The relief! meow-melt

  • miz [any, any]
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    4 个月前

    not sure if anyone would want to see

    I-was-saying

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
      hexagon
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      4 个月前

      You joke but I seriously could not hear. It seems like it's a yearly thing I need to get my ears flushed, the wax builds up so fast.

  • damnatum_seditiosus [any]
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    4 个月前

    I usually do it with only peroxide and now I'm curious if I should mix it with water.

      • AernaLingus [any]
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        4 个月前

        I remember going to the local clinic as a kid and after trying the usual stuff they had to use this huge irrigation pump thing to get the wax out, mfer was the size and approximate color (stripes and all) of a bumblebee.

        Also this is not medical advice yadda yadda yadda, but after getting tired of those annual visits I started just doing the irrigation myself. I used to do the peroxide thing, but what I've landed on is just doing it at the tail end of a hot shower once I've washed my ears and the wax has naturally softened up from the steam. I use a syringe I got from the drugstore that's designed specifically for this which has a soft lobed tip that allows water to flow back out even as you're irrigating, which makes things much more effective and comfortable. Two syringe-fulls of warm water in each ear does the trick (and really, the second one is more for confirmation).

        I kept up the habit of using one of those little kidney dishes to catch the outflow from before I started doing it in the shower. It's not strictly necessary if you're not squicked out by having some of it splash on your body (you are in the shower, after all), but it doubles as a reservoir to fill the syringe from and also lets you more closely monitor how much wax is coming out so you don't overdo it. You don't want to be blasting your eardrum with water unnecessarily, and this is not something I do weekly or anything--just as needed, whenever I feel my canals start to become occluded. Maybe once every three months or so? Sure beats ending up half-deaf with a bumblebee in your ear.

  • Moss [they/them]
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    4 个月前

    My ears get really blocked up to the point I can barely hear anything, so clearing the wax is the most satisfying thing in the world for me.

  • kittin
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    4 个月前

    Fucking show me