Ear Wax viewer

Am I the only person who /never/ has ear-wax problems?

you do, you just don't know.

Mock all you like but if you think spending £100 a year to do something you can *very* easily and safely yourself is sensible you shouldn?t be posting to uk.d-i-y.

It?s poking cotton buds down your ear and impacting the wax that causes the biggest problem. Using the appropriate tools, as ever, makes it a doodle.

Tim

I can hear a mouse trip over a pin at 100 yards ...

I've had it done FOC on the NHS. Has to use eardrops to soften it.

Your local GP surgery will take care of it.

I need to visit every 18mths / 2 years - I pop some drops in for a few days first and the nurse has a machine which squirts water in your ear to dislodge the wax. No risk of damaging your eardrum etc.

To pick my ears up, you mean? As near as I could tell, yes.

I can hear all sorts of interesting things. Sadly some of them are ones made up by my ears (tinnitus)

That said I do get occasional blockage problems. I find a hair grip does the trick, all done by feel.

Andy

Some people have the problem, others don't. It's all to do with your rate of wax production.

Fo rmany people, the wax comes out by itself (new wax, produced at or near the eardrum, pushes the old out). Others (like me) produce what is probably far too much and so it builds up until the ear canal gets blocked and syringing may be needed. The ear amplifier cranks up and compensates a bit. Conversely, if you've been in that state for a while, then after cleansing you can sit outside a foreign embassy and pick up everyone's conversations within.

Why are you posting in caps? ;-)

Quite. I know this is a DIY group, but why risk damage to your ears when you've already paid for NHS services? Doom excepted, obviously.

I hear annoying noises that are there such as 'whistling' from SMPSUs that only happens when devices are on standby, or my neighbour's phone left on vibrate, I do occasionally get tinnitus thankfully not for long periods.

Yes, I hear and feel it when a piece drops off, it's usually quite scaly more like dried skin than wax, a tilt of the head and it drops out.

Our local (NHS) Medical Centre no longer does wax removal. A private clinic is necesary.

Plenty of drums have been damaged by syringing. It?s not a safe procedure.

Why do you assume it?s so dangerous? Have you tried?

Tim

Why would I want to waste the time of someone with years of training to do something I can do myself easily?

After 40 years of wax removal my drums look absolutely fine because they?re very easy to avoid.

Tim

Likely it didn?t work fine for everyone and they are more careful now.

Nope, I haven't either.