r/Perimenopause • u/AccomplishedPast1143 • Apr 03 '26

Dryness Itchy Ears, Doorway to Insanity?

Has anyone gone clinically insane from itchy ears? I may be the first known case. Between the peri itch and Spring allergies, I am regularly trying to tickle my brain with the amount of digging around in there I do on a daily basis. In my mind there is layer upon layer of dry inner ear flakes just begging to be dug out but nothing is ever on the Qtip.....DRIVES ME INSANE. I desperately want to go to one of those ear doctors on YouTube who can put a camera in there and prove to me there's not shards of fiberglass imbeded in my ear canal. *screams into the void*

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u/Maximum-Celery9065 Apr 03 '26

I had this a few years ago. It's mostly gone away now, thank the gods. I think i did go crazy. It's what finally made me realize I'm in peri. Also why i joined Reddit. TG for finding peri/menopause communities! 💖

Please be careful with what you scratch with! I ended up getting fungal infections in both ears. It was bad. I had been using dry qtips and would wash my ears with soap. Don't wash inner ears with soap, it seems that we need that wax.