Thread: I have.....candle wax....in my ear canal

Damn, that sucks. Maybe you could try some baby oil and hold your nose and try to force it out? Like when you need to pop your ears. What a strange predicament. Also considering the amount of ear wax people produce, I'm assuming the ear has some sort of...natural means of cleaning itself? I dunno though.

why would you put that in there silly sir. Try hot water

Originally Posted by Aquanina

Dang, that sucks. Maybe you could try some baby oil and hold your nose and try to force it out? Like when you need to pop your ears. What a strange predicament. Also considering the amount of ear wax people produce, I'm assuming the ear has some sort of...natural means of cleaning itself? I dunno though.

Fortunately, God has indeed supplied the ear canal with a natural means of removing ear wax. It usually takes about a week for the canal to totally clean itself.

However, ear wax is much softer than candle wax, and so I'm wondering if it will also come out.

Doctor. You're not going to be melting candle wax out of your ear with hot water without feeling a lot of pain.

http://www.ehow.com/how_4393022_clear-clogged-ears.html
http://www.wikihow.com/Unclog-a-Clogged-Ear

These work absolute wonders for clogged ears, but with earwax. I don't know how effective they'll be with candlewax.

If it's enough that you can barely hear out that ear, you need to not mess with it anymore and see a doctor. At the very least, if you're in high school, go to the nurse's office on Monday.

I found some of the links ExoByte gave on google, and I rinsed my ear canal out with hot water.


It hurt. Pretty bad.


But now, I can hear relatively well out of my right ear, and am satisfied to wait for the rest to come out on it's own.

My mom told me a horror story about how she had a buildup in her ear canal once, and they used a wire to scrape it from her canal. By the time they were done, her ear was bleeding.

I'm content with waiting.

Yea, you are at the point where its probably best to go to the doctor. You don't want to dig yourself any deeper.

Wow. Just wow, Noogah. I'll admit though, I lol'd, quite hard.

Originally Posted by Alwaaaays

Wow. Just wow, Noogah. I'll admit though, I lol'd, quite hard.

If you say you have not done something stupid in your lifetime, you will be lying.

Originally Posted by Noogah

If you say you have not done something stupid in your lifetime, you will be lying.

To this magnitude? Yeah... no. I don't even know how someone manages to get candle wax in the ear in the first place. A testament to your intelligence, Noogah.

Originally Posted by Alwaaaays

To this magnitude? Yeah... no. I don't even know how someone manages to get candle wax in the ear in the first place. A testament to your intelligence, Noogah.

In fact, this is a matter of rather small "magnitude". Getting candle wax in the ear canal is actually quite easy.

1.Pick up the wax

2. Place the wax in the ear

3....right. That's all.

I am certain that a little bit of thought would have brought you to said conclusion. I would return your insult and say that your inability to arrive at this conclusion is a "testament to your intelligence", but I'm quite confident that you knew how it could be done.


Also, candle wax can be used as an effective ear plug. It is moldable, thus conforms to the shape of the ear, and retains relative flexibility due to the temperature of the ear canal, and so conforms to chewing etc.

I pushed in too far this time.

Originally Posted by Noogah

As a matter of fact, this is a matter of rather small "magnitude". Getting candle wax in the ear canal is actually quite easy.

1.Pick up the wax

2. Place the wax in the ear

3....right. That's all.

I am certain that a little bit of thought would have brought you to said conclusion.

If you made the conscientious decision to pick up candle wax and place it in your ear, thinking it was a good idea, that is in fact idiocy of a great magnitude.

Originally Posted by Noogah

Also, candle wax can be used as an effective ear plug.

It would appear so, based on the fact you couldn't hear out of your right ear.

Originally Posted by Alwaaaays

If you made the conscientious decision to pick up candle wax and place it in your ear, thinking it was a good idea, that is in fact idiocy of a great magnitude.

It was a good idea for reasons I have already stated. What was not a good idea was to push it in as far as I did. However, that is a very simplistic and easy to make mistake.

Originally Posted by Alwaaaays

It would appear so, based on the fact you couldn't hear out of your right ear.

...and that would mean that my endeavor was successful.

Originally Posted by Noogah

It was a good idea for reasons I have already stated.

Ha ha ha ha, you got wax in your brain, too?

Originally Posted by Noogah

I was being an idiot.

But at least you can take solace in the fact that you have brought so much laughter to so many people.

It wasn't a good idea, will never be a good idea. If you wanted to reduce the level of noise, you could've used ear plugs.

I lol'd.

You speak as thought the subject is objective. That is rather unintelligent of you, Tami.

Since when have you been the unquestionable expert on all things ear?

Yeah Tami, stop being unintelligent.

Well, I once had a white-out pen explode in my mouth. (I bit the end and all the white crap flooded into my mouth.)
Nothing like your situation, though.

I honestly think you should go to the doctor, only because if you try doing too many things to it, it may just get worse...
If you really don't want to go, though, maybe try putting hot water in your ear and tilting your head so that it has a chance to try and move the wax before you tip it out..?

Good luck..

Originally Posted by Noogah

You speak as thought the subject is objective. That is rather unintelligent of you, Tami.

Since when have you been the unquestionable expert on all things ear?

And anybody else figures what you did was a good idea? Any hands?

Wait, I'll be nice. *raises hand*

Damn people... seriously, it's not THAT stupid. I can see making earplugs out of wax. I know people used to do it all the time back in the day, before you could just walk into a mega mart at 4 in the morning and pick up anything you want in custom plastic packaging manufactured for your consumerist convenience.

In my grandfather's day they used to have to make most of what they needed... including clothes.

Wax would make a good earplug, as long as you leave a big chunk of it sticking out so you can pull it out later. Not hard to see somebody not realizing that on a first attempt.

Originally Posted by Daydreamer14

honestly think you should go to the doctor, only because if you try doing too many things to it, it may just get worse

'Fraid your a bit late. I left it alone, and it's nearly all gone, so, I'm fine.

Originally Posted by Noogah

'Fraid your a bit late. I left it alone, and it's nearly all gone, so, I'm fine.

It's migrated deeper into your cranial cavity.

Next time, try leaving a bit sticking out with the wick still in, then if it gets stuck you can light it to soften things up.

I'm sure this is a good idea, and you will be, too