It started small.
Just a slight muffled feeling in one ear. Like water was stuck inside after a shower.
At first, it didn’t seem like a big deal.
So like most people do… I grabbed a cotton bud.
It felt like I was doing something. Cleaning it. Fixing it.
But over the next few days, things got worse.
The muffled feeling turned into pressure.
The pressure turned into discomfort.
And then came the ringing.
I kept using cotton buds, thinking I just needed to “get it out”… not realising I was actually pushing the wax deeper and deeper.