Ci

[Sosie]

Wow... I have noticed that almost all ad'ers already have a CI (or two) but I just wanted to know how many you already have a CI or two. I lost counting.
For myself, I am not a CI user. I was not a candidate enough for a CI, according to a famous Dr. William House because I can hear (and plus nerve damages...). 40 dB in my left ear and 50 dB in my right ear. (I remember my mother learned it from TV news, she wrote him a letter about my deafness, my hearing tests and so on... 6 mos. later, she got a letter from him saying that I was not a candidate enough, etc, that upsets her and she showed me his letter when I came home from school. When I read it and that makes me so angry. I told my mother that she still doesn't accept that I am deaf. I ran out and crying all day. My mother wrote me a beautiful long letter to say sorry, and so forth when I came home and found it on my bed. I was crying so hard. She stated that she was trying to help me since she's a RN at the time and that she loves me so much. So, I accepted her apology after reading the letter. That was in 1972.
Last spring, I had a hearing test by an Audiologist and she said that I lost a lot. 70 dB in my left ear... and 90 dB in my right ear, due to my age (or possibly caused by medications but I have no proof. Or caused by rock concerts.. I still get tinnitus. I found this very frustrating!!!). I can hear very, very little in my right ear. Almost totally deaf. She was surprised that I speak very well, like hearing people.. and asked me about this. I told her that I had a speech therapist for 14 years, which was not easy. The audio suggested me to get a HA in my good left ear. I said no because the hearing aids do have artificial sounds, and plus I can hear statics in the background. So, it's not my cup of tea. She was surprised to hear when I mentioned that, she encouraged me to think about it and also, she wants me to contact her anytime.

 

[Hear Again]

hi sosie,

i have bilateral ci's. i've had my first ci since december, 2004 and my second since february, 2006.

if you have a 70 dB loss in your left ear and a 90 dB loss in your right ear, you may be considered a "borderline" ci candidate. a person must have severe-profound hearing loss in both ears and speech discrimination (with hearing aids in the best aided conditions) of 40% or less to qualify for a ci.

 

[Bottesini]

No CI here. 90db left ear (used to be 70) & 70-75 right ear. Plus auditory nerve damage.

And as Hear Again says even with out bad nerve I would be borderline as I have hearing.

 

[vallee]

Sosie,

I'm bilateral Advanced Bionics. I had both ears done July 2007. When I tested 7 years ago, I was not a candiate because of too much speech recognition. After a few years, my hearing decreased to finally I was a candiate. I'm not sure of my overall degree of loss. I will have to look that up.

 

[vallee]

okay I looked it up. I thought my right ear was worst, but both ears where about the same. Right at 100 db in both ears. I did not have any sound after 100 hz. With hearing aids I was able to hear around 70hz across the line. With my bilateral CIs, I hear around the 25 to 30 db range.

 

[Hear Again]

okay I looked it up. I thought my right ear was worst, but both ears where about the same. Right at 100 db in both ears. I did not have any sound after 100 hz. With hearing aids I was able to hear around 70hz across the line. With my bilateral CIs, I hear around the 25 to 30 db range.

same here except that my left ear started at 95 dB at 250 Hz with no residual hearing aided or unaided at 1000 Hz and above. my right ear started at 90 dB with no residual hearing aided or unaided at 1000 Hz or above. my dB with hearing aids was 60 dB in the low frequencies and 70 dB at 750 Hz. as for my ci hearing, i hear 15 dB in the low frequencies and between 20 and 30 dB for the mid and high frequencies.

 

[faire_jour]

Miss Kat was about 60 db at 250 hz and then she fell down to 90 at 500 and 1000 and then 105 at 2000 and then 90 again at 4000.

That was all unaided. Now with just her CI she hears between 15-25 across all frequencies.

 

[shel90]

No Cis here. Been deaf with 120 dB loss in both ears.

 

[cdmeggers]

I don't have CIs yet but do want to get one for my left ear if it's possible.

 

[DeafDoc1]

No CIs, and hearing loss of 110-120 up to 1000 Hz, nothing above. Speech discrim is 0. I haven't ruled out the possibility, but now is not the right time for me.

