So... the ringing continues to persist.

Hmm, I'm not sure if I'd like to advise using ear candles... (who knows though if I could have avoided tinnitus using ear candles, instead of opting for the water syringing...)

But...

From what I could find, ear candles don't seem to remove ear wax, but instead they can cause more wax buildup (candle wax going into the ears).

Something to look at:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14979962
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8849790
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2231549/

Ear candling appears to be popular and is heavily advertised with claims that could seem scientific to lay people. However, its claimed mechanism of action has not been verified, no positive clinical effect has been reliably recorded, and it is associated with considerable risk. No evidence suggests that ear candling is an effective treatment for any condition. On this basis, we believe it can do more harm than good and we recommend that GPs discourage its use.

 

You might have hearing loss even though you don't seem to "feel it". You could be having hearing loss at higher frequencies etc...

It just strikes me very odd that many have suggested you go see an ENT (instead of a regular doctor, who really don't know much about ears) and get a hearing test done, but you seem to be set on waiting it out. Which I think is the wrong way of doing things as there could be some underlying cause that would need treatment done quickly. I wouldn't want you find out weeks or months from now that you could have done something if you had gone to an ENT sooner rather than later.

That's just my opinion though.

(Even if the regular doc suggested you wait a week or so, I'd myself still want to see an ENT sooner. I'm stubborn like that.)

 

Yep but probably I wouldn't have got rid of the wax with ear candling....

Still, I guess it would have been better in the worst case scenario to get even more more wax due to ear candling than being wax-free with tinnitus, oh But I really can't continue blaming me anymore. I've done my share of that already...

I'm usually quite cautious about alternative treatments, and there's just no real evidence of any sorts of ear candling helping remove ear wax. All the PubMed results say otherwise - ear candling seem to cause more harm than good.

I just wanted to give another opinion on the matter of ear candling here If a technique is ancient, it in my humble opinion doesn't automatically mean it works or should be used nowadays, especially when modern studies suggest it's best to avoid ear candling.

(And yes, everyone can and should make up their own minds, but I'm just offering a different point of view here, which is solely based on current conventional medicine's stance on the matter).

Happy weekend to everyone, I'm going to go and watch "End of Watch" now, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Anna Kendrick, et. al. This has been a good day so far, thank goodness...