Many thanks to everyone who offered advice. In the future I may give the do-it-yourself method another try. This time, because my attempts made it worse, I decided to go to my (GP) doctor. I called for an appointment monday morning and just got back from having it done.
My GP did it in his office so there was no charge to me. And there was no "machine". It was a plastic spray bottle with a 10" tube coming out the nozzle. At the end of the tube there's a special fitting to keep the tube from going too far into the ear. I believe it contained only warm water because he kept adding more at the sink. Then he used metal tweezers several times to pull out big globs of wax. Not exactly high tech but very effective.
So now I have normal hearing; it's great to be able to hear again.
Last edited by Villages PL; 10-30-2012 at 04:23 PM.
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