I’ll start: my ear wax. Several months ago, I observed what I thought to be extra wax coming out of my ears. Since then, I can’t stop trying to keep my ears clean. Wash in the shower with soap every day. Stick my finger in there when nobody’s looking to try to get some out. And so on.
I don’t use q-tips, and I know the advice is to simply let it come out when it wants. But I hate cleaning the gunk off my AirPods! Stupid ear wax, I think I feel some now.
Unpopular opinion: you can absolutely use Q tips if your ear canals are wider and you don’t just jam it in.
What I do is start at the entrance and twist as I go in and again as it’s coming out. My primary care has never found anything wrong with my ears.
Yup. My ear canals are much wider than the average q tip, so I don’t really use them as plungers, they’re more for scraping the sides.
I am terrified of losing my hearing or otherwise damaging my ears (long story, not that interesting), so I simply refuse to use them as far in as I safely could.