 

[overthepond]

Right CI and left HA (sometimes!) Right- ski slope 95db at 250hz to 120 db at 1000hz no response after that and left - starts at 120db at 250hz, no response after 500hz.

At 3 month after switch on right ear with CI 30/35 db across board. I am into my 4 and half months now

In UK we as adults are not permissed to have 2 CI's unless we have other problem like blindness/or physcial problems.

 

[Lissa]

I have just the one ci and unaided my right ear starts at 90 db and goes down to 120db. I was borderline for a CI at 5 years old and got a CI aged 10!With my ci i am now down to 35 db!

 

[Sosie]

hi sosie,

i have bilateral ci's. i've had my first ci since december, 2004 and my second since february, 2006.

if you have a 70 dB loss in your left ear and a 90 dB loss in your right ear, you may be considered a "borderline" ci candidate. a person must have severe-profound hearing loss in both ears and speech discrimination (with hearing aids in the best aided conditions) of 40% or less to qualify for a ci.

Hi Hear Again,
Thank you for explaining me this but that was 1972. Of course, I will talk it with the audi when I get back home from Costa Rica. Thanks again.

 

[Sosie]

Sosie,

I'm bilateral Advanced Bionics. I had both ears done July 2007. When I tested 7 years ago, I was not a candiate because of too much speech recognition. After a few years, my hearing decreased to finally I was a candiate. I'm not sure of my overall degree of loss. I will have to look that up.

Hi Vallee,
I will speak it with the audi, to find out whether I am a candidate. So, stay tuned.

 

[Sosie]

No Cis here. Been deaf with 120 dB loss in both ears.

Can you hear anything without your HAs at all? Don't you mind my asking?

I can hear very well in my left ear but I can not hear well in my right ear. I can hear by using the headphone to listen the music thru my laptop while I am typing you.

 

[Hear Again]

Hi Vallee,
I will speak it with the audi, to find out whether I am a candidate. So, stay tuned.

that's great, sosie. make sure you go to a ci center because most "regular" audis don't fully understand the citeria for ci candidacy. the audi who fitted me with my first pair of hearing aids in 1985 told me that with a 90+ dB loss, I *could* be accepted as a ci candidate, but she didn't know for sure. as it turned out, i failed all of my hearing tests with flying colors.

 

[Hear Again]

Hi Hear Again,
Thank you for explaining me this but that was 1972. Of course, I will talk it with the audi when I get back home from Costa Rica. Thanks again.

you're welcome.

what is your current degree of hearing loss?

 

[VamPyroX]

No cochlear implants for me.

I hear very well with my left ear (with a BTE hearing aid). My right ear is unusual. With a hearing aid, I can hear things... but I can't perceive what the sound is.

With my left ear, I could tell if someone was calling my name. With my right ear, I hear something... but I don't know if it's someone calling my name or even know if it's someone saying something.

 

[naisho]

No cochlear implants for me.

I hear very well with my left ear (with a BTE hearing aid). My right ear is unusual. With a hearing aid, I can hear things... but I can't perceive what the sound is.

With my left ear, I could tell if someone was calling my name. With my right ear, I hear something... but I don't know if it's someone calling my name or even know if it's someone saying something.

Wow, you sound like my bizarro opposite.

OK with the right ear with HA, but when I attempt to hear things out of the left in any form, everything's like muffled or really toned down to the point I can't distinguish clarity, only the fact that the sound's there. It's like someone pushing their mouth on a really bad microphone and it is all blared out in indistinguishable audio. The type that makes people say "What?"

 

[Hear Again]

OK with the right ear with HA, but when I attempt to hear things out of the left in any form, everything's like muffled or really toned down to the point I can't distinguish clarity, only the fact that the sound's there. It's like someone pushing their mouth on a really bad microphone and it is all blared out in indistinguishable audio. The type that makes people say "What?"

this perfectly describes the hearing i had bilaterally for 10 years prior to receiving ci's. the only exception is that i always needed people to speak very loud to me so that i was aware of the fact they were talking.