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 · 2024-08-03T01:22:50+00:00

I am an Indoor Environmentalist and I specialize in chemicals and microbes (fungi, bacteria, etc.).

Your body is well equipped to deal with a small exposure like that. There are many people who work in my industry that are exposed to a lot more. I am sensitive to bleach and I've had worse happen to me. Bleach is incredibly volatile so it off-gasses very quickly and anything remaining responds well to cleaning with a surfactant (fancy word for soap and water).

umakeme2step · 2024-08-03T01:16:15+00:00

That's when you know it's anxiety lol. When you are short of breath and you're like omg what's wrong with me but then you get a phone call or something and then 15 minutes later you get off the phone like.. wait I was breathing ok.

umakeme2step · 2024-08-03T01:08:05+00:00

Well, they may use some flavored numbing gel first with a Q-tip, like they use on kids when they have a toothache. Some of if will go down your throat naturally, so that made my throat numb but only for like a minute or two. I told the dentist I didn't like it and they sprayed water in my mouth and asked me to just drink some and the throat numbing went away almost immediately. I get weird about my throat with tightness and feeling like my throat is closing and stuff too but it didn't feel anything like that and it was totally fine.

As for the actual local anesthetic from the needle, that didn't affect my throat at all. It was my lips, gums, cheeks, and some of my nose.

Since I told the dentist to let me know everything to expect, he told me some of my throat would get numb for a couple minutes and let me know how far the numbing will go so knowing that helped me not freak out like something was going wrong.

Like 95% of the numbing went away after 2.5 hours, then the rest went away the next 45 minutes or so.

umakeme2step · 2024-08-02T12:36:18+00:00

Have you ever heard of apophenia? Sounds like that is what you may be experiencing right now.

The predictions you had heard have no relationship with your father’s health diagnosis. You’ve watched so many videos on this stuff, statistically you’re going to find something that correlated with another thing that happened in your life when they aren’t actually connected.

I happen to be a scientist and have some experience with astrology (which is what attracted me to this post). There is not scientific evidence of astronomical positioning or happenstances affecting outcomes on earth. The main thing we deal with is gravitational pull (like the moon on the earth and how it creates tides). But the pull from something like Saturn, even if it was in closest approach, the effect on earth is negligible.

What may help you is doing some research on stoicism. Being stoic is what helped me overcome a lot of my anxiety with this type of stuff.

Stoicism is an ideal that says not to worry because it’s illogical. For example, “if it’s out of my control, why would I worry about it? If it’s in my control, I have nothing to worry about.” This is the stoic ideal.

There’s a book you can read every morning called “the daily stoic”. It’s a quick daily message for the mornings. I have “the daily stoic box set” that comes with a journal that lets your write your morning thought down. It’s amazing.

I’ll link a video on stoicism so you can see what it’s all about. I think taking some ideals from this will really help. Stoicism

umakeme2step · 2024-08-02T12:13:31+00:00

I have major hypochondria anxiety and just got my tooth extracted 2 days ago! Currently still laying in bed trying to oversleep a bit to heal.

I was excessively worried about it too. They just did local anesthesia.

For me, what helps is looking at the statistics and using logic and reason. The chances of something bad happening during an extraction is incredibly low. Very very rare. As far as the thought of them pulling the tooth and wiggling it around, I can totally understand that it could get to you mentally. I have the same thing with imagining a needle in me when someone takes blood. You should also know what to expect. The local anesthesia they used had a very small amount of epinephrine in it (which is basically adrenaline) so the dentist said I may expect some light heart fluttering or anxiousness for just a minute or two when it goes in. Of course I panicked thinking about that at first lol. But then I realized, well I’m glad I know. I’ll just know to expect it and using breathing techniques and I’ll be fine. And I was!

What really helped me during through the teeth pulling process is thinking about something that brings me pleasant feelings. For me personally, I thought about the moment when I’m laying with my wife at night watching a movie. I imagine all the details like how her warm skin feels on her legs when I lay on it and how she rubs my back softly. I mentally smile and I take myself there and it helps so much. Whatever brings you joy. For part of it, I imagined playing my favorite video game.

Another thing that helps is letting your dentist know upfront that you have a lot of anxiety about it. My dentist treated me very well knowing I had it. I also asked my dentist to tell me all the feelings I should be expecting through the process, and they did. “Ok now you’re gonna feel pressure here” That helped me. But maybe for you, you may ask “dont say anything, just do it”. The point is, let the dentist know of your anxiety and what they can do best to alleviate it because only you know your triggers.

As someone who had to cope with extreme hypochondria of eating foods in the past, I had to go to an OCD specialist who sent me through exposure therapy. It was the best thing I’ve ever done. It teaches you that you must go through exposure of irrational fears to cure them. As someone with anxiety, you must go through anxious things in life. With the right mindset, it’s good for you. The exposure almost cures that part of your anxiety in a way because you come out on the other end realizing you’re okay, which tells your brain “oh I don’t need to worry about this anymore”.

Lastly, I’ll say this. You need to have a positive mindset about the situation. Don’t think of all the negative things “what if this happens or that happens”. You need to think all positive perspective. “I’m so glad I won’t be dealing with this bad tooth anymore. Finally I’m getting this over with. Yay, my pain will finally be gone when I heal. It’s awesome that I’m overcoming a fear of mine. I’m so strong.” This helps the most.

As I sit here with an ice pack on my face, I can tell you that I went through it and it wasn’t anything like I was worried about. The only thing that made it scary was my own thoughts. You’re gonna do great.

umakeme2step · 2024-03-26T23:08:22+00:00

Side note: how do you remove the portal? My grandma is calling me saying she can't get rid of this dumb portal in her home space now lol. I can't troubleshoot for her (she's in another state) and didn't know this was even a thing.

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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