Quit cleaning my ears with Q-tips

I used to work in a call centre with head phones on the whole day, and as a result I would clean my ears once a day, I know it’s not good, but I cannot quit it now that I am not working in the call centre any more, I need to stop.

1) when i went to brazil recently, a friend’s newly made boyfriend experienced, out of pretty much nowhere, “the worst pain [he’s] felt in [his] life” in his ear.. the doc said it was from q-tip usage!

2) a tip from my girlfriend’s mom’s doctor-friend: “never put anything smaller than your elbow in your ear”

3) i read that repeated use of q-tips in the ear, for cleaning or the dreaded “ear-itch,” can result in a lack of ear wax which can cause, retrigger and/or worsen the ear-itch!

4) don’t do it folks! i’m trying my darndest now, but i will have to abstain from receiving the eargasm i get when my ear itches so much, and just deal.. hopefully the itch will go away once my brain realizes it will not get me that eargasm.. more to come soon on the progress and testing of this theory.

I might be crazy, but I give myself about 2 ear infections a year from doing this!