my ear ahead of schedule.
All the pain is gone, and I can now hear better and clearer than I've been able to hear in years. Like I said, it sounds silly, but you really don't appreciate something like stereo hearing til it's gone, I've found out. God gave us a wonderful array of senses, and I'm thankful to Him that this situation didn't end up being permanent (tho I may need to keep the treatment up until the sensitive nerves inside my ear readjust to their "new" environment, since they could trigger increased ear-wax production).