Don't BUG me!
By ElicBxn
@ElicBxn (63643)
United States
March 14, 2012 9:42pm CST
I was sitting at my computer, minding my own business, checking mail, playing a facebook game, and answering discussions when IT happened!
"It?" you say... what "IT?"
I like to watch those emergency room stories and stuff, and one thing I have seen, and actually worried a bit about, were the "bugs in the ear" stories.
Texas has bugs...
LOTS of bugs...
I was actually attacked by a moth last night trying to get into the house, but I'm not talking about the moth.
And I had been inside for almost an hour.
Suddenly, my ear "closed up" and I heard that... kind of like water in the ear sound and I felt... well, like nothing I'd ever felt before except with an earache... Now, this hurt, but I've never had an earache come on that fast.
I tried to reach in, to no avail, so I put my finger on the little flap and ran for the bathroom.
I kind of throw my glasses off on the way and just then the roomie got up from her 4 1/2 hour "nap". She opens the door and asks if I'm okay - she says after the fact I looked like I was going to throw up.
"Get the alcohol," I say. She goes and looks in the hall "medicine cabinet" but I pull a bottle out of the bathroom one.
"Can you put some in my ear?" I ask.
She unscrews the lid, fills the lid with alcohol, and pores it in my ear, and down my neck, on my shirt and her shirt.
"What's the matter?" she asks, sensibly after I've dumped my ear.
"I think its a bug?" I tell her.
"What? Like a gnat?"
Just then I spot the small beetle on my neck. "There it is!" I say as I flick it into the sink.
"That's a big bug!" she says.
"And if didn't feel good either!"
I tried to explain how it felt, but you can see how well I did for y'all.
The bug died swiftly after the alcohol "bath". At least it was small enough to be washed out. I've seen those ER shows where they have these GIANT bugs in the ears!
Now I have to worry about this a bit more because it really DID happen to me!
You ever had a bug some place it didn't belong?
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14 responses
@BarBaraPrz (47670)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
15 Mar 12
A flea once hopped down my cleavage as I was crossing a parking lot...
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@BarBaraPrz (47670)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
15 Mar 12
Oh, and I should say I'm glad you got the bug out.
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@BarBaraPrz (47670)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
15 Mar 12
Might make for a funny video, though.
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@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
15 Mar 12
I know it has sounded like it could happen, but i never knew it could be true. omg, now i have another thing to worry about. 
i have been afraid something would crawl in my ear while i slept. but others have said its just another phobia of mine. 
so now i know. thanks for telling us about it. 
@GardenGerty (160949)
• United States
15 Mar 12
Usually they fly into my open mouth. I was always freaked out by earwigs, which I never saw until I moved to California. First of all, because I assumed they got their name from where they liked to hang out and secondly because they had those pincers on the front. I am glad you drowned your bug.
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@pergammano (7682)
• Canada
15 Mar 12
Quick thinking...good thinking on your part, but I can imagine the trepidation...as you can't see in your own ear, and I imagine the pain was excrutiating.
Some of our lakes, here in B.C. have "leeches" in them (same kind used medically for infections and gangrene)...and one attached itself to my lower back! You do not feel them, as when they latch onto you, they emit a anaesthetic into the area! It was only found when I leaned back in a chair...squashed it, and blood everywhere (course looked like a gallon..but not)! I had to have the head medically removed. Always on the look=out for "ticks" tho' and especially on my little "furry" friends!
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@blue65packer (11826)
• United States
15 Mar 12
I have never had anything like that happen to me before! I remember reading an article,in the newspaper,a few years ago. A boy had gone camping with his family. He had discomfort in one ear and he heard weird noises also. His parents took him to the doctor and it turns out two spiders had made a home in his ear! The doctor got the spiders out and I never forgot that story! Then last summer while watching ESPN"s Sportscenter, I hear the story of one of the St.Louis Cardinals outfielders getting a moth in his ear while playing! I can't think of the player right off hand but I rmemeber hearing the trainers had to take him into a dark room and use a flash light to get the moth out! I will never forget that story either!
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@tipay26 (867)
• Philippines
15 Mar 12
That's very scary a bug on your ear :-s.That incident never happened to me and I am praying that it would never happen to me as well.Your place is invaded by bugs?I guess the best solution for that is to apply insect repellant lotions whenever you will have to step outside your house.It is very irritating to have something on your ear really so for protection I guess that's the most convenient way I can think of insect repellant lotions . ;)
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@ElicBxn (63643)
• United States
15 Mar 12
These are mostly bugs that have been attracted by the front light. We turn it on after dark so we don't forget and have the other roommate come home in the dark. If they were the kind of bug attracted by the warm body, (or CO2 or whatever) I would use an insect repellent lotion...
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@buenavida (9984)
• Sweden
19 Mar 12
Yes, once when I was in a macDonald restaurant.. Some kind of but suddenly was in my back under the clothes. 
