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Is it necessary to do?
Is your tinnitus reactive?
I was only after I worsened through microsuction that I investigated a lot and read many times that it isnt always necessary to remove the wax if there isn't an immediate reason to.
Not trying to scare you further, as mang with t get it done, but wondered why you felt the need?

Insist on doing manual removal with a curette. It is probably the safest method and usually takes even less time than other ones.

@DeanD So about three weeks ago, I woke up and could barely hear from my left ear. Turns out that I had excessive earwax.

I believe it got blocked due to the position I was sleeping. Ocasional in-ear hearing protection overtime may have contributed to this as well.

Thankfully after just two sessions of ear drops in the same day, I could hear properly. However, right now I feel in the borderline between being blocked again despite the fact I can hear well.

Tinnitus is reactive but it has improved a lot, I would say 75% of the time it is not reactive and 25% of the time it is reactive. One year ago, it was the other way around, perhaps maybe slightly worser.

So that's the main reason why I'm kind of skeptical, since I myself believe that mine was caused due to earwax removal and I know that a substantial amount of people on this forum also got tinnitus due to earwax removal as well, regardless of the method used.

But at the same time, I'm not exactly sure if the the ocasional flare up I get might be due to the accumulated earwax, because the first time I heard ringing on my ears, I had excessive earwax.