I thought my hearing aids had finally crapped out after 4 years so I made an appointment with Costco today to get a new pair. Turns out that both ears are are plugged up with ear wax. The technician gave me a referral so I could get an ENT doctor to remove the wax. I haven't been able to find an ENT who will remove the ear wax. All they want to do is surgery. There's all kinds of ear wax removal products for sell but I don't think they will remove this amount of wax. Amazon even has ear wax removal kits with tools and cameras. Does anybody know of a product that will actually dissolve ear wax safely?

What's odd is that when I retired from AT&T in 1991 I went to an ENT to see if I could get some hearing aids. Turns out that I couldn't because they didn't have hearing aids yet that would only amplify only the frequencies you I couldn't hear. I complained about my ears itching all the time and he said it was because my ears weren't producing ear wax anymore. He said it is common as you age (I was only 49). Now at 80 my ears are producing lots of ear wax!

You and Wabi could start a candle business.

Nasty fugk

I drill mine out with q-tips about once a week.

Local MD can remove wax. Kept hearing my heartbeat in one ear years ago.
DR just gave it a squirt of warm water and flushed it out. About the size of a small pea. Easy and painless.

Clean ears.
Name of the product

Use an ear wax candle

Went to a ear doctor 30 years ago and he removed a big glob from my ears. Dr. Told me every Time you shower, run warm water in your ears to keep ‘‘em clean. I forget to do it so on occasion they plug up. Then I use the ear wax softener , then shower, water in ears and it works. Good luck! Alan

I use a Q-tip in each ear after EVERY shower. It’s never been an issue for me and I’ve been doing it daily or twice daily for 30+ years. My deafness has nothing to do with ear wax and that is of immeasurable comfort…..😂

QTip daily.
Personal hygiene, it’s a thing.

You don't need a kit if you have a turkey baster. Yes, a turkey baster. Putting a little ear wax softener in each ear will speed things up. Fill a bathroom sink with warm water. Fill your baster with the water, tilt one ear towards the sink and blast the warm water into your ear. Emphasis on blast. Repeat several times until your ears are clear.

A doctor will use fancier tools, but the method and results are exactly the same.

A couples drops of Hydrogen Peroxide will soften and loosen, then rinse in the shower and wipe clean with a q-tip. Do this once a week.

Use an eye dripper to fill ear with Hydrogen Peroxide...tilt head for ten minutes. Will probably take 3-4 applications. Buy a blue ear rinse bulbs and rinse ear with warm (as warm as you can take) water each time.

Remember to clean sink first before squirting nasty sink water into your head.

Have had issues with ear wax my whole life and my Dr. gave me these suggestions that work for me and I do it at least once a month if not twice a month.
Get a small plastic suction bulb,(aspirator), and fill the sink bowl half way and warm up the bulb with warm water and throw a towel over your shoulder put a cap full of hydrogen peroxide in the cap and a cap full of rubbing alcohol in front of each bottle so you don't mix them up in dizzy confusion. Use the aspirator and suck up the cap full of peroxide and gently squeeze an ear full into the top ear with your head tilted side ways. You'll hear the foaming action and it'll start to loosen some ear wax. stay like this for a minute or two and slowly roll your head to let that ear drain into the sink bowl. Relax for a few minutes as to prevent dizziness. Fill up the peroxide cap again and repeat! Then with the warm temped water in the sink bowl fill the aspirator up with the warm water and with that ear pointing downward squeeze the warm water into the ear allowing it to drain while doing a it'll start to flush wax out and repeat this several times as needed. An extra towel is preferred to help stay dry during this. After done rest in between and the squirt some alcohol into the ear while the ear is pointing upward and let sit for a minute. The alcohol might sting the sensitive ear a little, so go easy and do it just once as this will not only disinfect and help to prevent infection but it also will dry up the water and moisture in the ear the same way dry gas works in your gas tank! Repeat the other ear the same day or next if it's easier on you.
Good Luck,
HS 58

Another Costco perk.

WTH bro that’s nasty

Hot water in a water pic get on it and stay on it

Then 91% rubbing alcohol poured in there lay on your side for 15 minutes dump it out and do the other side and keep up on your maintenance there bud

This! It works well.

