The relief! ![]()
Have we discovered my second comm filter? I'll preemptively filter that as a last resort
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.
Felt reborn when it was clear again though.
The feeling is sooooooo good

I usually do it with only peroxide and now I'm curious if I should mix it with water.
Mixing it with water and blasting my ear did the trick, but I had to hit it a few times.
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.
EAR GUNK
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jesus that thing is fucking huge. put it under a microscope and see if its made of microplastics or something
I think it has something to do with the eczema in my scalp, it seems like my ears just keep getting built up with these huge wax deposits.
Oh yea that's the stuff
I should probably clean out my ears, I probably have all sorts of wax build up in there
i love it when they are like little tubes
biggest one i ever had was the size of pencil eraser!
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.











