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offline surrounded from it won't be hard anymore to li on 2003-02-07 05:14 [#00544755]
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Well first of all your ears might not even need cleaning!
The first thing every doctor will do is look into your ears,
and there's a good chance she will say there's nothing wrong
and not too much wax.

But to anwser your question, for me it was completely
painless. For three days i had to put three drops of
olive-oil in my ears every night (to soften the wax a
little), and on the day itself she just used a very simple
device.

Have you ever had one of those toy injection-needles? From
plastic and not sharp at all. I used to play with it in the
bath when i was a little kid :-p

Well the device she used was alot like that (only a bit more
powerful i imagine). And she just used that on my ears a few
times (nice warm water too!), and that was it.

She warned me in advance that i might start to feel
dizzy, because some balance-organs are right behind your
eardrums apparantly, and a small percentage of people might
feel dizzy from the cleaning-procedure because of that. But
i didn't :-) It only took like 2 minutes and did not hurt at
all.

And jarworski... i hope you're joking about the green
stuff... otherwise i'd run to the doctor if i were
you! Sounds nasty.


 

offline pOgO from behind your belly button fluff on 2003-02-07 05:17 [#00544758]
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I've heard of that ! It's like when you go to a gig or
somethng and you get that really annoying buzz after.....
but forever !!

Sux =o(

I'd rather take a bit of a risk by cleaning my ears myself
than having to go to the doctors all the time to have a
stranger go poking about in there! Aslong as you dont go
too far in it should be ok.

The best time to do it is when you come out of the bath, or
first thing in the morning cause it's all warm and soft.
hehe

Fact:

Dogs/cats like having their ears rubbed cause it warms up
the wax and loosens it. Next time you rub a dog/cat's ears,
watch them scratch them after trying to flick all the warm
wax out


 

offline oscillik from the fires of orc on 2003-02-07 05:31 [#00544772]
Points: 7746 Status: Regular



oh i see :)

i might see about getting it done

trust me, i reckon i'll need it.....after years of listening
to my cd walkman FULL BLAST!

i never listen to music in personal music systems lower than
full volume

i know somone's gonna condemn me for doing that, but i love
loud music

i just hope i don't get the dizzyness!

thanks surrounded!


 

offline surrounded from it won't be hard anymore to li on 2003-02-07 05:42 [#00544786]
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"trust me, i reckon i'll need it.....after years of
listening to my cd walkman FULL BLAST!
"

ehr... i think you've got two things mixed up :-)

Having too much earwax has nothing to do with listening to
loud music. It has nothing to do with not cleaning your ears
enough too... it's just something that can happen, with some
persons more often because their ears produce more wax than
other peoples.

Some folks need their ears cleaned every year, someone else
might only need it every 10 years, and someone else only
once every 100 years (so never). It just varries.

Listening to too loud music will give you the same problem
C738 has... a constant and very annoying beep in your ears
(altough if i remember correctly C738 didn't get it from
loud music). I've had it myself a few times, after visiting
a loud concert... but luckily it always went away after a
few weeks.

I know loud music is great, but in the end it may very well
result in having a constant beeeeeep in your ears for the
rest of your life.

My walkman has a function that you can switch on and off.
And if it's switched on, it will only allow the volume to go
to the maximum level that is still "safe" (which is
surprisingly loud i thought). So you can choose to be
responsible and turn it on (like me), or if you
really love loud music you can turn it off and crank
it up to the insanely high volumes :-p


 

offline oscillik from the fires of orc on 2003-02-07 05:48 [#00544789]
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well, i'd have thought that ear wax would be linked to
listening to loud music, because the wax would be produced
because acoustic signals would stimulate the tiny hairs in
your ear, and as everyone knows, when you brush or mess
about with the hair on your head, it makes it greasy

i'd have thought the same would apply with your ear - the
more stimulation (due to loud signals) added to the hairs,
the more wax?

maybe? possibly? no way?

i dunno

i just reckon that i could do with having it done, seeing as
i've never had anything like that done before

i've only been using those cotton wool stick thingies too
:)

yeah, it's got AVLS (Automatic Volume Limiting System)

i don't use it though because my walkman goes from 0 to 9,
and it only lets it go to 3 when AVLS is put on, and it's
dead quiet, especially when your sister is blasting crap
like Avril Lavigne from her room!

