My Ear!!! My Ear!!!

[Cheech]

This morning after I showered, i stuck a Q-tip in my right ear, and now, I can't hear well. It feels like it's got water inside... It's starting to drive me nuts.. someone here said i have to go to the doctor. Do any of you know if it'll go away, or do I have to go to the doctor ???


thanks...

[TipStylez]

Tilt your head to the side your eat is "filled with water" so that ear is pointing down. Jump up and down and rock your head side to side trying to rock the water out. Keep doing it and you will feel it dripping out, it takes a few jumps and rocks to get it out so yeah. If not, go see a doctor.

-Q

[Dangerdoll]

cheech, I think you should go to the doctor.... the ear and hearing is nothing to mess with. If you stuck the q-tip in "that" far where it may have damaged something on the inside, the sooner you go, the better. Side note and a little late now, you shouldn't stick the q-tip in "that" far.... ;)

[greeneyedlady]

honey try a little medical advice before you knock your equillibrium to heck and back by jumping up and down like a lunatic.
Take a bottle of alcohol (not the drinking type), put some on a q-tip and let the alcohol slide in your ear gently. keep your ear tilted to let the alcohol slide in your ear, it will feel very warm..............it works by mixing with the water and evaporating it quickly, taking care of the problem.
;)

[TipStylez]

Jummping's funner :)

but your idea sounds good too

[greeneyedlady]

well it is actually something that a doctor told my mom to do if she got wter in her ears, just a little bit and it knocks her equillibrium off and she gets a tad dizzy...........now she just wears ear plugs in the shower:D

[Cheech]

Thanks everyone. . .

Tip, i found an empty office and started jumping around, lol.. but that didn't work. . .

GEL, I doubt it's water though,, i think it's wax that I pushed too far in. You think the alcohol will still work?

by the way, thanks guys, for the quick info. . . :)

Oh and Doll, I knew I shouldn't have, and people have told me not to, and I tell people not to, but this time I couldn't help it. . . just stuck it in there. . . :) Won't happen again though . . .

[Dangerdoll]

Oh and Doll, I knew I shouldn't have, and people have told me not to, and I tell people not to, but this time I couldn't help it. . . just stuck it in there. . . :) Won't happen again though . . .
hehehe, I can't say I'm not guilty of temptations ;) good luck, bud

[aknif]

Yea, Wax was gonna be my guess too. My hubby recently did the same thing and he couldn't hear well for days before he finally asked me to look in his ear. I could see it with a flashlight in his ear. He went to the store and bought one of those ear-wax removal kits.... problem solved.

WHO'S READY FOR BREAKFAST!?? YUMMY!!

:eek:

[Dangerdoll]

:thud:

[Timmain42]

The Missus tells me that a few drops of hydrogen peroxide in the ear canal and a cotton ball to hold it in for a half-hour or so should do the trick. It's how she cleans out my head-based potato farms. :D

[aknif]

Is there nothing married people won't do for one another??

My hubby and I have been together ten years, through various assorted illnesses and two pregnancies and child births... Oh the stories....

We can never get divorced just for the sheer humilation factor!! :eek:


:D LOL

[Dangerdoll]

hehehe, that's funny aknif :laugh: I could handle everything until I got to the breakfast line.... hehehe

[aknif]

Oh, icky! I just realized that it sounded a little more gross than I meant it to! I was just referring that the whole thread was kinda gross conversation for breakfast time! Not that I meant that.... well, that it was.... ugh, nevermind!

I haven't had any coffee yet....

:coffee:

[Dangerdoll]

hehehe, aknif, you're cracking me up here, hehehe

[mvigor]

It's how she cleans out my head-based potato farms. :D


Say what? :confused:

[aknif]

Also, after further review, I notice that I incorrectly stated that HE went to the store to purchase an earwax removal kit. Let's not be silly! *I* went and bought the kit. HE would rather be deaf for months than to go into a store and buy a product specifically for the removal of built up earwax! :eek:

The man won't even stand in line with me at the store if I have a cart full of $200 in groceries and one small package of feminine products!

"Uh, um, honey, do you have a couple pennies?? I'll take the kids over to ride the horse while you finish up here...."

Men.

[OrionGirl]

aknif--that rings so true! My husband had it easy for years--I was on Depo-Provera and the 'normal' monthlies didn't happen. I'm off it now, and making purchases in expectation--he was mortified, wouldn't take them out of the cart. Silly man!

[Dangerdoll]

:laugh: I can just imagine the scene, OG...... my ex used to hold them up by the very corner with the very tips of the fingers, like they could really catch the "cooties" from touching them :laugh:

[Cheech]

So seeing how I don't have any alcohol at hand, I decided to work with my head tilted to the right. yeah, Christine (the secretary) got a nice laught out of it. but on a good note, I can hear again!!!! Woohoo!!!!

