They fly too!!
I would have considered using a vacuum cleaner. The hose would have to have a slider opening to allow for controlling the pressure.
It took almost two weeks and three doctors to get the whole thing out.
Here in Upstate NY, the constant freezing and thawing in winter makes it difficult for roaches to survive. Unless one’s house is a real sewer, you won’t ever get roaches.
Good thing i sleep with earplugs in. LOL
i think there was story years ago on tv’s Monster inside of Me of a little girl this happened to. took a few trys to get the right doctor to help her.
At around twelve years old a moth flew into my ear outside around dusk. The thimg fluttered like crazy and was at times painful. After a few minutes my parents got it out by flushing my ear with warm water.
One of my brothers had a ladybug fly into his ear. It flew out the other.
I just lost my appetite for the rest of may.
In your ear?
I mean, I know they just legalized marijuana, but, even though I've never tried it, even *I* feel confident enough to tell you you're doing it wrong.
That’s the best story I have ever read in SELF magazine.
Okay, it’s the only one, but It was good.
I just HAD to check FR right before bedtime.
What a horrid story. I believe I’ll have nightmares tonight over that one.
The stupidity of this post is amazing.
Yes insect on rare occasions crawl into the ear canal. The solution is very simple. Flood the ear canal with olive oil or the kitchen oil of your choice. The insect will die quickly. Pick the insect out with tweezers and then flush the ear canal. Olive oil or other oil is free as you have it in your kitchen, tweezers free if you have them about two bucks in the store. An ear wash bulb if necessary about three bucks. Flush the ear with saline which is also free, just put a bit of salt in water and use that. If you are really picky buy saline wash for about 3 bucks at the drug store. Total cost less than 7 dollars.
Cost to go to the ER about 500 dollars.
I went through similar this week except it was a bug that flew in my ear last Sunday while I was riding my bicycle at night. The buzzing of its wings nearly drove me insane with panic trying to get it out, very nearly causing me to wreck my bike.. A passing rider stopped to help and blew cigarette smoke in my ear claiming it would make the bug fly out. It worked as the buzzing stopped and I continued my ride happy that the bug vacated my ear.
Happy until I woke up during the night with more buzzing. My poor husband was abruptly woken up with panic due to a bug in my ear. He left for Walmart in the middle of the night to return with an ear syringe, H2O2, ear cleaning kit, and minced garlic as Walmart did not carry garlic oil as I requested.
He flushed my ear with the H2O2 that stopped the buzzing, but nothing came out. He then flushed and flushed, still nothing. Ear cleaning kit yielded nothing. With all the flushing and digging, we decided that the bug went down the drain and we just didn’t see it. We smashed and strained the minced garlic to get some oil, put it my ear and sealed it with a cotton ball to prevent infection and went back to bed; although I had a nightmare about driving off a cliff and falling to the bottom of a lake and my seatbelt would not come undone causing me to drown due to the plugged ear. Fun night.
Today I went to the doc with a terrible earache. Yep. Dead bug inside ear along with infection. Doc got it out and now on antibiotic drops. No insurance thanks to King Zero, causing me to spend a pretty penny over a bug.
I understand the panic and ;horror the woman went through except I probably would have had a heart attack if it had been a roach. Mine was only a little “love bug” according to my doc.
Lesson learned. Ear buds for me while on my bicycle. Keep REAL garlic oil on hand for emergencies. Not the crap in the minced garlic jar.
They fly too!!
“I Went to the ER with a Live Roach in My Ear and It Was as Horrifying as You Think”
Roach bad. Gerbil worse:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quqGKDqi3Yw
Armageddon!!
I’m not even going to read this. Yuck.
My son pulled a wild panic on my wife and I. He told us that he planted a bean in his ear to see if it would grow out in a planat. He didn’t anticipate that the bean would expand as it went through the germination process. I turned into a pain he would not forget. Thankfully the ER doctor had a gripper appliance that grabbed that plant and pulled it out of his ear. It was very much like a bean sprout.
Just... eww.
Got halfway through the article when I realized I had my head tilted to the side, vicariously experiencing your ordeal.