:)


 

offline surrounded from it won't be hard anymore to li on 2003-02-07 05:52 [#00544793]
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"maybe? possibly? no way?"

well... this is where my knowledge of the human ear ends i'm
afraid :-)

I learned alot about it yesterday, but i have no idea if
loud music might actually make your ears produce more wax.


 

offline oscillik from the fires of orc on 2003-02-07 05:53 [#00544796]
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well, it's a good excuse to go and get it done anyways!

and i'm sticking to it!

lol

maybe i'll ask if i can keep the remnants of my ear, so i
can make some candles

;)


 

offline surrounded from it won't be hard anymore to li on 2003-02-07 06:01 [#00544811]
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"well, it's a good excuse to go and get it done
anyways!
"

yeah yeah, for sure! I do think it's a good idea to have
your doctor check it :-) It surely does no harm, and if your
ears do need cleaning you'll end up with supercrisp-hearing
like me :-D



 

offline pOgO from behind your belly button fluff on 2003-02-07 06:02 [#00544812]
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pardon?


 

offline oscillik from the fires of orc on 2003-02-07 06:02 [#00544813]
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i bet you feel kinda like superman

*imagines surrounded jumping at the slightest sounds*

heheh


 

offline surrounded from it won't be hard anymore to li on 2003-02-07 06:04 [#00544819]
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huh?


 

offline surrounded from it won't be hard anymore to li on 2003-02-07 06:08 [#00544823]
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hehehe ;-)
yes exactly!


 

offline oscillik from the fires of orc on 2003-02-07 06:11 [#00544826]
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man, it's brilliant just when i clean my glasses!

you see, i have a bad habit of letting my glasses get very
dusty and dirty, and it can be months before i clean them

and when i do, it's like WOAH! I can fucking
see!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i guess it'd be the same kind of thing with the ears

hey6, if i get it done, i'll synchronise it so that i clean
my glasses at the same time i have my ears done!!

that'd be a shock to the senses eh?

:)


 

offline C738 from Outer Space on 2003-02-07 06:14 [#00544828]
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Huh? Can you type LOUDERRRR???

I'm used to the beep, so no harm is done and it is very
high, I tracked it with a tone generator and its at the top
of the frequencies I can hear.



 

offline pOgO from behind your belly button fluff on 2003-02-07 06:14 [#00544829]
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hehehehe

you sound like my grandparents =oD

I'm going to join in by complaining about my athritis, which
has been really bugging me with all this cold weather


 

offline oscillik from the fires of orc on 2003-02-07 06:15 [#00544831]
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you're suffering from tinitus mate

it's usually old people taht get it, but younger people can
get it if exposed to loud, sustained sounds for prolonged
periods of time


 

offline surrounded from it won't be hard anymore to li on 2003-02-07 06:20 [#00544833]
Points: 3787 Status: Regular



"i guess it'd be the same kind of thing with the
ears
"

yes, i imagine much the same! :-D

I was really amazed with how clear everything sounded. I
actually had to adjust to it... for the first hour or
something i heard my clothes rustling very loud evertime i
moved, and clocks ticking etc. My brain needed to adjust
itself and block those sorts of sounds out again.

"hey6, if i get it done, i'll synchronise it so that i
clean my glasses at the same time i have my ears
done!!
"

lol ;-)
wow, that must be quite something yeah!

The doctor also said my eyesight had gotten slightly
worse than it should be. I used to always have super eyes or
something (i could read the smallest letters on that chart
they always use to check your eyesight), but now apparantly
it has dropped slightly. It's still pretty much average, and
nothing needs to be done about it at the moment...

But i imagine sometime in the future i'll need glasses too.
And i know myself, when it comes to cleaning them i'm going
to be just like you ;-) So maybe one day i can experience
that too, hurray!


