Ways to prevent wax build-up??
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My ears block up with wax regularly and for years I have been going to the doctor every 6 months and getting one ear or the other syringed. The wax is very compacted – it doesn’t come out easily when the doctor tries to flush it out and it is a painful business. I’m worried that one day one of my eardrums is going to get damaged.
I was wondering if anyone has any experience of a way to prevent the wax build-up in my ears so that I don’t have to go to the doctor and get syringed.
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@jack-jason Do you regularly put anything in your ears... especially hearing aids, ear plugs, or earphones? These can constantly push the wax back into the ear and so compact it. Your pharmacist should be able to advise you about ear drops that can be used, but you may just be one of those people who produce a lot of earwax. ask your doctor if a weekly treatment of a few drops of olive oil may help. You could do this yourself.
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@hailey I do put things in my ears. My wife is a heavy snorer and I'm a light sleeper - it's either move to another bed or use earplugs, and I don't want to move. Anyway, I had the problem with wax for many years before my wife's snoring started to bother me - probably the earplugs have made it worse.
My doctor did suggest putting a few drops of olive oil into my ears regularly as you suggest, but he said he had no idea if it would work. I was just wondering if there was anyone here who had actually tried it (or anything else).
I'll probably try doing that, and then maybe go to the doctor before the wax has built up to be a problem, and ask him to check my ears. Maybe syringing at that point will not need to be so forceful. Anyway, thanks for the response