Here I am

Not a tinnitus story, but...

I went to my GP about six months ago because I was waking up in the morning with a plugged ear. It would usually clear up within the first hour or so of being awake but it was super annoying. He figured it was a Eustachian tube problem, said take an antihistamine and it would clear up.

Fast forward to ast week, the problem did not clear up and I was back in the office talking to a different doc who said “ antihistamine? Why would he say that?” He leaves the room comes back with a bowl of hot water and a gigantic metal syringe. Blows hot water into my ear for a minute or so and pulls out a massive knot of waxy grossness. Probably three quarters of an inch long. All of a sudden I can hear perfectly out of my ear and I didn’t even know my hearing was affected. Morning ear blockage gone.