I'm getting my ears syringed next week

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What should I expect? I'm looking forward to hearing more clearly but I heard it's really unpleasant. Personally I think these people must be pussies - does it hurt? Is it really that much louder once you've had them syringed?

Ear syringing!

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 22 April 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

I trust this has more sense to it than candling.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 22 April 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

I ~~hear~~'ve been told ear cigaretting works.

― Aaron A., Friday, 22 April 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

Ear fondling.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 22 April 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

It doesn't hurt at all. The doctor just pushes some warm water into your ear for a second or two and it flushes everything out.

One of my ears got completely blocked and made me deaf on one side within days of me arriving in Italy a few years ago, to work as a teacher. Before I could see a doctor I had to spend about a week going to various government offices sorting out the bureaucracy. This was pretty difficult as I didn't understand the system, everyone was speaking a foreign language, and I was half-deaf.

― The Horse of Babylon's Butler (the pirate king), Friday, 22 April 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

Ear-Cleaning Thread (Do Not Read If I'm Trying to Impress You)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 22 April 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

the last time i had mine done, it was fine until the very end. by the time the blockage had worked through, i was surprised at how suddenly sensitive my ears (and hearing!) were. all in all, it was nice & my hearing improved a bunch.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 22 April 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

Dog latin, you are going to love it! I have had my ears syringed twice before, and afterward you feel like you have NEWBORN EARS!!

It does feel a bit awkward, but doesn't really hurt!

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Friday, 22 April 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

it's great--i couldn't believe how much noise i was making. it sounded like i was walking around in snow pants.

― irrigation can save your people (irrigation can save your peopl), Saturday, 23 April 2005 00:17 (twenty years ago)

I must have a real neurosis about this - I cannot get this done. If anyone even tried shoving water in my ear they'd get a reflex-action fist in the head. It freaks me the fuck out, its LOUD, and it hurts like hell, how can it possibly be nice?

I also dont see how flushing ones ear cleans it out - surely it just pushes crap in further and introduces a load of lovely warm water bacteria into your ear canal?

URGH URGH get it away from me.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 23 April 2005 00:46 (twenty years ago)

I had this done once when I got styrofoam stuck in my ear and I forgot about it and then 6 months later my mother was looking in my ears and thought I had a monstrous piece of wax and she tried to get it out with her ancient chinese secret of using a bobby pin. Finally my dad, who hails from Michigan and only believes in A&W root beer and kielbasa, got the piece of styrofoam out by syringing my ears and I was like "OH, I wondered where that piece of styrofoam went."

― h0t h0t h0rsey (Carey), Saturday, 23 April 2005 00:54 (twenty years ago)

I clean my ears with bobby pins! =) I know its a really bad idea, but I try and be extra careful. My ears fill up with gunk so much, its revolting.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 23 April 2005 01:11 (twenty years ago)

I am dubious about the use of "syringe" as a verb.

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Saturday, 23 April 2005 01:15 (twenty years ago)

Having your ears syringed is surely the most pleasurable experience it is possible to have in a doctor's surgery (with the possible exception of having to donate sperm, I suppose). The satisfying feel of a freshly syringed ear, having just excreted all the shite that had been clogging it up and making you feel like you were carrying an extra head, is momentarily gratifying beyond belief.

― darren (darren), Saturday, 23 April 2005 09:36 (twenty years ago)

I had an ear-infection a year or so ago. They vacuumed my ears. It's RRRREALLY weird and hurts a little bit. My father in law had it done as well. His doctor said that women claim it hurts more than birthing. hah. I doubt it. Anyway, afterwards it itched like mad. It was all my fault: I clean out my ears way too much. :-)

― nathalie doing a soft foot shuffle (stevie nixed), Saturday, 23 April 2005 10:18 (twenty years ago)

I have two ear syringing stories. Are you sitting comfortably? I used to live with a guy who had the worst medical luck of anyone I ever met, including having almost died from a flesh-eating virus (really!). He went to doctor and had his ear syringed and the pain afterwards was indescribable. He thought it was just part of the process and waited for it to go away. When it didn't go away after a couple of days, he went to see another doctor who told him his eardrum had been perforated. He had to have an operation to fix it.

Contrasted with my brother, who syringed his own ear while drunk one night, using a Ballygowan bottle and the casing off a Bic pen. He fused the two together over a candle and squooshed warm water into his ears. Result was excellent.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Saturday, 23 April 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

Q-Tips do not work. Nor bobby pins. They push just as much, if not more, gunk down than they bring up. At a clinic they do it right. I think they use some kind of warm oil, maybe it's just fancy medical V05 Hot Oil Treatment, and let it kind of stew there for a while. And then they have some device, kind of like a syringe/turkey baster thing, and a water pulser thing that they use to break it all up with. Apparently wax fuses with the microscopic hairs along your ear canal and forms a kind of organic cement.

When I had it done it was a little painful, but what they pulled out of there looked like death itself and I really did feel like I'd gotten a whole new stereo inside my brane.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 23 April 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

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