Alex Matyjasek
Member
What a lot of nonsense. Let's just complain and be miserable. Forget about telling jokes and try to chear things up.
Do You Wear Hearing Protection When Cutting Your Nails?
- Thread starter Eric N
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- Aug 14, 2013
- 2,455
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- Resolved since 2016
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- Unknown (medication, head injury)
Given the degree of your senility, the degree of your inferiority complex, as well as your apocalyptic display of self-deceit, the very last thing you should be engaging in is counseling others. If you really have so little to attend to that you have time to counsel others, why not come out of that medical retirement of yours – that would only be fair to the British taxpayers that you are not unduly freewheeling since you are so habituated. Right...? So go get a job, lazy Joe...
Last but not least: if you are checking in on a tinnitus forum on a daily basis, and at all hours of the day, while writing lengthy posts, you are definitely not habituated. Let's just be clear about that. So... maybe as an upcoming New Year's resolution, it might be a good time to shelve your Emperor's New Clothes act – don't you think???
I think it's purely just trying to make light get of a very negative situation Michael... a welcomed 'lol' I'd say.....
Alex Matyjasek
Member
doude chillllllllll. laughter is good medicine and farts are universally funny. if you don't think farts are funny then you aren't human.
There is a time and a place for everything and for like minded individuals that like this sort of uncouth behaviour and call it satire. I don't.
- Oct 14, 2016
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- All my life, but got worse 2016
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- Noise induced / Concert
Red
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You're a bit old fashioned, Michael. I am glad that TT is open for everyone as tinnitus certainly doesn't discriminate based on class or any other demographic.
You may see it as crass and rude, this type of humor, but others might see your own behavior as uptight and mirthless.
I have to agree with @Vicki14 , life would be boring if we were all the same. It's important we make enough space for each other on this forum.
@Red
Normally I wouldn't respond to such a quote, as I was not corresponding with you and see it as bad manners, that you have intervened with your retort. Nevertheless I will reply on this occasion.
If you regard having decency and respect for oneself and others as being old fashioned, then it's no wonder some people in society today behave the way they do. Having no respect for themselves or fellow human beings, and doing exactly as they want regardless of the consequences.
Very interesting indeed and I shall leave it at that.
Goodbye.
Michael
- May 29, 2018
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- 10/2017
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- Neck/stress
I suppose life would be dull Michael if we were all designed the same.....
We can't all be old farts.
Emperor-Drax
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- Jun 14, 2018
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- 10/06/2018
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- Loud bang on metal with a mallet
It's funny but I thought about it once.
But then.. "Wait.. what the hell am I thinking about, calm down" 
ManagerDid you actually measure it?...
I can imagine that the clicks as you clip your nails can get loud. But I don't think it would aggravate your tinnitus.
It is an interesting question though. Because when I was in my teens I clearly remember hearing what sounded like pulling a string... a vibratory sensation in my ears for each time I pressed down on the nail clipper to cut my nails.
I knew nothing about hearing or tinnitus at the time, and I certainly did not have tinnitus. Now that I do know a few things about each, I am pretty sure that it was my tensor tympani muscle activating to dampen the sound energy from the clipper.
So yeah... the clicks when you clip your nails can get loud, I'm pretty sure they do. I never made any measure of it, but I might just go do that after seeing this question.
However it's most definitely not something that would damage your hearing, so you should be safe without ear muffs.
Also, I don't think it would aggravate your tinnitus. I now have tinnitus and I still clip my nails the same way, using the same tools as before, and I don't notice any change in tinnitus loudness or intrusiveness simply by clipping my nails.
- Feb 17, 2017
- 10,400
- Tinnitus Since
- February, 2017
- Cause of Tinnitus
- Acoustic Trauma
One can get a serious T spike even when one's hearing doesn't get damaged. So there's that.
Point taken! The answer highly depends on what the question is, as always.
"Do You Wear Hearing Protection When Cutting Your Nails?"
My answer is No, I don't.
Can clipping your nails damage your hearing?...
My answer is No, it cannot. (With reservation for clipping your nails with power tools.)
Can clipping your nails cause a spike in tinnitus?
My answer is No, it cannot.
I used to get spikes by not doing anything in particular, just by sitting on a chair in a quite room and reading a book. There was no obvious damage or loud noise that could have triggered it.
Why would someone want to use hearing protection when cutting their nails?
If they fear that it may a) cause hearing damage, or b) cause a spike in their tinnitus. If none of these are true, then there is no reason to wear hearing protection when clipping ones nails.
Can clipping your nails activate the tensor tympani muscle in your ear?
My experience tells me Yes, it can. And this was before I ever really knew what hyperacusis or tinnitus was.
So I think it's a reasonable question to ask about hearing protection when clipping ones nails if you have either one of these conditions. My experience tells me that I most likely developed some form of hyperacusis before I developed tinnitus. My middle ear muscles acting all up was the very first sign that something was wrong, and I didn't get chronic tinnitus until a few weeks later.
@Eric N as everyone's experience is different, there is only one way to know for sure if clipping your nails without hearing protection is going to aggravate your tinnitus. I don't mean to promote any brand, but "just do it". Have you actually done it? And you measured the sound level? And it aggravated your tinnitus? Or are you just assuming it will?... I still wonder how you know it's 100 dB.
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