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[quote=Anonymous]Agree with water irrigation at urgent care. If they can't get it done they will refer you to an an ENT.

As someone with similar issues, I have found that cleaning out my ears every couple of weeks with a few ear drops, a bulb syringe, and warm water prevents this from happening at all. The ear drops are just to soften the wax so that it's easer to flush with water. No q tips, they just push the wax further back in your ear.

You can also buy the ear irrigation spray bottle they will use at urgent care, from a medical supply store. Personally I have found it is too hard to maneuver it on my own ears and prefer the syringe which I find easier to aim (takes a little practice but once you figure it out, it's easy -- about has hard as learning to floss your teeth).

Being able to do this at home was a big quality of life upgrade for me. It's now weird to me that teaching people how to clean out ears with water isn't taught as a normal part of hygiene growing up, because everyone I know who is prone to waxy buildup (including me) has done what you are now doing -- suffering with discomfort, mucking around with q tips even though they expressly say not to use them to clean out ears, and ultimately seeking a medical pro to deal with the problem when it gets really bad. It's really not that hard to do yourself, it's just that for some reason no one ever really explains this and I had to figure it out myself via trial and error.[/quote]

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