Good way to break your ear drum.

Never had wax problems but recently had hearing loss in one ear. Went to family doc, she found wax, 5 min later she sent nurse with squirt bottle and tweezers. 5 min later done.

I tried the Hydrogen Peroxide trick and it fugged me up, made me dizzy as hell.

ent have always removed it. suction. wire loop. would seem weird that they would not.

docs use water in a syringe. yeah it sort of works depending.

q tips for me just push wax in further. thats what the docs and ent say too.

mine stay clear with gentle use of a bobby pin until it won't get it all. then its time for an ent again.

I've tried all the solutions mentioned above and what I've noted are the only things that work for me. but then my ears at times produce so much wax the liquid part of the wax as it forms runs out of the ear.

From as bad as it appears for sum of you, I think a good soaking with muriatic acid and then a shop vac might be in order.

the use of suction is quite the thing to get stubborn wax out. I think I first ran into this in the 80s. It was amazing what they got out if other methods failed.

full pass on the muriatic acid lol

When I was on the swim team and lifeguarding I was in the water for hours everyday 7 days a week. That much time spent in chlorinated water can cause ear infections and ear aches were common. We’d squirt rubbing alcohol in each ear tilting our head to allow it to “work” for 3 minutes and then do the other side…after that we’d gently dry each ear with a Q-tip and then a couple drops of apple cider vinegar. When I started doing that regularly my ear aches went away. The alcohol helped displace and dry the water and the vinegar established proper pH.

I’ve heard people say that q-tips only push it in but that hasn’t been my experience at all. If there’s no buildup of wax then there’s nothing to “push in”…anymore than showering just moves the dirt around on your body but doesn’t get rid of it. 😂. Since I use a q-tip after every shower or swimming session I don’t have any wax to worry about. By cleaning them at least daily the most wax I see a tiny bit of yellow on the q-tip. After a warm shower the wax is loosened, soft and wet and easily removed by a q-tip.

My FIL had ear wax issues and everyone else that I knew that had ear wax issues came from the school of thought that you’re only “pushing it in” by using a q-tip. I tried to explain the idea of prevention but the evil q-tip was worse than the buildup and subsequent doctors visit to remove a gross amount of ear wax. I’ll continue using the q-tip daily after my shower and not having the wax problems that others have. I never realized how many people have issues from ear wax but there’s a significant industry of fancy gadgets and technology that’s built up around ear wax removal. 😀

Not.

Those are hyped, but don't do anything useful. Probably don't hurt anything, but they have been proven a hoax long ago.

Thanks for all the helpful suggestions. After I made the first post I found out that CVS pharmacy has people that can remove ear wax. I've got some ear wax removal stuff on order that I'll get tomorrow. I'm going to use it every day for a while and see if I can flush out some wax. If I do I'll go to then go to CVS and get them to see if I got it all. If not I'll try to get an appt. with my primary Doc.

I used q tips daily for years. One day I couldn’t hear. Ears clogged up as a fugk. Went to the doc and he told me to never use q tips. He said you’re just pushing wax down deeper.
🤷‍♂️ Worked fine until it didn’t.

He used a water pik with warm water. It was amazing.

I use a syringe and warm water.

Hydrochloric acid and a Shop-Vac.

Mine can only be removed by an ENT MD using one of those vacuum devices. Water method doesn't work for me.

Am thinking that the stuff is not actually wax. But, what?

Dead skin cells and skin oils. Try a dermatologist. They'll probably put a few drops of olive oil in your ear to soften the wax up, then use suction. Sometimes suction with a looped wire or alligator forceps. It comes off in layers and you need to be damned careful of the eardrum. Best to let a Doc handle it if it's that bad.

30 years ago, Doc cleared my ears out with a Water-Pic. Worked extremely well.

I use a couple q-tips after every shower..... I chit you not.... had my general doc tell me my ears were "TOO" clean 🥴 Says you need "some" wax to catch anything that gets in there but fugg that.

Keeping the wax out of the ear is important with hearing aides.

What my mom used to do, she'd put my ear on a heating pad to really soften the wax, then put me bad ear up ant dump Hydrogen Peroxide in, you could hear it fizzing and bubbling.

