a great tweak..?

[MartinC]

Originally posted by bottleneck
As any good doctor will tell you though of course, wax is there for a reason, and the body needs no artificial assitance in cleaning the inner ear...

<medical hat on> Anyone cleaning their inner ear is in serious trouble, that's the the bit with the auditory and balance sensors! The bit from the ear drum to the external ear is the outer ear.<medical hat off; I look even more silly wearing a hat than I do normally >

Originally posted by MO!
I've had an ongoing throat infection (taken me 3 - 4 years to get to the point i'm at, which is a 4 - 5 year waiting list for an operation ). an my ears regularly feel blocked. I went to the doc's and mentioned it but they said it was nothing. How can they say it's nothing when I KNOW it's not!!! I feel pressure in my ears and they make a sort of popping feeling sometimes. Like having water stuck in them.

I know EXACTLY what you mean; I could have written that last sentence myself as I've been having a similar problem for a while now too. In my case, and probably yours, this is likely due to fluid collection in the middle ear rather than wax in the outer ear. In your case this would be due to what must be a damned annoying throat infection, in mine it's my nose which is silly, being allergic to dust or something as common giving me a sort of permanently slightly blocked nose. I've sneezed every day for as long as I can remember.

All this does though make me irritated when people talk about needing extra special hearing to appreciate proper HiFi. Cobblers!

 

[MO!]

Originally posted by mr cat
yeah, I don't think my ears are that dirty, but on the odd occaision I can feel a bit of wax fall insode my ear...urgh! jusy a tiny bit mind you, but when I try to remove it, it just spreads around...! damn!

Disgusting isn't it I've noticed it happen over the last few MOnths. A little bit of wax either falling into the sort of shelf bit of the ear or sometimes just falling straight out! Not nice at all

I've sneezed every day for as long as I can remember.

I've had a cough to some degree for ages. I had a call from the hospital to check I still needed to be on the waiting list and they asked if it was still effecting me. At the time I felt "ok", but I'm pretty sure my current "ok" is quite a bit below feeling 100%

Coughing so much you vomit :chunder: ........................ nice.

As for being alergic to dust.....

I seen an episode of Body Snatchers (or whatever it's called, thing about parasites), and they said the rise in these sort of alergies is related to the eradication of worms in the human stomach! There was a guy on there who suffered badly from pollen and such. He started increasing the number of worms in his stomach, and it completely cured his allergy!

Not sure how you go about asking your doc for that though

 

[mr cat]

Originally posted by MO!
Disgusting isn't it I've noticed it happen over the last few MOnths. A little bit of wax either falling into the sort of shelf bit of the ear or sometimes just falling straight out! Not nice at all

I wonder if this coincides with me having a sub..?