 

offline oscillik from the fires of orc on 2003-02-07 06:24 [#00544839]
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heheh

i wish i didn't have to wear them, i mean, i look like a
geek to start with, let alone the glasses too!

they're a pain in the arse, i'm always having to keep
pushing them up the bridge of my nose, and i hate having to
take them off when i go to sleep

i actually kinda feel defective :(


 

offline surrounded from it won't be hard anymore to li on 2003-02-07 06:30 [#00544849]
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i dunno... i kind of like glasses. I think it makes a lot of
people look better than they were without glasses.

I once put on a pair of old glasses from my father to see
how they would look on me... but when i looked in the mirror
everything was blurry and i could only see a vague outline
of my head ;-)

But if you don't like them, how come you don't wear
contactlenses?

"i actually kinda feel defective :("

now that i can imagine... it must be kind of scary to
realise you can't see clearly without glasses :-/


 

offline Morton from out (Netherlands, The) on 2003-02-07 07:24 [#00544928]
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and remember the rules surrounded, you cheater!!! max. one
out of ten posts in your own thread can be yours, otherwise
we all could have 100+ threads ey?

e.g.
so with 70 replies.. your contribution to the thread may
only be 7 (seven) posts!

keep that in mind "oww-oww-my-ears"-cheating-lazy-man!!!

IT'S WAR!!! I declare war with you! ..and i tell ya, it
ain't going to some 'the winter of george'-kind of period
for you!

:P

(woow i didn't know i could be that impolite and tough..) :)


 

offline oscillik from the fires of orc on 2003-02-07 07:25 [#00544930]
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i have NO idea what's going on!


 

offline NeoExmnist from United States on 2003-02-07 07:27 [#00544933]
Points: 1385 Status: Lurker



i don't have any idea bout whats goin on
- bass cadet


 

offline Morton from out (Netherlands, The) on 2003-02-07 07:28 [#00544934]
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noooo oscillik!!! don't post in this thread!! post
everything you have to say in the "Does anyone have..."
-one!!!

you're ruining everything!!! :\


 

offline surrounded from it won't be hard anymore to li on 2003-02-07 07:28 [#00544935]
Points: 3787 Status: Regular



"so with 70 replies.. your contribution to the thread may
only be 7 (seven) posts!
"

The how do you explain that your thread about your big cock
(48 points) has no less then 14 posts by you?!

You cheating bastard! :-p


 

offline surrounded from it won't be hard anymore to li on 2003-02-07 07:29 [#00544937]
Points: 3787 Status: Regular



"some 'the winter of george'-kind of period for
you!
"

That's the summer of george, you dumbass!



 

offline Zombiekev from Ardmore (United States) on 2003-02-07 07:30 [#00544938]
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how'd they clean em?


 

offline oscillik from the fires of orc on 2003-02-07 07:31 [#00544940]
Points: 7746 Status: Regular



heheheh


 

offline surrounded from it won't be hard anymore to li on 2003-02-07 07:32 [#00544941]
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It's just morton being childish really.

He's obsessed with having the biggest threads on this board.
He won't be satisfied before his threads reach the 100+
replies.

And now he can't stand that this thread (started by me :-p)
is doing so well.

Such a childish little boy ;-)


 

offline oscillik from the fires of orc on 2003-02-07 07:34 [#00544945]
Points: 7746 Status: Regular



hehehehehe

i don't think my threads have gone above 40 replies?

*can't remember*


 

offline surrounded from it won't be hard anymore to li on 2003-02-07 07:35 [#00544947]
Points: 3787 Status: Regular | Followup to Zombiekev: #00544938



"For three days i had to put three drops of olive-oil in
my ears every night (to soften the wax a little), and on the
day itself she just used a very simple
device.

Have you ever had one of those toy injection-needles? From
plastic and not sharp at all. I used to play with it in the
bath when i was a little kid :-p

Well the device she used was alot like that (only a bit more
powerful i imagine). And she just used that on my ears a few
times (nice warm water too!), and that was it.

