I don’t like opening up about the problems I’ve experienced with my earwax. It’s a really disgusting topic to cover, really.
I hated using cotton swabs when I was a kid. I once pushed one too hard and got scared that I could become deaf. My mom says it was so traumatic for a 5-year-old me that I couldn’t stop crying for a couple of days.
Then after many years of putting it off, I finally tried using cotton swabs again - as an adult, I got used to them pretty quickly, it wasn’t too bad I’d say. Why did I go back to cotton swabs? I figured I might be in danger of impaired hearing.
In so many years of not cleaning my ear canals the earwax in my ears became so packed I started having hearing problems - that’s what my doctor told me. Moreover, I started hearing ringing sounds in my ears, and turned out I had tinnitus.
However, using cotton swabs only made it worse. Little did I know that cotton swabs are bad for ear cleaning in general - they only push the earwax further, making it harder and harder to hear.