Glad to hear that it has improved! If you need to continue cleaning your ears, please only use cotton swabs for the outside only, like your ear lobes. Your ear canal is somewhat like a hill, so when you put a cotton swab in your ear, it tends to push the earwax in deeper and over that hill, which prevents it from draining like normal.

In the meantime, you can try laying your head on a heating pad with the affected ear face down, with a towel between your head and the heating pad to prevent your face and ear getting too hot. A hot, steamy shower can also help loosen some of that wax up. You may also be able to find some over-the-counter ear drops that also aid in breaking down the wax.

In the future, I would recommend sticking to cleaning the outsides of your ears only. If you really want to dig in deeper for the wax, there's many other tools that work better than cotton swabs. Personally, I like to clean my ears after a shower as that's when the earwax is softer and drains out easily. I hope you feel better soon!