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Curious, anyone of you who have CI. Do you not mind if someone touches your head or hair where the scars position were?
Just curious.
I think the OP was originally looking for the experience of CI users with regard to having the implant site touched, physically (she quickly clarified this to mean when someone strokes or hugs the person when bbb asked if she meant discomfort when the implant area is shown to others or physical touching).
So, Cloggy has a really good (and very much on-topic) point: IF the CI is on when hugging is going on, the issue of the CI engaging could be a factor if it's knocked off or aside in the process and someone is sensitive to that change. My daughter has described the first wearing the morning as being very loud initially, and then normalizing, and then, she says, she doesn't get the same startling effect each time it's on and off later in the day. But, since we've upgraded to the N5, she gets a beeping and sudden rush of loud sound at first every time she changes programs, from her everyday program to a music program, or to what we call her 'chaos' program (for loud restaurants, airplanes, concerts, etc.).
But if it's off, that wouldn't be the case. Again, my daughter loves the area around/over her implant being rubbed, she doesn't mention the scar down along the back of her ear -- which is in a different area from where we can feel the implant, itself -- as being either sensitive in any way or a place she wants me to touch (as she does the sides of her head: "that's my favorite!").
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