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My right ear itch deep inside9/24/2023 ![]() I know it's a troubling condition, but the best thing to do is to leave your ear alone. What I thought was helping was actually perpetuating the problem by removing the wax and causing the itch. I had been using q-tips in an effort to clear out whatever it was that was causing the itching. The reason? The umpteenth ENT I visited simply explained that ear wax is a lubricant to prevent the ear from drying out & itching. I haven't gotten an infection in almost a year, and the bug-crawling sensation has lessened. The skin in that ear looks different because you are probably often scratching it, or rubbing it, or tugging on the ear to try to get a look at it in the mirror to see what the heck is in there that's causing the trouble! All these will cause the skin to become inflamed. For whatever reason, it was always one ear or the other, but never both at the same time, so there was always a way to compare the appearance of the skin in one ear to the other. I realized it was the itching that was causing the problem so I saw several doctors in an effort to get to the root of the problem. I've experienced the same thing for about 5 years now - in alternating ears- and for a while I got frequent (and severe!) staph infections in my ears from scratching them. I've heard the same thing from doctors more than a couple of times. I just HAD to comment on your physicians' comments that the skin in that ear looks. ![]() I couldn't help wondering if this is something that could have been caused by putting some kind of solution or something into my ear as I slept that night. I know that some of them had broken into my home also near that time. In the course of my work, I made several enemies and had received other kinds of harrasment. I was working as a private detective at the time (I have changed professions since then). For one thing, I could not understand how I could have never experienced anything like this problem for my entire life, and then one night I go to sleep with no symptoms whatsoever, and the next morning wake up with symptoms that can only be described as very advanced and very extreme indeed. I have always suspected that the original diagnosis may have been wrong. I can't find the doctor that originally diagnosed the problem (I have since moved away from that part of the country). These drops helped a little, but not much, and certainly did nothing to cure the problem. She prescribed a concoction that was invented by a local doctor that he had named "itchy ear solution". She did say that the skin in my left ear did not appear to be normal, though she had never seen the condition before. She said she could not see any kind of bug or organism, and she did not know what the problem was. She looked at the skin through some kind of large microscope thing. ![]() ![]() Recently I visited an ear, nose, and throat specialist. Sometimes it is a small region that just feels numb and tingles. Sometimes it feels like a single large bug crawling. Now the feeling has changed a little bit as well. It never again moved into the area deep within the ear canal, but got more and more bothersome in the outer area. the part that catches sound.) Afterwards, the problem got worse and worse. The feeling of bugs deep within the ear canal went away, but the feeling persisted in the outer part of the ear (where the canal widens out into the strangly shaped flesh of the outer ear. (Stupid me - didn't write down the name of the drops either.) The drops almost cured the problem. He wrote a prescription for some drops to put in my ear. He took one look and said that I had some kind of skin condition (he had a long name for it that I don't remember). Eventually I did go to see an ear specialist. One night it got so bad I went to the emergency room, but they could not see anything wrong with my ear, and suggested I see an ear specialist. None of these "treatments" had any effect at all. Believing it was some kind of bug or organism, I tried to kill it by poring hydrogen peroxide in my ear, and then iodine, and then a kind of ointment meant to kill ear mites in cats. I did not have insurance, and for this and other reasons I did not seek professional medical help. It was as if zillions of microscopic bugs were crawling in my left ear canal. About 5 years ago I awoke to an incredibly irritating feeling.
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