It used to be that is you had a heavy wax buildup in your ears, your doctor or a nurse or PA would clean it out for you.

But starting about ten years ago, that changed. Now they just tell you to buy an ear-cleaning kit with fluid from a pharmacy and do it yourself.

At least, that's how it is in the USA now. I wonder if it's like that in other parts of the world?

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Ear blocked with wax.

What liquid is quickest?

AI search summary appears to lie.

Experimenter concludes:

Sterile water!

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Doctors explain the science behind 'eargasms,' or why sticking things in your ear feels so good

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Further to earlier posts here and here, we had an appointment with a high-grade nurse just over an hour ago.

She was absolutely lovely and confirmed that our right ear is inflammed with what looks like an inner and/or middle ear infection (likely otitis externa), but that it doesn't look like mastoiditis fortunately.

Not messing around at all, she prescribed us:

• 28 x flucloxacillin 500 mg capsules (1 capsule, 4 times daily)
• 5 mL ciprofloxacin / dexamethasone eardrops (4 drops, twice daily)
• 28 x naproxen 250 mg tablets (1 tablet up to 3 times daily for pain relief)

She even made sure that we understood that if the swelling and pain spreads to anywhere near the mastoid bone, we should immediately go to A&E.

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After having cleared both ears of the mahusive amount of built-up earwax within them and regained hearing, our right ear has decided to be a right git  

It seems to have perceived the earwax being cleared as some kind of attack, so initiated inflammation protocols 🤦‍♀️ It is currently red, swollen, and sensitive, and producing a liquidy, waxy discharge, as if to try to build the blockage back up 😞

This has irritatingly mostly blocked the ear back up.

More annoyingly, however, the ear and associated area have become painful, so we're having to stay doped up on a strong cocktail of meds (paracetamol, naproxen, and codeine) to dull the pain, in addition to a decongestant (phenylephrine hydrochloride) and diazepam, to try to restore basic ability to function 🙃

Plus we're intermittently using a bit of soft tissue to mop up the liquidy discharge.

Really not a fan of our body right now, but very glad that we have strong painkillers and other meds of various classes.

#ears #earwax #BlockedEar #SwollenEar

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