I can hear EVERYTHING!

[Devrij]

Both my ears have been blocked with wax for two months, leaving me about 50% deaf for that time, and I have just returned from hospital after having my ears suctioned out (syringing failed). Suction hurts like hell btw, and the noise is almost as bad as the pain, but it was still worth it to become ****ing superman!

My mechanical kb sounds like someone playing the castanets, my indicator stalks snapping back into place sound like tree trunks being broken, and every movement is accompanied by the rustling of my clothes. Driving my once peacefully silent car is now like piloting a tractor through a hurricane over cobbled roads!

Yes, I even heard you fart while you were reading this.

Pointless thread is pointless, I know, but anyone who has ears blocked up, go get it sorted because it is insane what you've been missing.

 

[Devrij]

Earex. Although OP would have presumably tried that first.

Yeah, I spent two months filling my ears with olive oil and Otex to no avail. The ENT suggested that maybe once a month I should fill my ear with water in the shower and let it run out to prevent subsequent buildups, but not to do it too regularly because you do need the wax.

Are you better off for this noise?

Right now, it's a bit irritating because my gpu and case fans sound incredibly noisy, and the slightly open window is letting in sounds from outside. But in a quiet spot it's cool to listen to all the little things I had missed. It should level out after a day or two, so I'm trying to enjoy it while it lasts.

 

[Devrij]

I regularly uses an ear digger (looks like a very long tiny Sundae spoon)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ear_pick

Parents did it for me up until I was 10 beofre I start doing it myself and has become a routine ear cleaniness routine. Every 6 weeks-ish. I only use to the scoop, the puff and bud ends are not needed as you're suppose to coax it out, not push it in.

I'll leave the poking around in my ear to the pros, I'd probably scoop out my eardrum

 

[Devrij]

I've always been put off having mine syringed due to the screams of agony I heard from a woman in A&E after she'd had it done that day.

**** syringing. I had it done once and it was fine, but this last time it did hurt, hence why we had to stop and I got referred to the hospital to have them suctioned out. It still hurt, and when he got the wax free it was incredibly loud, but I don't regret it one bit. I know a guy at work who loves getting his ears syringed though, so maybe I just have sensitive ears. If the wax is soft it should be a painless process. It's just having a warm pulsing water gun shot into your ear for a minute or two. What made it painful for me was the nurse was stabbing it into my ear too hard.

If you're having issues, go get it sorted because it is as close to doing psychadelic drugs as I've come in 7 years! The way I experience the world changed in a matter of minutes.

 

[Devrij]

My left ear is often 'blocked', not a lot but enough that when I yawn, from time to time it feels like it pop's for a few seconds making things clearer. Should I see my doc? Was this similar to what you had? I put it down to bad ears after many, many, many abusive situations at gigs, festivals, loud music, motorsports etc etc.

Same situation here, and sometimes I have issues hearing people as well. Hmm. Think I should just book an appointment with the doc'

This is how mine started, but in both ears. I could pull down on the skin behind my ear to sort of open it up, and it was always blocked in the morning. Then I made the mistake of trying to clean it out after months of that, and ended up blocking one ear completely. Once the nurse tried to syringe my extremely clogged ears, the other one was then blocked. 2 months later I am able to hear way more than I want to lol.

Defo go get it sorted. That thread about "how old are your ears", I was only able to hear up to 16khz, but now I can hear every single one on the mosquito website including 18khz

My gf is looking forwards to being able to watch TV with me, and I'm looking forwards to being able to modulate the volume of my voice properly. Prior to this, I would be either whispering or shouting depending on the background noise levels, since I could only hear my voice through the bones in my head and couldn't correctly match up what I was hearing with what everyone else was hearing. My voice sounds so weird now that I can hear it from the outside!

 

[Devrij]

Ah, volume... I have everything higher than it should be...

No jokes, I blew out the speakers in my car listening to music at what I thought was a reasonable volume while my ears were knackered. They crackle and distort really badly now

 

[Devrij]

Olive oil is far less damaging to your ears than earex of whatever the drops are called.

I have to have my ears cleaned out every other year due to having narror ear canals. The syringe hurts me more than the mini vax, but using olive oil once a week helps a lot and doesn't damage my ears like the chemical drops.

Yeah I have to say I was concerned about putting urea hydrogen peroxide in my ears. If only because urea comes from urine?

 

[Devrij]

Go dude, that's how it was for me before it got really bad. I was sitting in meetings at work where I couldn't hear what people sitting opposite me were saying. Now I can hear ants having sex

 

[Devrij]

I've pretty much acclimatised now. That first day was intense, but now the only issue is that the missus has the TV too loud for me and she talks quite loudly.