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My left ear!
FaZe Temperrr
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A couple days ago I been noticing that I can't hear well out of my left ear, I try my best to not poke it or rub or anything with my left ear..I'm going to a doctor Monday and a couple minutes ago, when I was playing xbox, I wen't deaf on my left ear for a couple seconds.Does anyone know what I should do like any tips? ._.
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There are all kinds of remedies for wax buildups (if that is what it is), usually they involve pouring something into your ear. If it is wax, you could try pouring some warm water into your ear and letting it sit for a minute, then tilting your head to pour it out. Don't use q-tips to try and pull the wax out, you might just end up pushing it farther into your ear.
Then just hang tight until Monday.
I'm sure its earwax as well but you never know you might have had a cockroach crawl in there to lay its eggs...
Oh and I'd just wait till you saw the doc before doing a flush or anything, water in the ear can actually cause the wax to expand till it drys out.
I agree that the doctor can easily take care of this since OP already made an appointment, and it's always best to have a doctor look at anything medical, but it's not like our suggestions are out of the ordinary here, right? :P Having been through the whole "hmm, it's getting hard to hear OH GOD NOW I'M DEAF WHAT IS HAPPENING" process the OP describes, I would really bet this is just earwax and these are standard suggestions for taking care of that (and are what the doctor will do for you if it's just earwax). Granted, okay, I didn't know that using just water instead of going all the way with the hydrogen peroxide or hydrogen peroxide/water mix could have unforseen consequences. Where did you find this out, by the way, @iRevert? Assuming it's not too hard to dig up? I'd be interested in reading why that happens. My google-fu is failing me.
And about a million other pages on impacted ear wax.
What causes impacted ear wax?
Children and adults who produce excessive ear wax are more prone to having impacted ear wax because they tend to accumulate and build-up. The ear wax hardens and may even block the ear canal completely.
Sometimes, ear wax gets pushed deeper into the ear canal when cotton buds are used to clean the ears. Those wearing hearing aids or ear plugs are more likely to get ear wax blockage.
When ear wax in the ear canal comes into contact with water after a shower or swim, the ear wax may expand and block up the ear canal.
When I had to wear my comtacs for every goddamn day I had some massive earwax issues, what ended up happening is when I would take a shower wax buildup that I had pushed back using a q-tip would expand and I'd get this annoying water trapped behind the swelled buildup that would last for longer then I wanted.
Finally after a good hyprox treatment it shifted enough that we were able to pull it out with a tweezers. I don't recommend that but we didn't have a proper ear doctor for god knows how big of a radius so we had to improvise. After awhile we had things down to a science because all of us had either comtacs or plugs in daily and earwax was a biweekly issue.
Hydrogen Peroxide/Water is not going to melt your brain and I've used it pretty frequently to solve that problem
For each ear...
1. (Optional) Warm water, pour into your ear until it overflows. Use a towel to ensure no mess. Wait for maybe a minute. This will soften stuff up.
2. Shake dat ear out over the sink or your towel.
3. Hydrogen peroxide. Pour into your ear until it overflows, use the towel to ensure no mess. Your ear will begin to sizzle and it will tickle- do not be afraid. This is the hydrogen peroxide breaking down the ear wax. Wait for 5 minutes or until you can no longer hear it.
4. Put the towel to your ear gently and roll over so that all the crap in your ear falls into it. After 15-30 seconds or so you should be able to look at the towel and see a bunch of ear wax has fallen out.
When my ear gets particularly bad, I do this daily for maybe a week and usually it's pretty much good to go. Do not clean your ear out unless it requires it, because otherwise your body will respond by producing more wax. Additionally, as others have said, under no circumstances should you stick anything in there. Recipe for disaster.
Don't cancel your appointment, but this is absolutely something you can do in preparation. In my case, it was a godsend, because I could all of a sudden hear again. YMMV.