Are you wearing HA, CI or never?

[dreama]

Thank y'all for posts with poll about yourself. Hearing aids is still leading over CI. I am definitely CI will be lead over HA in future. Who know.

That's unlikely to happen. First of all it's rare for someone not to have uesful hearing.
secondly, not all people without useful hearing will be able to use a CI.

While some people who have some useful hearing are attracted to getting CI's I don't think it's advisable since success with CI varies from being HOH to just hearing environmental noises. If you are successfully using a HA there is no need to get a CI.

 

[Pinky]

That's unlikely to happen. First of all it's rare for someone not to have uesful hearing.
secondly, not all people without useful hearing will be able to use a CI.

While some people who have some useful hearing are attracted to getting CI's I don't think it's advisable since success with CI varies from being HOH to just hearing environmental noises. If you are successfully using a HA there is no need to get a CI.

Yes, That's true. It depend on serve to profound deaf can get CI. If hard of hearing still can have HA not CI. HA is not helping me enough. I can't hear anything anymore. I has 110db in both ears. I will get CI.

 

[Hear Again]

If you are successfully using a HA there is no need to get a CI.

That's exactly why CI centers have strict criteria when it comes to CI candidacy. A CI candidate cannot understand more than 40% of words or sentences in the best aided conditions.

Also, the ratio between HA users and CI users will always be favored to the former since there are a much greater number of people who use hearing aids compared to those who use CIs.

However, once technologies such as the hybrid CI are used by more people, that may change.

 

[Hear Again]

Yes, That's true. It depend on serve to profound deaf can get CI. If hard of hearing still can have HA not CI. HA is not helping me enough. I can't hear anything anymore. I has 110db in both ears. I will get CI.

Pinky,

Just curious...when are you going for your CI evaluation? I wish you all the best with your CI journey.

 

[Pinky]

Pinky,

Just curious...when are you going for your CI evaluation? I wish you all the best with your CI journey.

I have to call ENT doctor for CI professional. I didn't know in my city have CI available recently. In Indianapolis have a Riley Children Hospital for CI surgery. I live in 130 miles away from Indianapolis. I hope the insurance will cover for CI.

 

[Hear Again]

I have to call ENT doctor for CI professional. I didn't know in my city have CI available recently. In Indianapolis have a Riley Children Hospital for CI surgery. I live in 130 miles away from Indianapolis. I hope the insurance will cover for CI.

Most insurance carriers cover CIs. However, I would call your insurance company just to be on the safe side.

 

[Hear Again]

Pinky,

If you check this website, you'll find 10 different CI centers in Indiana:

Find a Clinic

Hopefully one of them is close to you.

 

[Pinky]

Most insurance carriers cover CIs. However, I would call your insurance company just to be on the safe side.

Ok. Let me make my own thread. Let everyone post and polls.

 

[defgrl]

Hard Of Hearing and Feeling Okay About It

I am wearing BTEs in both ears. The last time I had my hearing tested, the audiologist failed to take me seriously. She did not do a hearing aid consult as she was supposed to. She seems to think that I am a Hearing person. But I flunked four of her tests. She seems to think I have something called Central Auditory Processing Disorder. I have cortical deafness. I have an entire book about this "disorder." I wear HA's because they help. This audiologist recommended a personal FM system. For what? And something called "Earobics." Honestly. She acts like I have a learning disability or something. I use an interpreter at my church for Sunday School every week. And I see a signing psychologist. I switched mobile phone providers and got a different phone because I COULD NOT HEAR on the other one. I am seeing a new family doctor soon-with an interpreter. So I do not MISS anything. I would MUCH RATHER have people see HA's than have them think I am "stupid" or worse yet "nuts." I think of myself as Hard-of-Hearing.

 

[Lavender]

Warning: Ci is not for Teen-Adult Prelingual Profound Deaf who were born deaf or never wear technically devices (hearing aids) or less than a few year.

 

[Hear Again]

I am wearing BTEs in both ears. The last time I had my hearing tested, the audiologist failed to take me seriously. She did not do a hearing aid consult as she was supposed to. She seems to think that I am a Hearing person. But I flunked four of her tests. She seems to think I have something called Central Auditory Processing Disorder. I have cortical deafness. I have an entire book about this "disorder." I wear HA's because they help. This audiologist recommended a personal FM system. For what? And something called "Earobics." Honestly. She acts like I have a learning disability or something. I use an interpreter at my church for Sunday School every week. And I see a signing psychologist. I switched mobile phone providers and got a different phone because I COULD NOT HEAR on the other one. I am seeing a new family doctor soon-with an interpreter. So I do not MISS anything. I would MUCH RATHER have people see HA's than have them think I am "stupid" or worse yet "nuts." I think of myself as Hard-of-Hearing.

Some people with CAPD find FM systems helpful since they block out extraneous background noise which can make focusing and listening difficult.

If you feel more comfortable using a terp, by all means, I would continue to do so and not give second thought as to what others think. After all, the important thing is that you're able to find a way to access information you can't hear well.

 

[Hear Again]

In response to Lavender's post, while it is true that CIs are less effective for those who are prelingually Deaf, this is not always the case. In fact, I know a CI user who was born totally deaf and received a CI at age 18. She learned how to speak and now uses her CI to the fullest extent possible. Having said that, it's very important to have realistic expectations. Getting a CI does not mean you will be able to automatically understand everything once you are activated. It takes time to learn how to understand what is heard through the CI and sometimes this can take 2 years or longer for someone who is prelingually Deaf.

 

[DJYumene]

I am hard of hearing; I have HA's but I don't wear them that much. I have a Phonak(I think) ... um; but on it it says: Telex Act I/II (it's a cros HA that I got when I was a kid; I am deaf on my right ear).

 

[Frisky Feline]

Ha!

 

[JClarke]

tinnitus while you wear hearing aids like you hear ringing louder than sound you're hearing through hearing aids or after you take it off you get loud ringing? just wondering

When I wear my hearing aids for the first time in 4 years after my first retirement in 2003, I got an bad tinnitus, but when I talk, I could hear myself talk loud

Wait a minute..

thats impossible if you wore hearing aids, your nerve connected to brain is working fine.

i think you might've misunderstood them maybe they meant hearing nerves in the cochlea not the brainstem nerves.

and 10 years ago and today is very different doctor and audiologist is more informed so it wont hurt to ask them again if you want to

You're right, it is impossible. I will have another discussion with my mum, she knows a lot about my hearing condition, I believe she doesn't tell me much :roll:

I have mentioned, I am in contact with the audi at the cochlear centre in Sydney.

If I want to get batteries from my CI audiologist, she has to process it through my insurance carrier first. Instead of dealing with all of the insurance hassles, I pay for them myself in bulk online. I set aside a certain amount of money every month specifically for CI batteries and make sure I'm well stocked so that I never have to worry about running out. Given how much my CIs have benefitted me, I'd say it's well worth the cost.

How much did you cover for the batteries?

Dude, you're not alone, I was told that I couldn't get one of these CI's back in 1999. Due to the nerves connected to the brain or whatnot are damaged.

This quote I wrote is lame, so lame-ness.

 

[Hear Again]

jake,

if i remember correctly, i pay about $190 for 4 boxes of batteries (power one implant plus because i need the extra power for my high power maps).

however, i'm currently working with my ci audi to have medicaid cover the cost so they can reimburse me.