The Ear Blocking Issue

Every now and then, every few months, the ear would kind of get blocked again. And I was trying all sorts of things to try and unblock it. So after like five days of being in quite a lot of pain with this earache, I went and booked an emergency appointment at  an ear wax cleaning place. Immediately after having my ears cleaned, the earache had gone, the pain in my jaw was gone. This issue of having this blocked ear intermittently completely resolved itself. A big part of me was kicking myself. Why did I not let this looked at sooner? Why was I putting up with this issue for so long?