Just syringed my ears with water and hydrogen peroxide, you should see the gunk of wax that came out. I took a picture of it too but not sure if anyone would want to see because yuck.

I remember going to the local clinic as a kid and after trying the usual stuff they had to use this huge irrigation pump thing to get the wax out, mfer was the size and approximate color (stripes and all) of a bumblebee.

Also this is not medical advice yadda yadda yadda, but after getting tired of those annual visits I started just doing the irrigation myself. I used to do the peroxide thing, but what I've landed on is just doing it at the tail end of a hot shower once I've washed my ears and the wax has naturally softened up from the steam. I use a syringe I got from the drugstore that's designed specifically for this which has a soft lobed tip that allows water to flow back out even as you're irrigating, which makes things much more effective and comfortable. Two syringe-fulls of warm water in each ear does the trick (and really, the second one is more for confirmation).

I kept up the habit of using one of those little kidney dishes to catch the outflow from before I started doing it in the shower. It's not strictly necessary if you're not squicked out by having some of it splash on your body (you are in the shower, after all), but it doubles as a reservoir to fill the syringe from and also lets you more closely monitor how much wax is coming out so you don't overdo it. You don't want to be blasting your eardrum with water unnecessarily, and this is not something I do weekly or anything--just as needed, whenever I feel my canals start to become occluded. Maybe once every three months or so? Sure beats ending up half-deaf with a bumblebee in your ear.