Got my physical done last year and the doctor, a black woman, told me to stop using them. She said they always know when patients use them since she saw a small build up deep in my ear that I hadn't even felt. She suggested just letting water from the shower head rinse my ears out and I was covered.
Exactly that’s what I do
i clean my ears in the shower with soap and water and just rinse them out
If you got good water pressure that should be enough
and like I said see an ent once or twice a year
I used to use q tips and one day I came out the shower and had water stuck in my ear
couldn’t get that shyt out for nothing
shyt was like that for a few days lol
I ain’t have health insurance at the time so I went to the emergency room and they had to flush my ear out
there was a piece of hard ass wax deep in my ear
q tips can just gonna push the wax in your ear and then ur fukked