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MrsMitch

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Re: Dryness driving me mad
« Reply #15 on: February 04, 2025, 07:50:40 AM »

Northerngirl, thank you for your vocabulary 🤗. Nana and mither! My parents & grandparents were northerners and its lovely to hear those words again, I miss them!
Onto the topic: the only thing I am familiar with is the ears part. I'm presuming you mean inside the ear canal? I've had intense itching inside mine since I was little. Been to every GP and specialist but back then, and it's not as if it was the dark ages, no one ever seemed to know what is was. I've spent my life with either a finger of kirby grip or anything else down my ear to scratch!
Now we have a friend who has a hearing aid business and also does wax removal.  She can't see anything visibly wrong but suggests using any type of natural moisturiser (I use the coconut oil I use on my bits) putting a little on a cotton bud and carefully getting it all round the inside, but obviously not deep. Then she said to use any type of local anaesthetic cream if it gets really bad, which it often does. She sees it a lot in people and if they're women she says menopause does make it get worse, I know mine has. So no permanent solution, just things to get relief.  That's obviously providing you don't have condition suggested above. I also wonder if you were to treat your hair with a hair oil from time to time it might help your scalp? I've never read the ingredients so I guess if they contain any irritants,  I do know a lady who uses olive oil once a week. Hope that might help a little.
PS: feel free to speak northern to me!! Do you know 'clemmed'?
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Re: Dryness driving me mad
« Reply #16 on: February 04, 2025, 09:26:13 AM »

Northerngirl, thank you for your vocabulary 🤗. Nana and mither! My parents & grandparents were northerners and its lovely to hear those words again, I miss them!
Onto the topic: the only thing I am familiar with is the ears part. I'm presuming you mean inside the ear canal? I've had intense itching inside mine since I was little. Been to every GP and specialist but back then, and it's not as if it was the dark ages, no one ever seemed to know what is was. I've spent my life with either a finger of kirby grip or anything else down my ear to scratch!
Now we have a friend who has a hearing aid business and also does wax removal.  She can't see anything visibly wrong but suggests using any type of natural moisturiser (I use the coconut oil I use on my bits) putting a little on a cotton bud and carefully getting it all round the inside, but obviously not deep. Then she said to use any type of local anaesthetic cream if it gets really bad, which it often does. She sees it a lot in people and if they're women she says menopause does make it get worse, I know mine has. So no permanent solution, just things to get relief.  That's obviously providing you don't have condition suggested above. I also wonder if you were to treat your hair with a hair oil from time to time it might help your scalp? I've never read the ingredients so I guess if they contain any irritants,  I do know a lady who uses olive oil once a week. Hope that might help a little.
PS: feel free to speak northern to me!! Do you know 'clemmed'?
MrsMitch, thanks for the advice.  I might try the coconut oil...I was always under the impression that you shouldn't put anything in your ears but I'll try it.  It's not that they're itchy it's like earache in the right one sometimes. Out of interest which anaesthetic cream do you use??

This morning I've woke up with a really sore throat so think they're obviously connected...maybe caught something from darling grandson 😂.
Re the northern vocab ....I've not heard clemmed 🤷‍♀️I'm north eastern originally so might be from another part of the north.
It's funny you noticed nanna and mither cuz to me they're just everyday words 😂😂....lovely to hear from you 🥰
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CLKD

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Re: Dryness driving me mad
« Reply #17 on: February 04, 2025, 12:23:20 PM »

Morning.  I get sudden, intense pains in the ears, enough to go OUCH! and then it's gone.   >:(

Warmed olive oil for the ears?  Long B4 olive oil was used at the table in the UK it was dropped into the ears/nose.
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MrsMitch

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« Reply #18 on: February 04, 2025, 01:35:41 PM »

Ooh not experienced pain, that's a bit different. But yes, they do say never put anything bigger than your elbow in your ears! However, if I didn't I'd go crazy with the itch. You can put oil or cream in using the top of your finger if you'd prefer. I use Lidocain local anaesthetic available online. Or if you prefer you could try the olive oil they sell that in little spray bottles with a nozzle to fit in your ear. I can't remember the brand but they sell it in hearing aid shops, for wax. It's very thin so almost clear.
My parents were from Manchester so maybe slightly different words, but clemmed was my dad's favourite. He used to say he was 'right clemmed' when his mouth was dry and he needed a cup of tea 😆. Mum was always telling me to 'stop mithering' 😆 I'm going to try and think of some more. Lots of love ylto you 🥰
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Re: Dryness driving me mad
« Reply #19 on: February 04, 2025, 02:15:42 PM »

I believe we have a similar thread:  mithering was used in the Fens: Trostle = threashold ; squit speaks for itself?
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Re: Dryness driving me mad
« Reply #20 on: February 04, 2025, 05:07:02 PM »

I tripped over the trostle back I the summer and my knee is still numb 😆😆 I like that one 😁
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Re: Dryness driving me mad
« Reply #21 on: February 04, 2025, 05:08:24 PM »

Thank you MrsMitch and CLKD for your advice....I will definitely be trying everything suggested.
Will have to search for this vocabulary thread and see what's there. Another word NITHERED ....do you know that one? Very apt atm....it means very cold 😊 xx
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MrsMitch

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« Reply #22 on: February 04, 2025, 09:03:24 PM »

No I haven't head that one. How about donnies? That's hands 😆 and bowbees (I'm spelling it phonetically) is bed time. Jiggered is tired. Clacker is that little dangly bit at the back of your throat.  TBH I think my dad just made up words for things half the time.
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« Reply #23 on: February 04, 2025, 09:51:01 PM »

The olive oil spray is really good. Clears out any excess wax too. I think it's called Earol. I bought my last lot in Home Bargains so it was fairly cheap.

I'm loving all these northern words, I'm a northerner myself so feel right at home, or reet at wom.  ;D

MrsMitch -- my kids always went bobies or bobos with their dody/dodo  :D
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MrsMitch

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« Reply #24 on: February 05, 2025, 07:36:37 AM »

So bobies is a word, not just one my dad made up SG! That's lovely. You don't hear those words anymore, it's such a shame. My nana was like Hilda Ogden with her 'murial', always mispronounced everything. It was hysterical!
Oh I do miss them all. Thanks for bringing back the memories, ladies.
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Re: Dryness driving me mad
« Reply #25 on: February 05, 2025, 09:02:50 AM »

"Earol" is recommended by our Audiologist.
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Re: Dryness driving me mad
« Reply #26 on: February 05, 2025, 01:10:35 PM »

Thanks for all the help ladies, I will definitely try Earol. I've literally just been home bargains so I'm annoyed right now I could have got it....hey ho next time I'll get it.
I've not heard bobies 🤷‍♀️
SundayGirl we would've said reet at yem 😂 you can see how the words get changed from area to area can't you 😊
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Re: Dryness driving me mad
« Reply #27 on: February 05, 2025, 02:57:51 PM »

Get it on line?

People didn't move far in the olden days so dialect was slow to evolve.  My Mum and our Norfolk Pru Man spoke plain Norfolk which was a muddle to my ears  ;D - which are treated every night with Nivea for dryness.
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Re: Dryness driving me mad
« Reply #28 on: February 05, 2025, 04:42:04 PM »

Amazon sell it.
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Re: Dryness driving me mad
« Reply #29 on: February 05, 2025, 04:50:45 PM »

Yep. 
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