OliveOilMom wrote:
Go to the drug store and get some of that wax removal stuff. It will have a bottle of stuff (mainly peroxide I think) and a bulb syringe. This is how I do it. Put 10 drops of the stuff in your ear. Hold your head to the side for at lease 5 minutes. You can lay down if you want. You'll feel it running down in there, maybe even in your throat or it will feel like it. Then fill the sink up with warm water, not hot. Fill the bulb syringe up with the water, and while holding your head over the sink, stick it in your ear and squirt it, fairly hard. Hold your head straight up until you get the hang of it. I go twice in each of the four directions in my ear with it, and sometimes you will feel the wax sort of and can get "down up under it" with the water. When that happens youll see nasty little pieces of it that come out.
To prevent this from ever happening again, clean the inside with a q-tip every day after your shower and do the squirty was stuff once a month.
Stay away from those ear candles, they just look too dangerous.
I do this with my youngest boy about once a month. I think he could start a candle factory.