Gross and Health: What are you doing ear?

What are you doing ear?

By JK710 - 23/06/2009 01:13 - United States

Today, I discovered that the hearing in my left ear is still good. I haven't been able to hear that well out of it for 2 weeks and I thought I popped an eardrum and waited for it to heal. I stuck a Q-Tip in there to clean it out. Turns out there was actually a dead fly in my ear. For 2 weeks. FML

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By Xandriajoy10 - 08/03/2016 11:56 - Australia

Today, a fly flew into my ear canal and got stuck. It was the most horrifying 2 minutes of my life. FML

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By IHaveThePower - 21/02/2022 02:00

Today, something blocked my ear. I couldn't get it out, so I went to Urgent Care so I didn't pop my eardrums. Turns out my allergies made my ears stop draining. After they rinsed my ears, I can now hear almost nothing. FML

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By caempa - 29/12/2010 18:13 - Australia

Today, I was taking my earrings out and thought I had lost the back of one. Turns out my ear infection has caused the flesh of my ear to grow around and engulf the back of my earring and it is still stuck in there. FML

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Double trouble

By Anonymous - 28/05/2019 20:10

Today, I found out that the doctors accidentally perforated my left ear drum performing a routine wax syringing. I was at the doctor's for a completely different reason, having crushed my pinky at the gym. They can't fix either and my finger needs surgery, which can't happen until next week. FML

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By Anonymous - 19/06/2018 20:30

Today, my excruciating ear pain turned out to be a bastard maggot eating away at all the vital things behind my eardrum. The doctor pulled it out, but I’m now permanently deaf in that ear and can’t balance. I fall if I try to stand or walk further than 5 feet. FML

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Waxing and waning

By Anonymous - 24/12/2010 07:15 - United States

Today, I went to the doctor's to get a checkup. When the nurse stuck the Otoscope into my ear to look, she was disgusted. When she pulled it out, she told me that I had an ear infection, and that she'd popped a pimple in there by mistake. FML

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By bodhimae - 03/05/2009 07:15 - France

Today, I was taking a nap on the couch when my 2 year old daughter decided that daddy needed an ear cleaning. With all the grace of toddler-hood, she stabbed me in the eardrum with a Q-tip. Now I can't hear her coming. FML

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By John - 26/03/2012 02:53 - Saint Lucia

Today, I discovered that it is possible for bugs to lay eggs in your ears. FML

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Coming through

By Anonymous - 09/08/2023 18:00

Today, I was cleaning wax out my ears when my wife came barrelling into the bathroom, desperate to pee. The door slammed right into the side of my head and the cotton swab I was using was pushed all the way in and ruptured my eardrum. FML

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By lbelle - 07/10/2012 23:39 - Canada - Montreal

Today, my right ear drum ruptured. My family doesn't understand that I only lost hearing in one ear and continues to talk about me behind my back, thinking I can't hear them. FML

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drano 0

Tuesday 23 June 2009 9:42

How would it have gotten in there without you feeling it? Unless you were sleeping o_O still, gross.

IDoNotHaveAIDS 0

Tuesday 23 June 2009 9:56

OH SHIT! THAT'S ******* NASTY! THAT POOR FLY GOT COVERED IN EAR WAX.

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Tuesday 23 June 2009 10:12

That's ******* messed up and you should take care of yourself.

Lokies 0

Tuesday 23 June 2009 10:25

that is bloody disgusting.

NewLight8421 0

Tuesday 23 June 2009 10:26

one time when i was like 5, a fly flew into my nose and it took FOREVER for my mom and dad to get it out while my brothers were watching :O

Evilbeagle 0

Tuesday 23 June 2009 10:26

Actually, folks, this is more common than you think. I had a bad ear infection a few years ago and ended up in the emergency room, and while no one pulled a bug out of my ear, it was one of the first things they checked for when they flushed it out. Bugs can and do get into ears without people noticing it.

redbluegreen 40

Tuesday 23 June 2009 10:28

You should've gone to the doctor if your ear hurt for more then three days. It's just a good idea.

obff527 7

Tuesday 23 June 2009 10:28

....... that's disgusting... i have a minor phobia of flies... i would have shit bricks dude...

bambi73 0

Saturday 14 January 2012 7:01

Yeah I would have the weirdest feeling for the next couple days in my ear.

ShenziSixaxis 0

Tuesday 23 June 2009 10:32

That's quite disturbing. O_o And you would have been in horrible pain if your eardrum bursted. Especially with water in it (assuming you HAVE showered/bathed in the past two weeks).

ladidadi 0

Tuesday 23 June 2009 10:58

Yeah, if you thought you popped an eardrum, why wouldn't you go to the doctor anyway? Who just doesn't go to the doctor when they randomly lose most of the hearing in one ear??? Why would you not get it checked out? 2 weeks??? Wtf?