Headphones are a good thing in my life right now for a couple reasons.
One of the few hobbies I can still work on is making my own headphones and working on improving existing headphones that use Planar Megnetic driver technology, which I wont bore you with unless someone is interested. Thing is, this tech uses huge magnets and in reading about CFS patients heightened sensitivity to EMF, I'm feeling hesitant about it. But I've put a lot of energy into it already and it would be kind of a shame to have to lose another opportunity and hobby because of what may be paranoia. (even if it is healthy paranoia considering the unknown nature of this illness)
There's also very loud construction next door, which has been going on for the last 9 months. I thought it was nearing completion soon, but 2 more houses were just torn down close by and there will be banging and machining away all summer again. The only way to be outside in the beautiful garden I'm lucky to have here is to use headphones.
So I'm just curious to know if anyone has any thoughts, opinions or experiences around this. It seems like maybe I am already exposed to more EMF than even these magnet heavy headphones could create in microwaves and other things all around me. So maybe cutting them out wouldn't do any good except limit my life further but I don't know... I would just try it and see what happens, but even 2 weeks of not being able to go outside is difficult, and there's so many factors with CFS, it's impossible to really know for sure what is causing what.
This goes to show the kinds of stuff we have to worry about without any real medical understanding or advice. I just try to avoid anything that could be harmful figuring it's one of the few things I have the power to do, and it can't usually hurt.
One of the few hobbies I can still work on is making my own headphones and working on improving existing headphones that use Planar Megnetic driver technology, which I wont bore you with unless someone is interested. Thing is, this tech uses huge magnets and in reading about CFS patients heightened sensitivity to EMF, I'm feeling hesitant about it. But I've put a lot of energy into it already and it would be kind of a shame to have to lose another opportunity and hobby because of what may be paranoia. (even if it is healthy paranoia considering the unknown nature of this illness)
There's also very loud construction next door, which has been going on for the last 9 months. I thought it was nearing completion soon, but 2 more houses were just torn down close by and there will be banging and machining away all summer again. The only way to be outside in the beautiful garden I'm lucky to have here is to use headphones.
So I'm just curious to know if anyone has any thoughts, opinions or experiences around this. It seems like maybe I am already exposed to more EMF than even these magnet heavy headphones could create in microwaves and other things all around me. So maybe cutting them out wouldn't do any good except limit my life further but I don't know... I would just try it and see what happens, but even 2 weeks of not being able to go outside is difficult, and there's so many factors with CFS, it's impossible to really know for sure what is causing what.
This goes to show the kinds of stuff we have to worry about without any real medical understanding or advice. I just try to avoid anything that could be harmful figuring it's one of the few things I have the power to do, and it can't usually hurt.