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Who told you this? You don't have to do anything at all when it comes to flying and going through airports.

Actually, it is you that is in the wrong forum. You cannot advise someone you don't know anything about to "just accept it." This is a deaf forum, not a Deaf forum. That means you are going to see posts from a variety of people. There is no one "deaf experience" and there is no one solution...

I'm not sure I'd put much stock into the surgeon. His specialty is installing the thing, not programming it or testing it. Your tinnitus is likely roaring because you really haven't been following proper programming. This is where someone should be 2 weeks later, not 2 years later. Your...

What do you know about the person you are advising that they would be happier if they just accept it? Do you go around advising people who have lost the use of limbs that they should just accept it and go without mobility? No wheel chairs or prosthetics. That would be denying who they are...

What do you know about the person are attempting to advise that hearing is not worth it? By the way, I haven't heard of anyone on Medicare paying anything like 20,000 dollars. They usually get the entire thing covered. My out of pocket was $2.000 with my insurance.

I am unilateral, but that is how I grew up. You should absolutely pursue going bilateral. The vast majority who have taken that path absolutely love it and it only made it that much better. Between getting your current implant mapped further and your other ear implanted, you should...

Absolutely. Any source that attempts to describe it as a mindset should be laughed at and ignored. Tinnitus has been lifelong for me. I have never known complete silence. Normally, it's a low level "hum" of some sort that I can easily ignore. Other times it's been ringing to outright...

Without going back and examining it, what jumped out at me was the ages of the focus group. If you are going to implant a child that late... 2 years or later and they've been severe/profound all along, you absolutely must ensure a full tool kit approach is taken because they are not likely to...

Yup. The CI is not the cause, the lack of response to the needs of each child is the issue.

I'd feel different if the article writer did their job as a reporter and if the person posting the article, which I read last week, understood it.

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Really get on the ball with that. Special circumstances or not. .... 2 total mapping appointments is nowhere near sufficient to get you where it should be. You could be missing out on much better hearing. It doesn't sound right to be doing booth testing on the second appointment. That is...

I just read this. You can't possibly be saying you've only had one mapping in the 2 years you've had your CI? Are you saying you were activated and that was it? You should have had at least 6 mappings by now, each improving the quality of your hearing. Hope you get it figured out.

For that idea of yours to be remotely the same, the strap on dildo would need to be wired to her body internally and stimulate the appropriate nerve endings to illicit an orgasmic response much in the same manner if she had an actual penis, not just rub her clit. Your version basically...

No, I am not. Keep in mind that the goal with an implant is to replace the electrical signals that would normally be delivered via hair cells. Electrical signals are a normal function in the delivery of hearing. Your answer to whether neural pathways regenerate with hair cell restoration...

Incorrect. The hair cells are only one part of the equation. This is one major factor in the variation of results with implants. The longer a profoundly deaf child is deprived of hearing, the worse the outcome. The neural pathways are being developed during the early years and will not...

A cure for existing prelingually deafened kids will be a lot more complicated to impossible. A child receiving early intervention to allow normal development of the neural pathways and hearing nerve will be no different from their hearing peers and be hearing.

Because of fears and misconceptions, everyone looking into it is going to think they want the Hybrid. Only a doctor/audiologist would recommend it and only a select few will qualify. Most who get CIs have progressive loss across all frequencies and want the entire array implanted whether they...

I take that as being inflexible and stubborn in opinion on the topic, but it goes both ways. Too many of the two sides of the same coin frequent this forum.

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