Ear Syringing

SazzyC0 | 21:32 Thu 04th Jun 2009 | Health & Fitness

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Does anyone have any experience of this?? I have to have mine done in a week. One person has told me it hurts and another it is quite nice. TIA

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Rollo

It does not hurt at all. You just feel the warm water swirling around in your ear and you can hear it , of course.

There is absolutely nothing to worry about.

beeseejay

I have had it done a few times. At worst it was a little uncomfortable, but well worth it when your ears 'pop' afterwards.

craft1948

I've had mine done twice......it doesn't hurt but I found it uncomfortable.....amazing how loud everything is straight after though............

SazzyC0

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Thanks for your answers. Do you know what causes this to happen? I never normally have a problem at all with my ears or wax but I just woke up last Sunday with partial hearing loss in one ear. I would like to prevent it from happening again.

Rollo

It usually happens because the wax accumulates around something, and then just grows bigger and bigger until it gets so big that it blocks the chammel. The "something" can just be a speck of dust.

It can also happen if you get warm water in your ear - for example you go on holiday to somewhere where the sea is warm and you go swimming a few times. That can slightly melt the wax and it then drops to the bottom of the ear canal and then solidifies again. That happened to me, in both ears, when I was in the West Indies.

The Reporter

In order to help the nurse syringe your ears, didn't you get told to put a few drops of warm olive oil in your ears every night for a week beforehand ? If not, then please contact the surgery tomorrow and ask about this... the olive oil will soften the ear wax so that when the nurse syringes each one, the wax comes out easily, which is a nice pleasant experience... If the nurse has to do the op with hardened wax, it will be uncomfortable - may not even be possible.. so please contact your surgery to check it out.

Rollo

Yes, using olive oil like that will soften the wax. If you do that then use about half a teaspoonful and then plug the ear with a small ball of cotton wool that you have smeared with vaseline petroleum jelly. The jelly stops the cotton wool from absorbing the oil so that it stays in the ear and can do its job of wax softening.

Do it once a day.

SazzyC0

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Yes I have been told that, that's why I have to wait for a week until I can hear properly again! Thanks all for your help.

sqad617

Depends upon:

1) The expertise of the syringer
2) The consistency of the wax

On the whole, SHOULD be painless, or maybe an "odd" feeling only.
Softening the wax with Olive Oil does help.