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https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/13/asia/cockroach-ear-new-zealand-scli-intl/index.html

When 40-year-old Zane Wedding went swimming last week, he left with more than he bargained for -- a cockroach, which burrowed inside his left ear and stayed there for three days.

Wedding, who is Mori and works for Greenpeace, had taken a dip at his local pool in Auckland, New Zealand, on Friday, when, unbeknownst to him, the creature had crept inside his ear.

By the time he got home, he had the sensation that his ear was blocked.

"I used some drops to clear it up and fell asleep on the couch later that night," he told CNN Thursday.

"When I woke up in the morning and it was still blocked I went straight to the doctor. I was waiting for the doctor [surgery] to open up, it was that infuriating," he said.

She thought the pain in her skull was a headache. It was a live cockroach

Initially, the doctor thought he might have been experiencing blocked water, so advised him to go home and use a hairdryer to dry it out.

But Wedding knew something didn't feel right.

"I left the doctor with no relief at all. I spent most of the weekend laying on my side or jamming a hairdryer in my ear. When I had to walk around I would instantly be dizzy. When I would lay down, I could hear the water moving around my ear drum," he said.

"Over the weekend I tried anything I could for relief -- ear candles, jumping on one leg, chewing gum, I went for a run -- just anything I could think of [to] get the ear to clear."

On Sunday night the wriggling suddenly stopped but the ear was still blocked, so Wedding booked in to see an ear, nose and throat specialist on Monday.
As soon as the doctor looked inside his ear, according to Wedding, she said: "Oh my god, I think you have an insect in your ear."

Zane Wedding said he felt a pop as soon as the insect was removed.

"In that moment I realized every movement I'd felt over the weekend was the cockroach moving around in my ear. I instantly thought of the fact I had just been pumping hot air into my head and cooking a cockroach in my ear canal all weekend. It made me feel sick," he said.

The doctor extracted the dead cockroach in a procedure that took less than five minutes.

"Every time she touched it I just imagined her squishing a cockroach into my eardrum, so I wasn't the perfect patient. It was instant relief... I felt a pop as soon as the doctor pulled it away," he said.

"Once I knew it was a bug it all clicked together... That's why the water would move even when I was still. It was a cockroach moving in my head."

yum

Nightmare fuel

Sleep tight. Don't let the bedbugs bite.

I had a silverfish in my ear once. It freaked me out and felt terrible, but fortunately it crawled out on its own after I poked at it for a while.

No

Was hoping for a removal video

https://youtu.be/-K7fCQlUhj0

It could be worse. I have seen a video on Youtube which shows a person's ear infested with tiny fly maggots.

That's always the kind of thing your brain says if your ears feel a bit clogged. "What if something went up in there when you sleep".

Gross

nightmare fuel... and here I thought it was bad when I learned that earwigs have wings and can actually fly.

Everyone sleep well?

Robot2600 posted...

Everyone sleep well?

I wont tonight, thats for sure.

Reading this caused a lot of uncomfortable shivering, shriveling, and clinching for me.

I had a bug of some sort fly into my ear once, it was mostly just startling and I tried to grab it and get it out (not sure if I was successful). and then hours later it started hurting, and into the next day, and I kept trying to wash it out in the shower and stuff but it was still hurting

eventually I went to a local urgent care clinic and had someone look at it, and it turned out the bug wasn't in there anymore. no idea at what point I'd managed to get it out. and the pain was just the result of me scratching some stuff in my inner ear trying to remove it. it stopped hurting after a week or two so happy ending I gues but that was about 1.5 years ago and I'm still slightly spooked when I hear insect buzzing near my ear

cockroaches are huge, though. there was another story about a woman who needed a roach removed from her inner ear, and i still don't understand how they can possibly sneak in there

viewmaster_pi posted...

cockroaches are huge, though. there was another story about a woman who needed a roach removed from her inner ear, and i still don't understand how they can possibly sneak in there

The babies are the size of a grain of rice, so they can be any size between that and a full-grown adult.