She warned me in advance that i might start to feel dizzy,
because some balance-organs are right behind your
eardrums apparantly, and a small percentage of people might
feel dizzy from the cleaning-procedure because of that. But
i didn't :-) It only took like 2 minutes and did not hurt at
all.
"



 

offline Zombiekev from Ardmore (United States) on 2003-02-07 07:37 [#00544949]
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i'll ask my doctor about

np (aphex twin - curtains)


 

offline surrounded from it won't be hard anymore to li on 2003-02-07 07:43 [#00544964]
Points: 3787 Status: Regular



(Reply to morton in the 'does anyone have' thread)

"That's different!"

lol! How is that different?! That was a fantastic argument i
just gave you, and all you can think of to say is "that's
different?!" tsk tsk ;-) I was right and you know it!

"and you cheat as well!"

But you started it ;-)

"Let's say one out of four posts then! That's reasonable
ey?
"

lol, whatever. It's not like i need to cheat anyway. My
threads are so fantastic that they'll beat yours without me
having to resort to dirty tricks ;-)

"AND THE THREAD ISN'T ABOUT MY COCK!!!"

Lol, you've got that one planned for next friday then? ;-)
Are you gonna let people guess the size? Like you did with
your iq :-p


 

offline Morton from out (Netherlands, The) on 2003-02-07 08:05 [#00545017]
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SURROUNDED!!! YOU GOT ME ULTRA-MAD NOW!!! THIS DRIVES ME
NUTS!!!
"I THINK I'M HAVING A HEART ATTACK"
"I'M NOT KIDDING"
"TIGHTNESS..."
"SHORTNESS OF BREATH"
"RADIATING WAVES OF PAIN"
"OW THE LEFT ARM, THE LEFT ARM!"
...
"WHY CAN'T I HAVE A HEART-ATTACK? I'M ALLOWED!"

I'll be off the mb in a few minutes...
...i'm pretty curious what the threads look like on Monday
:)



 

offline Morton from out (Netherlands, The) on 2003-02-07 08:09 [#00545024]
Points: 10000 Status: Addict



(well last post in this thread then...)

bye y'all, have a nice weekend!

(pachi, i'll change my avatar before i go offline..
otherwise the whole weekend people will be confused)

totdevolgendekeermaarweer :)


 

offline surrounded from it won't be hard anymore to li on 2003-02-07 08:13 [#00545031]
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have a nice weekend you crazy man ;-)

It'll sure be quiet here without having you around.

+i won't have internet-acces on sunday and monday... so...
oh my god... we'll have to go for THREE DAYS without talking
to each other :-o

Well see you later i guess, say hi to your cock for me...

oh wait, that came out sounding all wrong :-p


 

offline surrounded from it won't be hard anymore to li on 2003-02-07 09:56 [#00545235]
Points: 3787 Status: Regular | Followup to Morton: #00545017



LOL! I'm a little slow sometimes :-p
I only just realised that was actually a seinfeld-quote :-D
Nice one there morton!

GEORGE: I think I'm having a heart attack.

JERRY: I don't think that's it.

GEORGE: I'm not kidding.

JERRY: What does that mean?

ELAINE: I think what he's trying to say is that he's having
a heart attack.

JERRY: Oh, he's having a heart attack.

GEORGE: Tightness..

JERRY: C'mon.

GEORGE: Shortness of breath..

JERRY: Oh, this is ridiculous.

GEORGE: Radiating waves of pain..

JERRY: I know what this is. You saw that show on PBS last
night, Coronary Country. (To Elaine) I saw it in the TV
Guide. I called him and told him to make sure and not watch
it.

GEORGE: There was nothing else on. Oh, the left arm.. the
left arm.

JERRY: (To Elaine) He saw that show on anorexia last year,
and ate like an animal for two weeks.

GEORGE: Why can't I have a heart attack? I'm allowed.


