NHS and Removing ear wax

Charleygirl5

I have just discovered by googling that some Specsavers do ear syringing. Mine does but no price mentioned.

£55 where I live.

Newatthis

Warm olive oil does the trick.

Not always. I have had to book at Specsavers, it costs £55.
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Never put anything in your ear smaller than your elbow!! Syringing can damage your ear and end up causing more problems than the wax. Stick to the oil

Please be careful if you syringe your own ears you could end up perforating them.

I have found a Specsavers about a mile away from me who does it. My closer branch does not, unfortunately.

Amazon sell syringes, as other posters said a few days of olive oil and a syringe at home, easy!

Farmor15 me too using a veterinary syringe. two days of olive oil then I did it myself - huge wodges of wax appeared and I could hear!!!!

I had mine syringed at the GP's several years ago so they could check whether it was just the wax causing my hearing problems (It wasn't). It was quite painful and I gather they have stopped doing it because of the danger of damaging the ear drum.

Farmor15

I do my own using icing syringe -probably not recommended but works for me!

Just had a vision of a load of fondant icing being squirted into your ear!

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I do my own using icing syringe -probably not recommended but works for me!

I don’t think they do it at our GP any more.
Dh had his done (I think by suction) at Specsavers, about £50 IIRC. Not all branches do it though.

My husband is no longer able to get his done by the NHS in any way, I’ve tried everywhere. He was summoned to a hearing test last week but told if he had wax in, he’d be sent away and have to get them cleared first but they would not do it! He had it done last year at a private clinic at a cost of £80 which was the micro suction and he found it uncomfortable.

So I rang round everywhere and found a private clinic 20 miles away who would do it with the water for £15 for one ear, £20 for two! We decided we had to do it so saw a very pleasant nurse who welcomed me into the surgery as well, looked in, checked and said he had no wax, so.......no charge! Unbelievable! I don’t understand how they can afford to do it but it does mean we’d go back to them another time.

We get referred to our local hospital - I had to wait 2 days (prepandemic)

I have just discovered by googling that some Specsavers do ear syringing. Mine does but no price mentioned.

Warm olive oil does the trick.

No syringing here either. The suction method is better all round.

Yes, shortly before Christmas I had both ears cleared at my local surgery. No problems afterwards.

No, not in my surgery. I buy ear drops. I have a friend who has had it syringed privately and it cost close to £90.

they stopped here several years ago saying it was not safe and caused more damage, so they suggest you pay for that suction thing (sorry I have forgotten the medical terminology )

Yes, about a month ago. No problem whatsoever.

No, our GP stopped a few years ago. Allegedly someone incurred a perforated ear drum and sued, how true that is I don’t know. I have to go privately, it’s expensive.