HI Everyone
I had something crazy happen to me this weekend that I have a hard time understanding or accepting.
As luck has it over the weekend I had another problem, another acoustic trauma.
I was sitting in my house and my next door neighbor decided to cut his entire lawn with a gas powered weed wacker. She did that for about little over an hour on and off, I guess stopping to refuel and moving around to different parts of the house and driveway. I was so deep into a movie with my girlfriend that I was just not paying attention, and did not notice the high pitched sound of the weed wacker outside at first.
But later that afternoon I got a very bad spike and my tinnitus went through the roof. You would think that a person is safe in his own home from something like this, but it seems that I was not. Even with all of my double pane windows and heavy cloth blinds closed I guess that high pitched noise from the weed wacker just went right through it and nailed my ears.
So I have been suffering the past 3 days with increased tinnitus. It started on sat after noon around 12, and here it is today Tues and I'm a little better, but not back to my baseline again yet.
It's really freaking me out. I'm very mad and frustrated at myself for not using in my ear plugs or gun muffs to protect myself, but who would have thought that their would be any danger inside of my own home ?
I did measure it on my dB meter on my phone and it seemed to be around 58 dB. I have no idea how accurate that a cell phone's dB meter is.
My neighbors house and driveway are about 30 to 50 feet away from my house and driveway depending where they are using the weed wacker or where I was in the house I happened to be in the front room. I did notice that I could hear the movie over the sound of the weed wacker it wasn't until I paid attention that I realized how loud the sound from the weed wacker was.
I was wondering, how many dB reduction there is when the distance is increased from the source to me? I could not find any kind of chart on the Internet.
I mean how loud could it have been inside my house, how many dB? It seems that no one seems to know that.
I have been living next to this neighbor for 4 years and I never had a problem from her weed wacker before, but then again, she has never tried to cut most of her yard with it before or ran it so long either. In the past when ever I hear her using the weed wacker, I generally would just go to my office until she was done.
When I woke up this morning I was better, my tinnitus was down some, for me that's a good sign that I'm heading towards recovery.
This just goes to show how we are never free of hurting our ears, not even in our own homes. I still don't believe this even happened.
If anyone has had a similar experience I would be very interested to hear about it, and or their outcome.
Sorry for the long message, I was just thinking out loud, thank you taking the time to read it.
Thank You
Louie
Quietatnight
I had something crazy happen to me this weekend that I have a hard time understanding or accepting.
As luck has it over the weekend I had another problem, another acoustic trauma.
I was sitting in my house and my next door neighbor decided to cut his entire lawn with a gas powered weed wacker. She did that for about little over an hour on and off, I guess stopping to refuel and moving around to different parts of the house and driveway. I was so deep into a movie with my girlfriend that I was just not paying attention, and did not notice the high pitched sound of the weed wacker outside at first.
But later that afternoon I got a very bad spike and my tinnitus went through the roof. You would think that a person is safe in his own home from something like this, but it seems that I was not. Even with all of my double pane windows and heavy cloth blinds closed I guess that high pitched noise from the weed wacker just went right through it and nailed my ears.
So I have been suffering the past 3 days with increased tinnitus. It started on sat after noon around 12, and here it is today Tues and I'm a little better, but not back to my baseline again yet.
It's really freaking me out. I'm very mad and frustrated at myself for not using in my ear plugs or gun muffs to protect myself, but who would have thought that their would be any danger inside of my own home ?
I did measure it on my dB meter on my phone and it seemed to be around 58 dB. I have no idea how accurate that a cell phone's dB meter is.
My neighbors house and driveway are about 30 to 50 feet away from my house and driveway depending where they are using the weed wacker or where I was in the house I happened to be in the front room. I did notice that I could hear the movie over the sound of the weed wacker it wasn't until I paid attention that I realized how loud the sound from the weed wacker was.
I was wondering, how many dB reduction there is when the distance is increased from the source to me? I could not find any kind of chart on the Internet.
I mean how loud could it have been inside my house, how many dB? It seems that no one seems to know that.
I have been living next to this neighbor for 4 years and I never had a problem from her weed wacker before, but then again, she has never tried to cut most of her yard with it before or ran it so long either. In the past when ever I hear her using the weed wacker, I generally would just go to my office until she was done.
When I woke up this morning I was better, my tinnitus was down some, for me that's a good sign that I'm heading towards recovery.
This just goes to show how we are never free of hurting our ears, not even in our own homes. I still don't believe this even happened.
If anyone has had a similar experience I would be very interested to hear about it, and or their outcome.
Sorry for the long message, I was just thinking out loud, thank you taking the time to read it.
Thank You
Louie
Quietatnight
Member
