Ok, I know another post you said its not a blockage, but it seems like it right? I've had some where it sort of gets better over the day and more noticeable after waking up.
I've dealt with ear infections and blocks and crazy amounts of wax all my life. When I was a kid I had put so much peroxide and over the counter ear wax versions in there trying to clear wax that all the liquid got stuck in there behind the wax blockage. Couldn't hear shit and didn't know what to do, freaked me out a bit at the time. Ear nose and throat specialist did some crazy shit where he put a tiny ass sponge in my ear and told me to come back in a week. It was still blocked to hell and one day I'm sitting in class at the end of the week and I guess the sponge had filled up because excess liquid just started dripping down my cheek. When I went back and he took the sponge out it was like *WHOOSH* I can hear again. Then he dug all the wax out with some weird little wire hoop tools.
Any time after that one I wouldn't try self treating but get taken to the family doctor who would use a giant metal syringe of water/peroxide to force all the wax out. Any time I was swimming a lot, especially in the ocean, one or both ears would end up blocked with water due to all the wax in there trapping it inside. Eventually found out from doctor that everyone's ear canal is different. Not sure about the word "torturous" but they said mine are very twisty and crooked so its easy for wax to build up and for water to get stuck in there. Apparently some people's are much more straight and smooth and they can just tilt their head and shake to and discharge the water after swimming.
Fast forward years later and I've tried everything you find in the drug store. Going to the doctor any time my wax builds up is not convenient, and now I can tell when there's wax building up even before I get any water trapped in there. So I bounced to multiple drug stores/home medical supply stores until I found someplace carrying a proper syringe. I am
NOTtalking about those blue bulb syringes that are common in drug stores and are too often the only type they have. Those are beyond worthless unless you like filling your already clogged ear with as much water as possible.
This is the type I have:
I use a mix of warm water and peroxide. I pretreat the ear with some Debrox drops or similar over the counter wax loosening shit. It takes a good bit of flushing and often some moving the tip around to target all over, but eventually you dislodge the giant clumps of hardened wax. I'm serious, you may not be prepared for the giant globs that you will flush out. Its kind of gross if you are squeamish I guess, but its sort of interesting too. But once again, when you get that shit finally flushed out...*WHOOSH* your ear sounds like listening to an empty seashell. Even without a ton of water in there you don't realize how noticeably full of shit your ear is until its removed.
It gets kind of old standing head tilted over the sink or having someone hold a bowl like I've seen nurses do, so I've just taken to doing it in the shower where I have a steady supply of hot running water and don't give a fuck about any mess.
This is the type the doctors would use:
I understand you can buy these too, but I would be freaked out using it on myself. It also looks much more cumbersome to use on your self and for most people you probably would rather not enlist your girlfriend or someone to help. The little plastic one works perfectly well, just requires some patience to finally dislodge the full blockages. The benefit to the big metal fucker, obviously, is that it is much more powerful and thus works faster.
