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My ear is currently blocked, sometimes painful but the pain is not bad and it just comes and goes but usually its just the blocking please assist?

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Dr. Stuart Hickerson answered

Specializes in Family Medicine

Cerumen: Common cause for blocked ear is ear wax. Consider otc cerumenolytic.

Answered 3/15/2019

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