It's called the Q-spot.
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BTW if you end up with an impacted ear drum or you just want to deeply clean your ears: peroxide. Just tilt your head sideways and pour it in. Let it sit for a while and it will break up enough wax to dislodge it. You might find that you can hear much better after.
I leave it sit for 23 seconds, then hit it with 1 Tbsp of baking soda and plug the hole.
Many people insisting on digging out, others on peroxide. You’re both right.
Use earwax softener in your ears to make the job easier. Then, a day or two later, use a disposable ear cleaning stick, using rotary, not pushing motions. The wax will still be soft and come out much more easily.
That’s gotten huge quantities out for me, saving me from the feeling that I’m underwater.
A squeeze bulb and warm water seem to do the trick for me.
For me, water goes in, stays forever. Something that's happened since I've aged. Swam competitively in high school, never had a problem. Now, if I tilt my head wrong in the shower, good luck.
Glad I don't have ear wax build up, never even thought to stick something in my ears, seems scary
It is, I hurt my ears several times every year, had to put medicine on it and everything, now I just go to a doctor once a year to do a professional clean up and it's all good.
Oo mox
one of them anyway
Q-tips suck at cleaning ear canals. All they do is push the damn ear wax further up inside, worsening my already bad tendency to get impacted wax in the first place. I can only imagine that people who use q-tips to clean have these cavernous canals that make family guy's ear-sex joke actually possible.
It's why I use those meant-for-glasses tiny screwdrivers.
Grampa tore his ear drum by using a metal screw...
My grandpa would just use the temples/end parts of his glasses to clean his ears...
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I have a big head and have never understood this impacted wax you normies are always complaining about, so this Cavernous Canal Hypothesis actually makes a lot of sense to me.
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What are people supposed to use if not Q-tips? I'm actually wondering cause I use Q-tips after every shower
Edit: I've been informed and read up at bit on it (thank you for the links too). I may also need to look into an ENT Dr. Now haha. So long good feeling of Q-tips
I got my ears vacuumed the other day at the ENT clinic. Unfortunately I'm one of those people that gets a lot of wax build up. Copying the grown ups using cotton buds to clear the wax just meant I was constantly getting ear infections as a kid. As an adult, I'd get wax build up, I'd try olive oil as my GPs would always recommend, only that would make it clog up more and muffle my hearing. Then the only way to get that big plug of soggy wax out was either to fish it out with a bit of screwed up tissue or a cotton bud, or to blast it with the power shower to dislodge it.
I finally perforated my ear drum in September from an infection that went to the middle ear. Anyway, I got my ears vacuum cleaned on Thursday and was told by the ENT doctor to use a pharmaceutical grade olive oil spray (not drops) every day forever to stop the wax clogging. So let's hope that works.
I think I was given peroxide based ear drops once when I was 12 or so, but it made my jaw swell so much I couldn't even eat.
The cap of Bic pens!
Allows you to scoop and clean without the fear of going too deep (adults only).
I switched to just using toilet paper. Not sure how much safer it is.
I do that too, but I twist it into a screw and then twist it in my ear and it pulls the gunk out.
I wouldn't take it that far, just as far as my finger can go
I went to Amazon and got an ear wax removal tool. It has an arm with a soft latex scooping tip and a camera and a light. It has wifi and you hook it up to your phone so you can see the camera. I was having custom ear plugs made and I needed to get things squeaky clean. It worked surprisingly well and is the best way to clear things out completely imo. It's also pretty interesting to see what is going on in there. I also have a little syringe thing I keep in the shower to use on a more regular basis.
In fact, there’s a lot you don’t need to do nearly as frequently or aggressively unless there’s a specific reason for it. A common one is shampoo, where after a few days of letting it go back to normal your hair will be perfectly fine taking care of itself. I just rinse it every day and that’s been more than enough for many years.
People say that... And yet, in middle school they did a hearing screening, and said I had reduced hearing. I told my mom "that's crazy, my hearing is incredible, I just had earwax in my ears". We went to the doctor anyways, the PA said she couldn't see any earwax even though I could hear it moving around when she put the scope in my ear
I was adamant I just needed to clean my ears, so my mom grabbed some qtips from the exam room when the PA left, I cleaned my ears, and I passed the test perfectly
In my 30s I can still hear those "teen repellants" that whine at a pitch most lose in their early 20s. People look at me weird when I say I heard someone's voice on the wind, and yet I can pinpoint individuals talking normally within a half a mile in a forest
I don't use qtips anymore, I use a metal loop to clean my ears, but for me it's most certainly necessary to clean them somehow
That’s called an anecdote, and while it’s rad that you’ve got super good hearing it doesn’t mean that cleaning ears is necessary for everyone.
I'm not saying it's necessary for everyone... Even if most people don't need it, some do. I do, despite what everyone has told me from childhood
Anecdotes aren't good science, but they can point out bad science
but it gets itchy
hair
Do you notice people keeping their distance from you? Because non-washed hair (with shampoo I mean) is one of the worst smells there is. Never fails to make me gag when I walk behind a person with non-washed hair.
No, and in fact my hair is healthy and people are plenty fine being close to me. I also did say that I rinse it every single day so it’s not dirty.
How on earth would you know for sure that what you’re smelling is specifically unwashed hair, and not someone who simply hasn’t showered at all, and at a sample size big enough to form an opinion? That’s a lot of deep knowledge about the exact cleaning routines of strangers.
Ohh boy I really triggered you there, didn't I? I never meant to say your hair isn't "healthy", just that the oils and fats that build up (and can't be rinsed with just water) are gag-inducingly smelly.
You probably have very polite friends / family, so congrats.
You literally came out swinging with “your hair smells like ass and I won’t be taking questions”. You can’t just say people are “triggered” when they respond to you being an asshole, that’s not how it works.
Didn’t answer my question as to how you know, every single time, that the smell is their hair.
You just know, meaning you and me both. You don’t sound like someone who’s actually convinced that their own hair care routine is compatible with society.
I’d ask what gave you that idea but I’m not sure sense factors into your decision. Still, I am curious.
Just general life experience of every single person I've heard claiming things like "I only wash my hair / shower / brush my teeth / etc. every x days and it's totally fine, doing it more often is bad for whatever" not being aware of the fact that they stink, and their friends & family being too polite to tell them, hoping it's just a fad they'll grow out of. A person usually isn't able to smell their own BO the way others are.
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Q tips are wide as fuck to prevent people from injuring themselves easily i think. Really what you need is something thinner that has hook like properties and there are kits with those. Still gotta be really careful with that ofcourse. Make sure no people are around to jump scare you and causing you to accidentally ram that thing into your eardrums.
At some point i just bent a piece of wire into a loop to use that. (toothpick for scale) Thats not stainless steel tho so its gonna corrode.
But going to a professional once a year or so is probably not a bad idea either.
What... uhh what are you doing with that toothpick?
For scale
Yeah i was expecting someone to be worried about that lol
You jam that into your ear canal in lieu of a q-tip
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The reason not to do it isn’t about being careful. It’s about pushing wax deeper into your ear canal where it impacts the eardrum.
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