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wow, u all need to calm down!  Can I just say that I have been to two CI evaluations about 5 years apart and I was not pressured into it.  I was asked if I knew what they were and if I would be interested in going for testing.  First time I was told I benefit from HA to the point I can understand speech so he did not recommend it because he flat out told me I would be deaf if I had it and it does not always work the way they plan for it to.  Since I have progressive loss to wait and see where technology brings us when I can no longer benefit from HA. Recently went back for CI eval and I do qualify now I can hear enough to lip read but I can not understand speech with out lipreading. Was explained to all the side effects and told to research and also was given info on how to contact other people with CI and picnics and such and was given my surgeons email if I had any questions or concerns.  Not everyone out there is looking to just get paid. You make it sound like they are doing it to benefit them. Although I did learn in my research that they have lessoned the qualifications of hearing loss to get the CI in between my two appt. and I found that odd. But they say with being late deafened the earlier you get it the better because if you wait until your ears are dead like my one is *(and they wanted to do the one I could hear out of) then it is less likely to have  as big of an effect because there are no longer signals being sent through the nerve to the brain. I am rambling now but that is my experience with the CI, doesn't matter anyway for me cuz the damn insurance won't cover it anyway.