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[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

Isn't this just earwax removal?

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

It may be caloric reflex testing. That would explain the goggles. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caloric_reflex_test

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

also the eyes moving to one side. First time I have ever read about this, thanks for sharing

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Do you have to plug your goggles into an outlet before earwax removal as well?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

When your brain explodes out your other ear, you don't want to be getting any in your eyes. Also, its not a plug, it just ties them to the table so you don't steal them.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

I guess this is rinsing an infected ear. The eyes are protected to prevent droplets of possibly infected goo entering them.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I have a special syringe for this. I had impacted ear wax a few years ago and I went to urgent care to get it rinsed. Turns out my other ear was also impacted, just not as bad. After the rinse, I could hear in 3D. I felt like I shouldn't have been allowed to drive home because it felt like I was on acid it was so overwhelming. On the drive home I heard a crappy Honda with a bad exhaust drive by and I was scream-laughing at how visceral it was.

Now I rinse regularly in the shower and don't get to have free acid trips :(

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I had to go get urgent care wax removal after a wax hunk shifted and plugged up my ear painfully. I was at college and had my parents' crappy insurance. I got billed $350. I bought several irrigation devices and an endoscope that plugs into my phone after that. NEVER AGAIN >:(

Congrats on your cool drug-less trip lol

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

The ear part is. Whatever is happening to the eyes isn't.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yep. I have a kit for this in my medicine cabinet.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

With goggles and all?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

No goggles, just a windex-sized spray bottle with a plastic needle tip, saline solution, and the shoulder bucket

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