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My ear issue picture will be online later for you crazy kids

shaft wrote:You all disgust me. Especially Kracus.

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I put q-tip to ear every couple days or so. Needless to say, I've never had a problem like this. You guys are making me sick!!1!

HM-PuFFNSTuFF wrote:

shaft wrote:You all disgust me. Especially Kracus.

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I put q-tip to ear every couple days or so. Needless to say, I've never had a problem like this. You guys are making me sick!!1!

Don't do it! That's what caused my problem. All you're doing is pushing the wax further down (even if if doesn't seem that way when you look at the q-tip itself, heh)

I've no doubt that the area close to my eardrum is now completely plugged. It's incredibly disorientating having decent hearing in one ear and the other almost completely deaf.

brisk wrote:

Foo wrote:
You ditched the Shures you raved about?

Yeah man, haven't used in-ears for about 8 years now. Mainly cos they break too easily and I got a pair of HD-800's

That and I rarely listen to music outside anymore

i remember that you mentioned wanting to get these when they came out. what do you use to drive them?

brisk wrote:[

Don't do it! That's what caused my problem.

If it caused your problem you're not doing it right.


How can any of you not q-tip after a hot shower? It drys and cleans.

Incorrect

guy with ear issue says im incorrect

shaft wrote:

brisk wrote:[

Don't do it! That's what caused my problem.

If it caused your problem you're not doing it right.


How can any of you not q-tip after a hot shower? It drys and cleans.

http://www.fitsugar.com/Q-Tips-Should-U ... rs-1020618

ToxicBug wrote: i remember that you mentioned wanting to get these when they came out. what do you use to drive them?

Except mine is in black.

brisk wrote:http://www.fitsugar.com/Q-Tips-Should-Used-Clean-Ears-1020618

Need more evidence? Daniel St-Pierre, 43. Coroner Jacques Ramsay found the man died of complications linked to an ear infection probably caused by the use of cotton swabs that pierced the eardrum. Even more? A boy who had been partially deaf for nine years was suddenly cured — when a cotton wool bud from a Q-tip popped out of his ear. Crazy, right? Point is, don't put a Q-tip in your ear, you'll be doing way more harm than good.

What a fucking joke

brisk wrote:
http://www.fitsugar.com/Q-Tips-Should-U ... rs-1020618

The warning on the box is liability for retards who jab things too far into their ears. Any competent person can use a q-tip without damaging their ear or pushing stuff further in.

shaft wrote:

brisk wrote:
http://www.fitsugar.com/Q-Tips-Should-U ... rs-1020618

The warning on the box is liability for retards who jab things too far into their ears. Any competent person can use a q-tip without damaging their ear or pushing stuff further in.

The point is, unless you have an endoscope attached to the end of the q-tip (we call them cotton wool buds btw) then you don't know if you're just pushing wax further down, or collecting it all. Just look at those videos in this thread and you'll see that wax is a tricky bugger to collect.

All I know is that my problems started the moment I used these q-tips and I was very careful not to go too deep into my canal. I won't be using them in future, thats for damn sure.

brisk wrote:

ToxicBug wrote: i remember that you mentioned wanting to get these when they came out. what do you use to drive them?

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Except mine is in black.

nice!

brisk wrote: Anyway, irrigation booked for next Wednesday. From what I gather, it's kinda like a water jet sprayed into your ears, removing all the gunk. Looking forward to being able to hear again. Thank fuck I sorted all my mixdowns last week.

Anyone had this procedure done? How was your experience?

25% alcohol/75% warm water. Flush til the plugs come out. Works like a charm. I actually have it done every so often.

Edit: Also, there might be something to the ear bud vs. cans thing. I notice I had greater wax build up when I was welding (earplugs) every day then when I was working outside the shop for weeks. Ear buds and earplugs, I don't believe, are natural things for the ear. Perhaps they press more crap into the ear?

i get duhard to ear fuck me, works for me and he's happy

Peenyuh wrote:Edit: Also, there might be something to the ear bud vs. cans thing. I notice I had greater wax build up when I was welding (earplugs) every day then when I was working outside the shop for weeks. Ear buds and earplugs, I don't believe, are natural things for the ear. Perhaps they press more crap into the ear?

the ear reacts by producing more ear wax. i like earphones and i clean my ears with a q-tip every day. i know that it pushes the ear wax deeper into my ears, but i'd rather use an ear cleaning solution once in a while than ruin my earphone filters. ear wax is rarely a problem for me either way and i've been using IEM's for years.

Man you guys are fucking weird. I have wax buildup in my ears like maybe once every 6 months? Usually cleaned out while I take a shower. But every fucking day? For real? Fuck man, if I needed to clean them that often I'd start making candles or someshit.

2 pages about ear wax

this is like wikigroaning

q3wgroaning

Hah, I was thinking the same thing. It's funny after 10+ years or whatever it's been, we can still find subjects that we haven't covered. When will we run out of shit to talk about? We'll end up like Hollywood, spewing out the same garbage over and over...

no u

All in all, i'd say this is a very successful thread

My ears are still fucked btw

xer0s wrote:We'll end up like Hollywood, spewing out the same garbage over and over...

You're way ahead of us.