Posted on 10/27/2023 6:51:27 AM PDT by Red Badger
Oct. 26 (UPI) -- A 64-year-old woman in Taiwan who heard clicking and rustling sounds for several days turned out to have a small spider in her ear canal, doctors said.
Dr. Tengchin Wang, director of the otolaryngology department at Tainan Municipal Hospital, co-wrote a case report for the New England Journal of Medicine detailing the case of a woman who sought treatment in April.
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Wang said the woman complained of a feeling of movement inside her ear as well as clicking and rustling sounds that prevented her from sleeping for several nights.
Doctors looked into the woman's ear and discovered a small spider and its discarded exoskeleton inside the woman's ear. They used a suction tube to remove the arachnid and its exoskeleton.
Wang said the woman did not feel any pain from the spider's presence because it was only 2 to 3 millimeters in size -- about .08 to .1 inches.
“Yeah, I pulled a splinter from her ear canal.”
“From her rear what??”
“This actually happened to me one time”
Egad!!
When I was a boy working in the cotton fields back home, I hated gnats. They were constantly flying in my nose.
I was trimming the fronds off of a Sago Palm in my yard when a small spider jumped off one of them and decided to hide in my ear canal.
I rushed into the house to the bathroom and flushed the critter out with water.
He was about the size of a dime.
It is the weirdest feeling you can imagine, there’s something inside my head but it ain’t me..................
yeah not that big a story. I had a blue fly land on my ear and walk right in because that’s what they do with deer.
We killed it first by pouring Olive oil into my ear.
Then the young intern went in with some little tweezer brought it out at the hospital.
But not until the other idiot doctor said he wouldn’t be able to stand that and would “shoot it out” if it were his ear.
I dimly remember this being part of the plot of a StarTrek movie. Maybe the one with Khan.
Better than an earwig
Yes, and also a Night Gallery episode.................
“They put it in the wrong ear!”
Yeah, while a kid, an ant crawled into my ear. Sounded like a bass drum, plus a very weird sensation.
yikes, you wasn’t up on a ladder or anything at the time where you?
No, Sago Palms are short..................
I’ve had both an ant and a spider in my ear - fortunately not at the same time. When the ant walked across my ear drum its six little feet sounded very loud. It never occurred to me to go to the ER or tell the newspapers about it.
I remember a news story from way back where a woman cut her tongue by licking an envelope and had a maggot grow inside her tongue because a fly egg was implanted.
I live in the part of Ohio that gets their houses invaded by Asian Lady Beatles after the first frost. Just yesterday a kamikaze beetle flew directly into my ear canal, and I was all alone. I ran into the bathroom and poured water into my ear several times and it came out, thankfully. I recently gave up driving because of my age and was not relishing the idea of getting a neighbor to take me to the ER because of an ear beetle. That story would have been told a hundred times at the old people meet-up at the local breakfast place every morning.
I had a tiny insect fly into my ear. Its wings pounding on my eardrum were deafening. My family thought I’d gone nuts. I couldn’t figure out how to get it out. And I couldn’t hear them asking me questions because of the pounding in my ear.
I don’t know why, but this story made me think of the scene from one of the “Jackass” movies where the guy goes to the doctor with a matchbox car up his rectum.
It was a joke on the doctor to get his reaction. The guy goes in complaining of rectum pain. The ER doctor takes an XRay and it shows a small toy car stuck up his behind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGOHE1zqEmY
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