how important is it to you?

[Balboa]

I've had blockages of wax on and off in my right ear for about two months or more, and for the last four weeks it's been completely blocked up, solid. It's like it being constantly underwater. I've tried using warm almond oil to soften it up and that hasn't shifted it, and I've been to the doctor twice and they advised me to try Otex and Earex, which I've used for two weeks and still no joy.

It's REALLY fucking me off, as it's like being almost completely deaf in one ear, but I also have really bad tinnitus in it too which never goes away. When I get home on monday I'm goingg to make an appointment to go and get it looked at again, and maybe get it syringed as a last resort, because I can't go on with this. On top of everything else it's just one more thing driving me up the fecking walls.

Just get it syringed - it takes a minute or so to do and is a really standard procedure. I don't know why your doctor hasn't done this already.

[soundchaser]

I've had blockages of wax on and off in my right ear for about two months or more, and for the last four weeks it's been completely blocked up, solid. It's like it being constantly underwater. I've tried using warm almond oil to soften it up and that hasn't shifted it, and I've been to the doctor twice and they advised me to try Otex and Earex, which I've used for two weeks and still no joy.

It's REALLY fucking me off, as it's like being almost completely deaf in one ear, but I also have really bad tinnitus in it too which never goes away. When I get home on monday I'm goingg to make an appointment to go and get it looked at again, and maybe get it syringed as a last resort, because I can't go on with this. On top of everything else it's just one more thing driving me up the fecking walls.

Just get it syringed - it takes a minute or so to do and is a really standard procedure. I don't know why your doctor hasn't done this already.

Definitely the way to go. I have mine done by the nurse at out health centre every couple of years, or so.

[naughty boy]

I remember hearing quite ordinary things and they sounded fantastic simply because I'd gone a month or whatever without hearing any pop music at all.

Yes! It's interesting how that works, it's a bit like sex

WHAT a NAUGHTY BOY!

[Minnie the Minx]

Well, not much has changed in nearly ten years!
I'm going out to guitar practice and I was playing a couple of new CDs and I was so excited to hear one of them I nearly buckled over and fainted!

[fange]

It's as essential to my feeling of well-being and happiness as food, and i'm not really exaggerating. If I can't listen to music regularly, I get antsy, grumpy and sad.

[KeithPratt]

I love it still, but it doesn't consume me like it did back then.

I read Patrick Leigh Fermor's treatise on silence a couple of years ago after he had spent months living in a monastery - and to me that's just as important as music itself now.

Living with someone changes these habits irrevocably too.

[Nuts]

Silence - schmilence

[Darkness_Fish]

It's pretty much an all consuming hobby. There's little in life that gives as much pleasure as revisiting an old favourite, or discovering something new. And little as disappointing as seeing another Beatles discussion.