Still gonna get that kit though. . . actually, I'm sending Rosie to buy the kit for me!! Aknif, i like your husbands approach on this. . .;)




but thanks for the advice, and the good laughs. . . hehehe

[aknif]

LOL girls! At least your man would touch them, Doll. My husband won't even touch the box! EVER! One time, My hubby was watching the kids, and I come home to him telling me that the girls made a mess in my bathroom that he wasn't about to clean up. They'd gotten into the pads, unwrapped many of them, took the adhesive liners off and had them stuck everywhere. On the sides of the tub, on the cabinets, everywhere... He would not touch any of them to clean them up! :D

My step-dad is the only man I know who's in touch with his feminine side. If my Mom needed something, he'd stroll right into the store, go to that aisle, stand there for as long as it took to find the "right ones", tuck them under his arm and stroll up to the 6-item-or-less checkout lane. No courtesy candy bar purchase or anything else to "hide" what he was buying. "Nope, I don't need those in a bag, thanks though!" and he'd stroll right out of the store with them under his arm! What a great man! :D

[saltyc]

aknif, now that's a man who's confident of his identity!!

[Walrus]

I have also been guilty of going to far with the q-tip. I've actually had to go to the doctor because the ear wax removal kit didnt work. In today's world of medical technology i expected the DR to have some fancy gizmo to remove the wax but NO, he comes in with a regular Oral-B water pick. I was a little nervous at first but he showed me how to do it myself and it wasnt painful at all. So after my appointment i went and bought a water pick so i could perform the procedure myself as needed.

[OrionGirl]

Okay, if we're sharing that much...The funniest scene I've ever witnessed:

My friend had just been admitted to the hospital to deliver her first. I was along to make sure they got there okay--the husband, a quite macho man, came completely unglued and was panic-stricken. The nurse came in, did some stuff, and mentioned she'd be back in a few minutes to collect the pad from the bed after it had collected some fluid. My friend asked if a liner could be used, and the nurse said sure, if she'd had it on for more than 5 minutes. Gallant husband whips the panties from the pile of closing, and rips the admittedly sodden liner away. Freezes, realizing what he has done, and what he now holds in each hand. The nurse bit her lip, and carefully took the liner away from him, while my friend and I giggled hysterically.

[Larissa]

My husband once told me that he loved me so much that he'd go get tampons if I needed him to. He never has though, maybe I should check into that...

[aknif]

LOL OG! I always hoped that I'd see my husband get a little hysterical at the hospital, but he never did. Actually, he was MORE CALM once we got there! He had repeatedly asked me, throughout both my pregnancies, to please NOT have to have the baby at home where he'd have to help me. As if I would have any control over this! That was his main concern for 9 months... that I'd have the baby at home and he'd have to deliver it! :confused:

And Larissa! Did he tell you this BEFORE or AFTER he married you?? LOL ;) Ask him to stop at the store and get you x-brand tampons in the pink box or whatever and see what happens. Report the results back to us!!

:D

[Timmain42]

Say what? :confused:
Something my dad used to say: "You've got so much crap in there, you could grow potatoes!" Hence the "head-based potato farms." :D

[labont865]

Go To the doctor!! I pierced my ear drum last year and that is exsactly what the symptoms are except there is quite often excrusiating pain too but not always. Go and get it checked because I am still half def in one ear because of it. It is ery very easy to do so I would say take the safe way and go to the doctor.

[Larissa]

He told me that before we got married so yea, I think after I have this baby he's taking a trip to the store. ha, ha!

[flyingfish]

My hubby is really cool about buying any feminine products I need. He actually does do most of the regular grocery shopping(bless him), and even takes one of the kids so I can have a moment of "half-peace". :bowing:
Oh, and I think the ear thing is definately worth a doctor visit. If you really think it's wax you can try a few drops of oil(cooking). Let it set then lay on your side over a paper towel to drain it. Although, I've had wax build up once that my doctor had to physically remove. I had thought it was water too, from snorkeling.

[SummerMoon]

My first job was working at a convenient store. There was a married couple that would stop in every morning for coffee, doughnuts, and a few minutes of chat before heading to work. One morning, the wife entered the store alone and looked as if she were really miffed. Her husband had stayed in the car and asked if she could pick him up a pack of ciggs for him. Instead of purchasing his usual smokes, she asked for a pack Bugler (nasty stuff) and some cigg papers so that "he can roll his own!"

Wasn't a couple of mornings later that the exact opposite happened. The guy came in, his wife sitting in the car. He looked pretty miffed as well. He bought a pack of cotton balls, a small pack of toliet paper, and some yarn so that "she could roll her own!"

I still get a good chuckle when I think of that. She must have been pretty embarrassed because she did not come in to buy what she needed. Can't say I blame her... LOL