Venting Thread Delta - Now With Easy to Follow Rules

[empath]

Does it have to be a punch? I prefer the Jethro Gibbs Patented Head Cuff™:

[Phailhammer]

You have to make sure it makes the right noise on impact, or it's just not worth doing.

[viscomica]

Aaaaaah, men, huh? HUH? no? okay

[empath]

Yeah...men; we are SUCH scum...

[Bebop Man]

Grrr men.

[The Jester]

[MinniChi]

As a female, I do love to complain about the males in my life, but I know some really terrible women as well. At least two who are worse than all the men put together.

[LogicSword]

I have to be up in six hours to start the journey back home and I'm not even mildly sleepy.

[Bebop Man]

I think I may have insomnia too... I'm up to like 5 or 6 every night...

[Kapol]

I think I may have insomnia too... I'm up to like 5 or 6 every night...

I know that feel. Insomnia's a pain in the ass, especially when you need to wake up early for stuff.

Also, unrelated, fuck my right ear. The other one's not that good, but the right one... I hate it. :/

[Bebop Man]

Hearing problems?

[Kapol]

It's clogged up, again. It's always my right ear that gets clogged up. And I can't get rid of the clog myself. I've been trying, but stopped since I've gotten some blood on my qtips. Which means I have an ear-infection again, and can barely hear out of it. Which means another trip to the doctor to get it cleaned up and get some antibiotics.

The problem is that neither of my ears drain water well. At least I think that's the issue. I'm not sure why the right one specifically has the more annoying issue.

[Bebop Man]

I hear you (ba dum tss), I spent half my childhood with some sort of ear infection drilling into my brain (feels like anyway). Otitis is called. It's supposed to be more or less common.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otitis

[Kapol]

It wouldn't be so annoying if I didn't have to deal with constantly hearing the low hum (kind of like a high-frequency sine wave with a lower intensity) thanks to it. I hear that when it's really quite, and since I can't hear much from the blockage... it gets really annoying if I can't take my mind off from it.

[Ptangmatik]

have you tried olive oil? I've got this little ear-spray bottle for whenever my ears get a bit clogged, seems to work reasonably well as a wax solvent as long as you don't mind spending 30-45 minutes with your head at 90 degrees.

[Kapol]

I managed to unclog it. I ended up using a little... ball-squeezing things. It was in a wax-removal kit I didn't know I had. It took a while of trying before it worked, but it worked pretty well. Thanks for the advice though. It's just a problem that happens once every couple months and always bothers me.

[empath]

Another alternative is hydrogen peroxide; I used it in the same way (without the 'turkey baster bulb') a week ago when I got a blockage - it was driving me mad; constant ringing, 'popping my ears' by working my jaw wasn't shifting it, and eventually just gave me sore muscles.

Did that that evening when I got home from work, repeated it the next morning, then had a shower and consciously got water in the ears and it fixed it.

One thing I can suggest in future: if you're going to use Q-tips in your ear canal, keep them from touching the sides as you move it in, then bring it down against one side and pull out, the repeat with a different part, etc. I think I got lazy and ended up pushing wax IN further one morning, causing my problem.

[Elomin Sha]

Does it have to be a punch? I prefer the Jethro Gibbs Patented Head Cuff™

You do the Jethro stare first. Then the Head Cuff.

[Laurnil]

They also have these ear candle things. You like stick it in your ear and light it and lay on your side until it burns down and then you pull it out. I have no idea where you buy these. I've never tried them. However, I've heard they're really effective and I've always wanted to find them and try.

Also, yea, stop using Q-tips. Apparently, they're actually bad for you. It is better just to use that ball-squeezy thingy regularly. Or, so my doctor told me.

[Laurnil]

Also, I'm not all man-hating. I just punch people who don't respect women who have just had a baby! Some people just don't seem to respect what that means. Did your body just grow another human being and extract it through a hole that is normally just a little bit bigger than an asshole? No? Then shut the fuck up.

[Darkobra]

My friend is deaf in one ear from using those medieval draconian devices. Don't shove things in your ear.

[auberginequeen]

I get earwax clogs all the time because I wear headphones so much. When you say "little ball-squeezing things" I think you're referring to what I use, which is Murine. It comes with a little blue thing that you fill with water and then flush your ears with.



I love that thing. So many blocks cured by it.

For those who are thinking, "argh what if you rupture your eardrum or something?!" I used to go to the doctor for the blocks and all she'd do is point this giant metal watergun in my ear and spray water into it, at a much higher pressure than this thing produces. Hurt like hell. This is a much better alternative.

tl;dr: Murine is great, I recommend it to everyone.

[Kapol]

Another alternative is hydrogen peroxide; I used it in the same way (without the 'turkey baster bulb') a week ago when I got a blockage - it was driving me mad; constant ringing, 'popping my ears' by working my jaw wasn't shifting it, and eventually just gave me sore muscles.

Did that that evening when I got home from work, repeated it the next morning, then had a shower and consciously got water in the ears and it fixed it.

Yea, I read that as a way of dealing with it. But given I had gotten some blood on some Qtips, I figured putting chemicals in my ear wasn't a good plan. That's also why I didn't use the medicine the ball thingy came with. But I'll keep that in mind in the future, thanks.

I get earwax clogs all the time because I wear headphones so much. When you say "little ball-squeezing things" I think you're referring to what I use, which is Murine. It comes with a little blue thing that you fill with water and then flush your ears with.



I love that thing. So many blocks cured by it.

For those who are thinking, "argh what if you rupture your eardrum or something?!" I used to go to the doctor for the blocks and all she'd do is point this giant metal watergun in my ear and spray water into it, at a much higher pressure than this thing produces. Hurt like hell. This is a much better alternative.

tl;dr: Murine is great, I recommend it to everyone.

The thing itself isn't called a Murine I believe, that seems to just be the brand. I believe mine came from a generic Meijers brand set similar to the one pictured. But yea, the reason my first instinct was the ball was for the same reason you mentioned. The doctor always used basically the same thing. And as you mentioned, it hurt quite a bit when I had it done there. The draino-ball, as I will now call it, works like that, without so much force. But that also means it took longer too.

[empath]

Does it have to be a punch? I prefer the Jethro Gibbs Patented Head Cuff™

You do the Jethro stare first. Then the Head Cuff.

Not always, sometimes you do the Stealth Head Cuff From a Marine Sniper Outta Nowhere, and then say "Grab your gear; we got a case."

[Darkobra]

If smacking people made men out of them, there'd be a lot more men around me.