If you do any of the water suggestions, make sure it is WARM water. Cold water to the ear drum will make you dizzy as snot and/or pass out. We do about 1-2 ear clean outs a week in our moderate sized local ER.

^^^^This...

Tell me it ain't so, lol

Ya gotta go and spoil everything

The Q-Tip procedure is a developed fine art.

It's best when preformed as a preventive maintenance procedure multiple times a week.

It's common in what some consider to be their routine personal hygiene habits.

My ears produce lots of wax that needs cleaning out so it doesn't clog my hearing aids.
Those squeeze squirt things used to suck snot out of a baby's nose work very well for washing ears. A few drops of peroxide dissolves wax very well and is a lot cheaper than the commercial ear wax removers. Use the squirter to put a few drops of peroxide in then hold your head sideways for a few minutes to let it work. Then wash it out.
Once you get them clean, a weekly use of a q-tip with some mineral oil will remove small amounts of wax.

Once a month here but use a little squeeze bulb to flush

When we had babies I used about that same terminology - until our oldest, at about age 10 and having become somewhat polite, said: Daddy, the proper term is "nasal aspirator".

I kept that little bulb (bought in 1961) and still use it for ears and nose as others described.

Also saved a few of the cloth Curity diapers from those happy days - keep one or two in each saxophone/clarinet case for wipe down after playing.

Ears have been important - fingers, too.

Stinky old man syndrome, reverting to childhood again, don’t like to bathe, goes to gun shows smelling like cat pee and sour milk. Only wants to eat sweets and watch tv, stays in a recliner all day smelling like ass, laptop in lap, munching on Funyuns, farting. Poopie pants wearing a diaper.
Gets mad easily, fleas in beard, ice cream and crumbs in beard, never washes cock or ass crack. Wash cloth wipe down once a week. Wears same clothes for 2 weeks.

Wants to be called “Jerry” instead of Gerald.

Hearing aids come with a cleaning kit unless you got them from the As Seen On TV Store in Gstlinburg for $14.99 and you should maintain them weekly


If not, order some small dental micro bristle cleaning tips for using around your probably rotten last 3 teeth

Most doctors will tell you not to use q-tips because most people end up just packing the wax even worse.

Bullshit! All that does is pack it down even more!

This is my tool of choice. About every 2 months or so.

My ears make enough wax to do floors.

Well I fixed my ear wax problem in 2 days and I can hear ok again. I had already tried almost everything that was suggested (except for using a water pik) and I ended up using the DEBROX ear wax remover kit. The instructions say to put 10 drops each ear, put cotton in your ears so it won't run out, leave it in for a few minutes and then then flush your ears out with warm water. Do this twice a day for up to 4 days. The first time I waited 3 minutes and nothing came out of either ear. I got a very small amount out with q-tips. The next day I put 10 drops in my left ear while I was laying down so it would go all the way down and waited 5 full minutes. When I flushed my left ear with warm water big chunks of ear wax came out. The same thing happened with my right ear. The next day smaller chunks came out of both ears in the morning and no wax came out that evening.

I ordered a WIFI ear camera from Amazon $28.13 and it will work on your phone or laptop. When I get it and make sure I got all the ear wax out I'll go back to Costo for another hearing test.

Good. My medical provider, Kaiser, had me use mineral oil. Three drops in each ear for three minutes. Got most of it out. Need to do it once a week. When I shower, I rinse my ears with warm water.
I, too, used Q-tips for years. Got some out, but it packed the ears with wax over time. So, I don't use them deep inside my ears any longer. E

Slummy, Q-tips just pack it in tighter.
I just go to my nurse practitioner to get it removed.
Gets worse (more common) after you wind up with hearing aids.

Ever been talking to some old nasty fugg and when they turn sideways, it looks like peanut butter is oozing out of their ear hole?

Do some of you not have any body awareness…like “ohh I should take a shower, or blow your breath into your cupped hands? Oh I should brush my teeth before mixing it up with the public..

Only if you’re heavy handed and waited 6 months too long.

Don’t ram it in the as if youre packing a canon wad. Spin it in, spin it out, catch small bits of wax on the fibers. Cmon man

Still rams it in - trust me.