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  1. cdmeggers

    Poll of all polls

    ... where is the deafened during childhood option? I was 2 when I went deaf (meningitis). Wore hearing aids since I was almost 3 years old (took my parents a while to find an audiologist that could properly test my hearing in late 1980's), stopped wearing left hearing aid around 4th grade cause...
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    Cochlear and bimodal hearing aid

    I've been happy with my AB Naida CIs. I did do bi-modal for a couple of years but that was before the AB Naida came out; I used AB's Harmony or Neptune processor on my left ear and a Phonak Naida HA on my right ear. I don't know too much about Cochlear's options, but I do know Sonova (the...
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    Choosing between ab & med-el

    AB and MedEl are really great. I have AB for myself and have been extremely happy, but I'm sure you will be happy with either choice. Make a list of pros and cons of each company, and see which one "wins". What do you really want the most? The long electrode from Med El, or the tech capabilities...
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    Newly implanted, just turned on 2 days ago

    yeah it'll sound annoying/odd at first, but it will get better over time. Just gotta let your brain make sense of the new auditory signals coming in. :) As for the when the dings turn into speech, who knows. It's different for everyone. For myself with my left ear, implanting a dead ear, I...
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    Confused about a ci or keeping hearing aids?

    Wrong. A cochlear implant can be turned off; it is NOT on 24/7. There are 2 parts to the implant, the internal part, and the external part. External part comes off and has a battery, battery can be disposed/changed or recharged (depending on what battery set up one chooses), etc. Please check...
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    Insurance Companies Suck

    DVR paid for my Phonak Supero hearing aid. Then 6 years later, Medicaid paid for the Phonak Naida (and would pay for a new one every 5 years).
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    Open Ear Fitting Or Ear Moulds, Which Is Best

    Hearing in noisy situations is always going to be tricky (for everyone, deaf or hearing). Audie can help you figure out solutions or even tweak a programming for your hearing aid to help; might or might not make a difference.
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    Idioms... Idioms... Idioms...

    break a leg by the skin on my teeth barking up the wrong tree keep your nose on the grindstone raining cats and dogs feeling down in the dump back to the drawing board hit the books Elvis has left the building hear it straight from the horse's mouth piece of cake jumping on the bandwagon kill...
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    For Those With A Ci

    Even when I was first activated, I was able to get through a good chunk of the day before the battery would go dead. Hope you and your audi can get this resolved!
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    For Those With A Ci

    It could also depend on the MAPs on your processor too (some programs will drain the battery more quickly). My biggest battery for the Naida, I get maybe around 18 hours? The 170's (the medium ones), anywhere from 12-14 hours. Do you have the power-saving mode (Hi-Res Optima) turned on for your...
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    How Do You Wake Up For Work?

    Sonic Boom is what usually works for me.
  12. cdmeggers

    Ci Rehab

    had to do some rehab with the left ear (dead ear for about 25 years), that took some time. Took a couple of weeks for the auditory nerves to wake up and some time for my brain to even make sense of anything. Things were much quicker with the right (heard stuff right off the bat at activation...
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    Flying

    sometimes I feel a little pressure in the ears due to the changes in altitudes, but no big. Much better with CIs.. with a hearing aid with the earmold, that hurt like hell haha.
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    New To Ci...what Is Normal?

    Sound should definitely be not cutting out. Check your cables, and if you have spares try swapping them out to see if that resolves the issue. My left one was cutting out randomly, not sure if it's cable or headpiece. Today, so far so good. Also, is there humidity where you live? sometimes...
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    Had My First Implant Yesterday

    I didn't have vertigo with the first CI. After the 2nd, I thought things were going fine.... was about a week or so after the surgery, I was sitting in math class taking a test when I had a sneeze attack (I have hayfever allergies) and bam! That was no fun. Still not sure how I managed to get...
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    Had My First Implant Yesterday

    Lucky! I swear my surgeon loves shaving heads... O_o Hope your recovery process is quick and easy! Vertigo is definitely no fun.
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    Suggestions Aids, Please

    BlueLove has a point too. 2 months, her brain is still adjusting and getting used to the CI signals. It takes time.
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    Suggestions Aids, Please

    Are you asking about a hearing aid for the non-implanted ear? If she doesn't have anything in the non-implanted ear, she could try a hearing aid in that ear to see if it helps. Can't really do a hearing aid in the implanted ear as the implant typically destroys whatever residual hearing there is...
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    Ci's For My Baby

    MAG, I would suggest you go onto facebook and find some CI groups. You would get much better input/feedback from folks there. Here is one page for parents of children with cochlear implants, which I think may be the best support/resource for you: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2339174952/ I...
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    Ci's For My Baby

    There have been infants who have been implanted under 12 months of age. 5 months of age is not that unusual... not common, but it does happen.
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