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Hello, I understand that it is devastating to hear that your child has autism, in plus of his deafness. Forgive my dumb questions, but have you been to the audiologist first to see if his HA are working as it should ? What do the ENT doc say ? If your child has another issue, it may not...

That makes sense, although I didn't think about it first. But if I don't say stupidities, ADHD people may also be hypersensitive. So which is the chicken, which is the egg ? I don't have the slightest idea.... I have always been emotionally hypersensitive : if I'm please, I'll be overly...

BAHA has no mapping, contrary to CI. It works on the same principle as dental implant : you put a screw inside the bone, not very deep, and you clip the processor like a velcro on clothes. No mapping, and the surgery is less than 1 hour. But you need to have a good Primary Care Doctor, as you...

Cochlear's website is full of information about BAHA. But from a very personal experience, more benefit than negative. The only negative is that pain in the screw has to be assessed very quickly if persisting after 12-24 hours. I have a better stereo hearing and I can even locate sounds in...

In France, we don't put it on the driving licence sadly :( But yeah, I am a proud organ donor : my family knows that in case I may die, I want to give everything I can. At least, I won't be dead for nothing, and other people may live instead of surviving. I remember of Sabrina, a friend...

I suffer from ADHD as well as my unilateral deafness. For my psychiatrist and my GP, this association of diagnosis is a very atypical one. And to add some more difficulties for them, I sometimes don't react at all on how does a doctor may expect from an ADHD (I have the hyperactive type...

I take Ritalin, which normally rises blood pressure. But funnily though, my BP dropped : from 120/70 it dropped to 110/70 (sometimes, while under a great deal of stress, pressure, overload work (legal battle), it drops to even 100/70). When I saw the cardiologist for suspected pericarditis...

I wish I would be able to go to Australia !! Just in order to learn aspects of a new culture !! I was terribly busy this year : a legal battle for my driving licence which, thanks Godness, goes ahead better than thought :) But boy, I had to work so hard this year that I may deserve some...

Hello, This video achieved to convince me that even when we say that a child is lost because intellectually disabled, he can do things that most won't even imagine. As soon as I decided I will adopt in the future, I also think about adopting a child with a disability. Even a child we would...

Hello, The question is in the title ! ;) Mine is : "Never give up !" Because I hate giving up something : I like to finish what I start, and I hate when I have to give up....

Right in the theory :) But in the practice, Ritalin makes food really disgusting, even the food you love most :( Too bad, because without Ritalin, I don't have this problem :( (for example, I love gratin dauphinois, which is a gratin of potatoes cooked in the cream. I only hate the taste...

Thanks for your replies. Kristina, this is the problem : I feel full very quickly, two mouthfuls and that's enough for me ! I have to force myself to eat some more, which is quite annoying....

Hi Chery, We can't be positive all the time. I know I say something very obvious, but remember this when your dad is negative. After, he'll be back to positive. I can imagine it's hard for you to deal with. But remember that it's normal : he is sometimes very frustrated and wants things...

Hello, On Monday, I was to my GP for the follow up between the appointments to my psychiatrist at hospital. She called me to order because I'm starting back losing weight (and as soon as I lose 2 kilos, so more or less 1lb, it's obvious : last time I lost "only" 4 kilos, the jurist I was...

I also like my GP because she accepts me with all my atypicity. Atypicity because first of all, two diagnoses of Single Sided Deafness and ADHD (a sensorial disability and a learning disability is not a very often seen association of diagnoses : my GP told me it, my ENT doc told me it and my...

I don't think it's only a matter of cultural difference. The matter is I have been scolded from her because I became too thin without any medical reason (there was no illness which explained that I could become too thin), and I already knew that I was absolutely wrong to do what I did (I...

I didn't know that in English, GP can have more than one meaning !! :O French is my mother tongue, and in French, SNCF has only one meaning (it's the French train society). I thought it was the same for GP in English :Oops:

Yep, GP = General Practitioner :) CJB, I accept being scolded by her because : - she does it only when there is a very very good reason : you've done something you don't have to do and you know it's harmful for your health - it's the last solution she uses, when other solutions are not...

Hello, I thought to ask you to describe your relationship with your GP. A man or a woman ? How old ? How do you feel with him/her ? Which style of his practice ? Here I am, trying to have a start ;) My GP is a lady, in her 50'es. I feel very confident with her, and as she told me, she...

Hi, Back after a couple of months, and I am thrilled : I caught nearly all the weight loss, so everything is back to normal :) I also stay stable with my healthy weight :) So I stopped being sick all the time, I'm not short of breath any more and I have no need to wear a sweat-shirt or even a...