 

offline uzim on 2004-05-07 10:17 [#01177180]
Points: 17716 Status: Lurker



there is something wrong with my left ear, i don't know what
it is, i've been seeing two doctors and none of them found
anything wrong. except that the skin is a bit peeling off,
and there is something wrong with my jaw too that may have
consequences on hearing (but only may) - i had a lot of
symptoms, but most of them disappeared, fortunately. i still
have a few, for example i get ear clogs regularly, like
every two weeks, it's annoying = /
or even when it's not a big clog, i know when i have
something because when i laugh, listen to someone laughing
or screaming, listen to some music, take a shower;... my ear
go SCKKKRSTSTTHSHCHCHZZKRRZ.

i have a liquid product to put in my ear which cleans them,
and to remove earclogs you're supposed to let the liquid
inside the ear for 15-30 minutes but it doesn't work all the
time... when it doesn't work i have to ask my father (he's a
doctor) to bring a device from the hopital to remove them, i
don't know how i would do if i lived alone at home...

also i have this weird pulsating sound at night, not
tinnitus, something much softer and not a "pure" sound like
beep, rather... the sound of stroking something, or what you
hear when you put a seashell to your ear (the sea if you
take it the poetic way, your blood streaming if you take it
the scientific or goth way)...

and other little problems too.


 

offline JAroen from the pineal gland on 2004-05-07 10:19 [#01177183]
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haha i remember this...


 

offline 3051 from Vietnam on 2004-05-07 11:29 [#01177323]
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Has anyone done ear-candling?


 

offline nacmat on 2004-05-07 11:46 [#01177362]
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wow I never thought I could clean my ears at the doctors

I use those things.... how you call them in english


 

offline PhystPhukt from The Holiest of Holes (United States) on 2004-05-07 11:47 [#01177365]
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Ear candling/Coning?

I did it once, I could hear mice shitting in Nebraska.


 

offline uzim on 2004-05-07 13:36 [#01177546]
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PhystPhukt > means it works well, or that you get
hyperacousia?


 

offline Ophecks from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2004-05-07 17:09 [#01177774]
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That was an awesome post. I can sympathize with you, my ears
are playing tricks on me as well. A lot of those sounds you
described are familiar to me, but a lot of them are actually
pretty pleasureable, gentle little rumbles that would
comfort me at night... except that they definitely shouldn't
be there. I think I'll get an aenima done on my ears, like
Surrounded. The results sound intriguing.


 

offline uzim on 2004-05-08 10:18 [#01178501]
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ah... glad to know i'm not the only one! =)


 

offline knobcheese from Perth (Australia) on 2004-05-08 10:50 [#01178524]
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c738 - inner ear problem - tinnitis - usually the higher
frequency hairs break inside your ear before any others due
to them being the smallest and most strained by the fluid
currents in your ear, they break at loud volumes, these are
rarely repaired

uzim - middle ear problem - get your eustachian tubes
checked to see if they're blocked cos it sounds like you
have a pressure build up (especially if it goes away
slightly when you drink something) due to the tubes not
allowing the pressure to equalise, you may also taste weird
shit at the back of your throat, especially when stoned cos
you're dying to taste anything but the ash.

surrounded - outer ear problem - wax overproduction, my
advice is to quit shoving things in yer ear so often cos the
ear will only try to protect itself more and produce more
wax if you clean it out too much.

anyone else i can help

the big green thing, i'd get checked for bacterial
infection.


 

offline pOgO from behind your belly button fluff on 2004-05-08 11:42 [#01178573]
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You can buy stuff over the counter that does the same as
profesional cleaning

It's this stuff you squirt in your ear. Not to sure what
happens after you squirt, the advert dosent show it =oD


 

offline uzim on 2004-05-08 11:52 [#01178588]
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uzim > i went to see two doctors, i asked the second about
eustachian tubes but he said if there was something wrong
with them it would have shown on the test... and there was
nothing wrong on the test... well... *shrugs*


 

offline PhystPhukt from The Holiest of Holes (United States) on 2004-05-08 11:55 [#01178591]
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Its just worked reaaaally well. And I ATTEMPT to Dj
sometimes, so I was off the tables for 2 weeks until my ears
got pleasantly dirty again enough to spin or play bass.


 

offline knobcheese from Perth (Australia) on 2004-05-08 11:56 [#01178592]
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you could arse them to shove something in em to open them a
bit.


 

offline 3051 from Vietnam on 2004-05-08 12:06 [#01178600]
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I have tried candling but couln't proceed since my imaginary
friends started coming out...


 


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