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#1
12-10-2005, 11:02 PM
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Re: The myth of Q-Tips?
This is true. You actually push the wax farthe into the ear canal and eventually the eardrum can become obscructed. Of course this varies between people; some folks don't get much build-up, even using q-tips for years. One of my ears actually got totally blocked a few years ago, partially from using Q-Tips. Now I don't use them anymore and I haven't had more problems.
Swede 
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#2
12-10-2005, 11:05 PM
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Re: The myth of Q-Tips?
I wonder how many people have been murdered by the Q-Tip people in the coverup of this discovery
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12-10-2005, 11:16 PM
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Re: The myth of Q-Tips?
So, I had the (dis)pleasure of living with a girl in my last semester of college. One of the stranger things I had seen her pull out of her bag of tricks is something called an "Ear Wax Candle," and they're supposed to do the trick. The few times that I saw the end result, it actually did pull out a lot of what was in the ear.
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12-10-2005, 11:48 PM
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Re: The myth of Q-Tips?
The Candle rules.
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12-10-2005, 11:17 PM
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Re: The myth of Q-Tips?
This is true, from what my doctor told me. I was completely deaf out of my left ear for a week and hwen I went to the doctor to find out why, he said that I pushed the wax back in with the Q-tip. He then flushed out my ear and I was fine.
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12-10-2005, 11:23 PM
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Re: The myth of Q-Tips?
[ QUOTE ]
This is true, from what my doctor told me. I was completely deaf out of my left ear for a week and hwen I went to the doctor to find out why, he said that I pushed the wax back in with the Q-tip. He then flushed out my ear and I was fine. [/ QUOTE ] Same thing happened to my grandfather. I also beleive his doctor gave him the "smaller than your elbow" line that Euro heard as well. A friend of mine said that when she visited Ireland, she couldn't find Q-Tips anywhere. Are cotton swabs an American thing?
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12-10-2005, 11:23 PM
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Re: The myth of Q-Tips?
[ QUOTE ]
This is true, from what my doctor told me. I was completely deaf out of my left ear for a week and hwen I went to the doctor to find out why, he said that I pushed the wax back in with the Q-tip. He then flushed out my ear and I was fine. [/ QUOTE ] Same thing happened to me in college. It's pretty impressive how much wax can get crammed into such a small place.
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#9
12-10-2005, 11:32 PM
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Re: The myth of Q-Tips?
A couple coworkers have gone to the doctor to have their ears flushed/cleaned out, and they both said that it was amazing how much got yanked out of their ears and how much cleaner they felt.
I am still scared to try it, though.
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#10
12-10-2005, 11:40 PM
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Re: The myth of Q-Tips?
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A couple coworkers have gone to the doctor to have their ears flushed/cleaned out, and they both said that it was amazing how much got yanked out of their ears and how much cleaner they felt. I am still scared to try it, though. [/ QUOTE ] what are you scared of ? having your ears rinsed out at the doctors is pretty much awesome.
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