Well, I've been rinsing them and rinsing them and they are still itching like crazy. I have noticed a lot of that ear wax there when I feel they are wet inside and I use a Q-tip to get it out. About once a week. But the itching has spread now to the outer folds of my ears and it feels like it's getting bitten there and there is shedding of chunks of stuff coming off the ear itself.