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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What?

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.

Comments

Courtnaayy 0

Tuesday 23 June 2009 17:56

Better a fly then a giant June bug somebody had in their ear on The Untold Stories of the E.R. Be thankful :]

sappy082996 6

Tuesday 19 July 2011 12:46

lol I saw that episode. I got so creeped out when I saw it O.o

wpwpwp 0

Tuesday 23 June 2009 17:59

what is with the bugs in the ears lately?

HAHAHSUCKS4YOU 0

Tuesday 23 June 2009 17:59

Clean your ears more ..simple as that . Ydi

fallout024 0

Tuesday 23 June 2009 17:59

OMG. I would have thrown up . on the spot.

k3llyb3lly 0

Tuesday 23 June 2009 18:51

i got the shivers when i read that.

zee209 0

Tuesday 23 June 2009 18:59

If you popped your eardrum you would have known right away. Not only can you not hear, but there is EXTREME pain like you've never felt before.

jackiekinz04 0

Tuesday 23 June 2009 19:19

Uhhh how did you not feel that? haha And that is really gross! I can't even have any insect TOUCH me, if I would have found out that is was living in me, I think for the rest of the day I would most definatly be cleaning my ear, over and over again.

lakeylove 0

Tuesday 23 June 2009 19:41

I think it's a good time to check your nose! you know if one fly was in there for so long maybe they are some in your nose. take em out before your head is their home sweet home

jessicaherley1 0

Tuesday 23 June 2009 20:16

HA! The exact same thing happened to me when I was little! but, i didn't find out for like, 2 months, and when I did I was at the doctors office, and he called in all the nurses and other doctors because he found it humorous and then I had to sit and have water squrited into my ear for about 4 hours. oh, man, thats sucks