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Go big or go stainless? WWYD?
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Honestly, it’s been so long since I have worn them, I need to try a pair and see. I just don’t ever wear any because the times when I’d want to, the cord would be an issue.
I can tell you the older I’ve gotten, the more oddly sensitive I am to things. It’s very frustrating.
It would be a good way to verify BT sensitivity....
I always got headaches from wired or wireless AirPods....I guess its the way they sit in my ear.
I tried AirPod Pro's and voila! No more headaches.
Now the newer AirPods look to share the same ergonomics as the Pro's so those might work better for me.
And that doesn't happen with wired earphones? Does it happen around other Bluetooth accessories?
It’s much much much more likely (because “Bluetooth sensitivity” is not a thing) that the headaches are caused by the pressure of the earbuds in your ears.
Certainly a possibility, and I’m not trying to be argumentative, but who decides if bluetooth sensitivity is a thing for some people?
Electromagnetic hypersensitivity - Wikipedia
(bluetooth is a form of electromagnetic energy)
Electromagnetic hypersensitivity - Wikipedia
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(bluetooth is a form of electromagnetic energy)
Oh so the typical, “we have no evidence therefore it must be a psychiatric problem in anyone who experiences it.”
Like I said, IDK if that’s what I’m experiencing anyway, but I‘ve come to the realization that studies tend to err on the side of whoever is paying to fund said study, and also just because something has yet to be proven, doesn’t mean the person experiencing it is a nut.
At any rate, this isn’t really relative to the discussion at this point.
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Not "we have no evidence." It's "we did a study and have evidence people can't actually feel electromagnetic fields at the levels they are present in household devices."
You are not nuts in that something about bluetooth earphones cause you headaches. But when people asked you if non-bluetooth earphones bothered you, you weren't sure. First thing I would do is try a comparison with non-Bluetooth earphones before attributing your headache to Bluetooth sensitivity.
Well, I decided to just keep my aluminum for now. I love the stainless, but since it is something I’ll want to keep more than a year, I’m gonna hold off til the 8 comes out to buy it. Since everyone talked about what an incremental upgrade the 7 was, I think I’d be disappointed if I got the SS7 and then the 8 had some big improvements.
At this point though, it’s still sitting in a box in my drawer waiting to get sent back, and I’ve put it on a couple times admiring it. I really do love the look of it, and I still have some time before I have to send it back, so I’m still mulling it over a bit - just don’t want to take a chance of doing any minor damage to it in the meantime.
I understand what you’re saying, but they’ve said that about a lot of things over the years, and some people still have sensitivities to lower levels of things than others. Today I have 60 family members coming over for a Christmas gathering, so I can’t really look into any of the studies/links in detail.
I wasn’t sure about the other earphones because I haven’t worn them in years. Unfortunately, I haven’t had a chance to try them because when I did, I was busy and the cord kept getting caught, so they kept getting pulled out. I do plan to try it when I can sit still for a while, but I have been unable to do that. Yes I’m curious, and yes, it could certainly be the pods themselves and nothing else - I was just speculating that it’s interesting I have that issue AND the burning from the watch, and both are Bluetooth devices. Sure it could be two totally separate issues, and I am well aware of that.
And I have the burning from the watch, but no problems with Bluetooth earphones. So I'm inclined to think the two are separate issues. Of course, that's just two data points....
Like mentioned before, from a scientific standpoint bluetooth sensitivity (or electronic sensitivity in general) does not exist.
There is scientific methods to test cause and effect. For example one could think about comparing real Airpods with Bluetooth activity and Fake-Airpods without any electronics that look exactly the same.
Can you feel which one‘s have Bluetooth then? Nobody can, in fact.
There has been done numerous experiments like that with people claiming to be sensitive and never was it possible to show in experiments. You can give people who believe to have sensitivities fake devices (without electronics) and tell them they would have electronics and they feel pain; you can give them real devices with electronics and tell them they don‘t have electronics and they will not feel pain. Whether or not there is electronic signal does not have any effect in what people state.
In any case, it is a classic „correlation is not causation“.
Your uncomfort and pain is real; electronic sensitivity is just not the cause for it, it comes from somewhere else.
Of course at the end it is your decision what to think and what to believe, but personally I would not try to search for answers in the realm of superstition
There is scientific methods to test cause and effect. For example one could think about comparing real Airpods with Bluetooth activity and Fake-Airpods without any electronics that look exactly the same.
Can you feel which one‘s have Bluetooth then? Nobody can, in fact.
There has been done numerous experiments like that with people claiming to be sensitive and never was it possible to show in experiments. You can give people who believe to have sensitivities fake devices (without electronics) and tell them they would have electronics and they feel pain; you can give them real devices with electronics and tell them they don‘t have electronics and they will not feel pain. Whether or not there is electronic signal does not have any effect in what people state.
In any case, it is a classic „correlation is not causation“.
Your uncomfort and pain is real; electronic sensitivity is just not the cause for it, it comes from somewhere else.
Of course at the end it is your decision what to think and what to believe, but personally I would not try to search for answers in the realm of superstition