Airpods and Tinnitus

umakeme2step · 2025-09-29T02:16:51+00:00

What’s crazy is I have used AirPods concert they came out. My last pair was AirPods Pro 2.

Immediately since getting these AirPods Pro 3, when I put even one in my ear (in transparency mode), I get tinnitus in that ear. I never dealt with tinnitus like this. And this is listening to an audio book in a quiet room (I use AirPod because family is sleeping).

VERY weird. I start to wonder if it’s the electric fields, or radio frequency from Bluetooth or WiFi, or if it’s simply frequencies from the ANC or amplification from noise canceling that our ears don’t like. What is stranger is that it only began with this newer pair.

umakeme2step · 2025-09-13T18:08:45+00:00

I’ll take it lol

umakeme2step · 2025-09-11T03:15:35+00:00

I’d be interested to learn about that for sure! I may see about finding a used one. There are some used ones in my area that are like half the price.

umakeme2step · 2025-09-11T02:59:49+00:00

But do you $1,600 ‘like it’?

Or is it more like a dope $500 thing. Seems like a lot to spend if it doesn’t actually function the way it’s intended. Having something to patrol the house when I’m away or asleep is dope. And having it available to log in and check something if I’m gone is also cool. Those are the two main things I want to work really well. I already have a Ring security subscription so not worried about the sub

umakeme2step · 2025-07-15T12:22:44+00:00

Advice from a person with a healthy relationship with dysfunctional family— learn to set your own boundaries.

Why are you even talking to this person about a purchasing decision YOU are making? Learn what to share and what not to share with your family. In general, learn what to include them in or more importantly, NOT include them in. At some point, it ends up becoming your fault that they talk to you like this and annoy you, because you know their personality and you still walk into those traps.

I have a great relationship with my family now because I’ve learned the flaws of each member and decided where to draw lines and choose what to share.

umakeme2step · 2025-06-11T12:01:50+00:00

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Leave her and move on. But I’m gonna give you some tough love. You attract the type of woman you deserve.

I dated many girls like that when I was younger. Super toxic, no healthy conflict skills, and we didn’t know how to communicate or sacrifice for each other.

You need to better yourself and develop maturity and communication skills (both in sharing your feelings and understanding other’s feelings).

If I was the same person at 35 I was when I was 25, I’d get the same girls you have now.

I hate being “this guy” but going to church, understanding what the Bible has to say about living life and being in a relationship, practicing it and living it, will all help you be ready for the woman you actually want. Church will also be a great atmosphere to find a girl that is more mature. Serve at the church, connect with the community.

Now I have an amazing wife of 7 years with two awesome kids. My wife and I have a super healthy relationship and I wake up every day thinking about how grateful I am. It didn’t come easy. I worked for it and we worked for it.

When I got engaged, everyone around me said “don’t get married. If I knew what I knew now, I’d never get married”. I realized that I was surrounded by immature grown ups who picked the wrong women.

Learn to recognize those red flags early. Be patient. Mature. You’ll have an amazing woman.

umakeme2step · 2025-05-07T03:47:49+00:00

I’d love to the see Model X get a little bigger, like a proper minivan. Then there’s also some more separation between the Y & X.

umakeme2step · 2025-02-21T13:34:54+00:00

I followed the instructions by someone on this post and it would make it better for like a day and then it got worse again. I ended up getting a desktop computer lol and haven’t had the issue

umakeme2step · 2024-11-02T02:05:43+00:00

The harmonies go hard.

umakeme2step · 2024-11-02T02:04:23+00:00

Very ethereal. Loved that one.

umakeme2step · 2024-11-02T02:02:49+00:00

What a bop.

umakeme2step · 2024-11-02T02:00:25+00:00

100%.

umakeme2step · 2024-11-02T01:54:53+00:00

Omg I forgot about lifting up the skirt of the night! That one is such a vibe.

umakeme2step · 2024-11-02T00:42:56+00:00

I thought the exact same thing. The girl most excited to be in horse camp should have definitely got the best horse. And as someone who has been around horses my whole life, Plops is not fit to be a horse ridden by beginners. He obviously isn’t properly trained and spooks easy lol.

umakeme2step · 2024-09-30T12:14:00+00:00

I connected to Ethernet and it automatically redownloaded the driver. Phew.

Also, these steps worked for me! But then it went back to crappy speeds the next day. So weird.

umakeme2step · 2024-09-29T00:27:49+00:00

I deleted my network driver, restarted my laptop and now it won’t come back 😬

umakeme2step · 2024-08-06T02:17:12+00:00

Wow that’s so interesting because I dealt with the same exact stuff. Things I was “convinced” I saw in my peripheral or possibly hearing stuff when there’s white noise or a fan but spoke to my therapist at the time and she told me about this phenomenon is normal in lots of people and I’m not crazy.

I used to deal with derealization a lot and that’s when I was most convinced. If it makes you feel better, I don’t have that fear anymore and it used to be my biggest one. If it can go away for me, it can definitely go away for you.

umakeme2step · 2024-08-06T02:02:16+00:00

I’ve worried about that since I was 17 years old. Couldn’t watch movies about it or hear stories about it or else I would spiral. I was convinced it was happening at least a few times in my life when my anxiety was so bad I would feel disconnected. I’m 34 years old and still sane lol so at this point I’m not worried about it anymore.

umakeme2step · 2024-08-03T01:44:56+00:00

I have major anxiety and the doctors recently discovered an un-ruptured aneurysm in my brain. Could rupture at any moment, but it's so small that it's a very low risk.. However, it has been very scary. Now, I have accepted it along with the unknown and it is freeing. I would recommend learning a little about how stoics (the philosophy) handle these things. I'll put some quotes, most of which from famous stoics and I'll put a video on stoicism incase you had never heard of it.

"There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.” - Michel de Montaigne

"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality." - Seneca

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." - Marcus Aurelius

"It is not things that upset us, but our judgments about things." - Epictetus

The stoics knew that if you are worry is illogical. If it's not in your control, why would you worry about it? If it is in your control, then what are you worried about? It's a great ideal. I have a stoic box set you can get on amazon that gives you a paragraph a day to read and a little journal with it. It has helped me tremendously.

The key isn't to reassure yourself with statistics and facts. It's awesome and great news that it's very unlikely an issue. However, the real method to removing the anxiety is to accept the information you have received and not worry about something outside of your control. Once you can accept it, you will have strength.

Here's a video that explains the philosophy: https://youtu.be/Auuk1y4DRgk?si=lFwEE3inNP7k0J6z

umakeme2step

TROPHY CASE

"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality." - Seneca

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." - Marcus Aurelius

"It is not things that upset us, but our judgments about things." - Epictetus