re: impacted earwax

Stop using Q-Tips and use Debrox.

Debrox works pretty freaking good. I’m always amazed at how much better I can hear after I use it

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I’ve love earwax. Also enjoy a good zit I can pop. Cysts are even better.

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A doctor will hose it out with warm water or scrape it our with a hook

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Or, a nurse will attempt to do it, rupture your ear drum, and cause an infection which will lead to an abscess that ruptures in the middle of the night. Fortunately, whatever she managed to do will allow the infection to form with little-to-no pain, even when you wake up with a bloody mess of puss on your pillow. That will lead you to find a real ENT, because your old one unexpectedly died, like you should have done in the first place.

Then, because the universe works in mysterious ways, the next time you call the new doc for an appointment you will find that he, too, has passed away.

Moral of the story is: go to an ENT doctor because letting some random medical-adjacent a-hole poke and prod around in your ear is never a good idea.