I was shocked wen i found out that tissue paper was stuck in my ear since last month. Be fore last month, i had catarrh, i knew it was a sign of malaria bt i hd no money for malaria drugs so i bought actifed to cure d catarrh first, normally wen i blow my nose it will feel as if air filled up in my ear, then it would clear after some secs, bt this time only d left ear clears while d right clears after some mins, it ddnt bother me dt much......See Full Story>>.....See Full Story>>
After i cured d catarrh, i noticed dt my right ear dsnt hear clearly as my left ear, i first thought it was due to the catarrh, then i started thinking maybe it could b because i listen to music with only my left ear, maybe it made my left ear to b more sensitive than d oda so i started plugging my earpiece on the right ear bt it still ddnt balance even wen i inreased d volume to the highest.
After 2 weeks the catarrh came back since i ddnt take malaria drug d first time, this time wen ever am talking, i feel a kind of bass sound in my right ear, after curing d sicknesses it stopped bt it ws stil nt as clear as d oda ear, i cleaned my ear bt there wsnt much wax in it and it still ddnt help d situation.
Last week, i started noticing that anytime am taking my bath, wenever i pour water in my right ear, it gets stuck instantly and refuses to flow out normal on its own unless i put my finger in it. I felt maybe my ear wax has accumulated again bt i ddnt get chance to clean it until last night. I felt something was obstructing my right ear, i thought it was too much wax bt ds one was a little bit hard to penetrate, wen i brouht it out, it was a white substance mixed with wax, it felt just exactly as a tissue paper soaked in water, i was shocked, i went into the bathroom and started rinsing my ear with water, i asked my brother to look into my ear and he comfirmed that my ear was very dirty, i thought it was just wax bt wen i asked him the colour he said it was whitish in colour, the ball of tissue was deep inside my ear canal and very close to my ear drum, he knew he had to b very careful to get it out, we thought of using a broom stick bt it wont be strong enough to drag d tissue out and if we used the hard part of a broom stick it will obstruct his view, d only tin we had in mind to use was a needdle (not the pointed side). We started operation, it tickles allowing someone clean my ear since ears are sensitive organs bt i had to be very steady to avoid rupturing my ear drum, it took him a lot of positioning, steadiness and carefulness, i had to hold my outer ear so dt he can see clearly and know wen to stop inserting the needle, it was tickling and painful each time he touched the tissue, i will be hearing a bass sound in my ear, the moment he starts draging it out, the pain increases since the whole movement was creating friction in my ear canal, there is a point he will drag it to and my ear will block just as when u block ur ear with ur finger, if i cant take d pain anymore i would remove my ear from it and he will end up having small pieces of the tissue, after few trials he dragged out a huge piece of the tissue, i felt a little bit relieved bt there were stil more of it inside and deeper than d previous ones, this time i could feel my ear drum and feared that i could loose my hearing, my ear canal started getting hot and i couldnt take it anymore so i told him to stop, at a point i felt maybe i need to see a doc, i poured water in my ear to force it out, blew air out of my ear, shook my head many times bt it wasnt working cos d ball of tissue inside was too large to be forced out with water, it needed something to drag it out.
I started doing research on similar situations, many of them were removed by docs, some used water, some used olive oil, i even thought of drinking water and forcing it out from my ear bt i ddnt see any result like dt online, I poured olive oil in my ear n slept with my right ear facing down. I woke up this morning n nothing happened, since d pain has stopped, i told my brother to resume, he saw blood inside bt it wasnt flowing out, since d needle caused d wound we had to use a broom stick, after few trials he removed half of the tissue paper, the last one remaining inside was small enough to pass through my ear bt it was exactly on the surface of my ear drum, we cant risk puncturing my ear drum so he forced water into my ear and i shook it out, immediately dt piece left, my ear was back to normal, as we continued doing that we were able to flush out every thing, i took a pain medicine and antibiotics to avoid ear infection.
I use ear buds b4 to clean my ears bt after the cotton wool got stuck in my ear, i stopped using it and started wrapping tissue paper on a match stick and using it to clean my ears. I thougt it was safer since i can easily drag it out. The mistake i made was cleaning my ear immediately after bath, maybe there was one time a large piece of tissue melted in my ear and i ddnt notice.