I managed to get it out, but it bit me.. But I am still alive..
Suddenly for some mysterious reason, I started to appreciate our cold winters here in Sweden..
I managed to get it out, but it bit me.. But I am still alive..
Suddenly for some mysterious reason, I started to appreciate our cold winters here in Sweden..1 person likes this
@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
19 Mar 12
Oh that does sound gross, glad for you that the wretch came out so quickly.
This year, I have noticed several times that a mozzie or similar has found it's way into my ear while I'm asleep. I wake up to the buzz and pull on the little flap and it has come out. But there was one night and that didn't happen. It didn't come out. I sat up, still mostly asleep, and got my torch from my bedside drawer and held it to my ear. No change. I thought...the bloody thing has got stuck in there. It was at about this point that I felt that I was dreaming. I swallowed some water but that didn't work and so I put my hand on my ear and lay back down on that side and went back to sleep. When I was telling my friend next day, the feeling that it was all a dream came over me again and so I ended my story saying, "It was only a dream you know."
A few weeks later, I was rubbing my ear with my finger and this big black gross thing came out. It looked sort of like a mozzie but with black gunky fibres on it. I realised that my dream of a few weeks back, was in fact, reality. Yuck.
@AmbiePam (93883)
• United States
16 Mar 12
When my dad was at a youth summer camp once one of the teens starting going nuts, saying something was in his ear. So they got a flashlight, took him into a dark room, and shined it into his ear. The bug walked on out as soon as it was hit with the light. Then, last year I was watching a baseball game and one of the outfielders called a timeout. The trainer came out and he was pointing to his ear. He kept hitting it, and the trainer couldn't see anything. I saw him mouth the word, "moth". So they had to take him out of the game. Later the outfielder said they flashed a light in his ear in a dark room, but it wouldn't come out. So they got the tweezers and pulled the moth out in pieces. All the guys on the field were laughing because he came out of the game, but it looked really uncomfortable.
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@choybel (5042)
• Philippines
15 Mar 12
I think I had a similar experience before. I remember many years ago, I was a kid back then, as I woke up I complained to my mom how my ear ached so bad so she had a look and later on told me to lay down sideways with my aching ear faced upwards. She then took a bottled of baby oil, if I'm not mistaken, and poured a lot of it in. I didn't know what she was doing, I just closed my eyes and later I drained the oil out and she took something out. I never found out what it was, but thinking about it now makes me sure it must have been a bug, probably a cockroach. Good thing I never got to see what it was a sit could have traumatized me at that age. I hate crawlers, especially cockroaches, I had once that crawled right up inside my jeans from the feet part and I was dancing,hopping, and screaming like a crazy girl. It's very humiliating, doing that around people. Even if they were just my family.
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@bellis716 (4799)
• United States
16 Mar 12
I 've had bugs fly up my nose, but I've always been able to blow them out.
Right now, we are having a problem with gnats. They fly around my face and drive me bonkers.The most I've ever seen at one time is 3. I'd like to know what has brought them and how to get rid of them.We don't have any overripe fruit laying around. They especially bother me because, at times. I see "floaties" that look like gnats. These are really in the room, not in my eye. I can feel them wen I swat at them and sometimes actually make contact. I'd like to make contact with a fly swatter. b ut they never land long enough.
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@ElicBxn (63643)
• United States
16 Mar 12
I know what you mean! Those darn gnats! I've actually gotten some with the fly swatter, mostly at Maggie's, but that's because I have time to hunt them there!
I think they even breed in a thimble full of standing water so look at any plants you have in the house!
@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
17 Mar 12
My mother went to the emergency room once when I was younger with a bug in her ear. One of those hard snappy ones. I don't know how it ever got in her house and to her ear..but it did. It was pretty traumatic to her too. I guess there was a lot of pain involved when it was scratching on her ear drum She would flip out if she thought there was bug going to get in the house or if she saw one. I remember when I would visit her and she would freak out at them flying around her porch light. I kinda freak out too just because I know it happened to her.
She would flip out if she thought there was bug going to get in the house or if she saw one. I remember when I would visit her and she would freak out at them flying around her porch light. I kinda freak out too just because I know it happened to her.1 person likes this
@chrystaltears (3392)
• United States
19 Mar 12
I've had a bug fly up my nose before where I had to hurry up and blow my nose. Didn't hurt though. Just the thought of it being up there grosses me out. And I have had those nasty annoying ticks get in my panties and under my arm and in the edge of my hair and my ear. Yuch. Yuch. Yuch!
Glad you got it out and there were no problems or other issues!
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@obe212003 (2299)
• Philippines
15 Mar 12
That's really awful as I couldn't imagine a bug getting into my ears, ouch! I had one incident while driving a motorcycle with no helmets on during the nigh and drove through a rough road where in small insects were roaming free in the air, and one got caught in my nose and it was really painful.
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